KKJZ Long Beach Tour

[@vote4carp]

Oh man, I just subscribed and gobbled up the transmitter site playlist, and now I'm treated with this!? Awesome! Thank you for sharing.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Thanks for watching!!

[@jaymzx0]

I'm not from the area, but I could listen to xrey tell stories for hours. I love his enthusiasm.

[@twwtb]

I have been listening to KKJZ for decades...going back to Chuck Niles' day. Pick them up easily all around OC and sometimes heading south toward SJC and San Clemente. Love hearing David Benoit, Rhonda Hamilton, Jose Rizo and many other great voices hosting. Best radio in LA, OC and the web IMO.

[@martyhill8342]

Interesting...I listen to KKJZ via the web. It may be one of the best Jazz stations in the country. Thank you.

[@nicholaskalogris9985]

Love seeing a historic transmitter site!

[@nicholaskalogris9985]

It would be great if you can visit the Mount Beacon Transmission site in New York State. It is the home of the Hudson Valley’s first FM Radio Station, WSPK (K104.7FM) as well as military and government uses. It has been there since 1947.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

@@nicholaskalogris9985 I’ll add that to my list if I ever get that way!

[@CuttinChopps]

Seems like a great chief! Cool and sharp!

[@rkmklz7562]

I remember signal Hill ...KLON FM 88... Jazz and Information radio.....KNOB FM 98....K Nob ...the TV station was KBIC TV 22.... operation was by Carl Baldy.. owner of KBIG 740am and FM 104.3fm....avalon Catalina Island 🏝️....in the 1950s and 1960s KBIC TV 22 was in the 1950s and 1960s...doing a time UHF was only a few channels...😮

[@grayrabbit2211]

@8:18 -- Some 30 years ago I slapped a Sony ES car radio in a rack-mount plate at our new studios, which were well outside the reception range for our newly acquired 3kW (5kW?) FM station. It started as a joke, with me saying, "well, I can pick it up fine in my car in the parking lot...We'll just tell people they have to do their shows from their cars." The next day I'm buying the car stereo at SoundAdvice and installing it in our studio rack and slapping a cut-down (coil removed) CB antenna on the roof. That became our air monitor for years, even making it through a few major hurricanes.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Haha! Thats awesome! In the early HD Radio days we did the same thing except mounted it in a box so we could move it around. It never quite worked right but just good enough to do what we wanted.

[@rkmklz7562]

I been on Signal Hill when I was a boy and a teenager.... have been in K Nob fm 98.. studios in the 1970s....my dad used to go up there in the 1960s....Hill Top Bar used to be up there tooo😮 a lot of Long Beach Memories we have 😊... bring back K Nob FM 98... dump the garbage 🗑️ is on it now

[@pjosephlthewonder5082]

I remember viewing Signal Hill when I was stationed at the now gone Long Beach Naval Station. Most the radio stations from then are most likely not there anymore. I truly do not recall what stations I did then listen to. But I am weird that I like to know what antenna is doing what. Peace

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

KKJZ One of Shango's test stations

[@gwharton68]

Wish I could receive KKJZ. I Live in the Crescenta Valley an I can not receive KKJZ. If I stand on the the roof of my house I can see the towers on Signal Hill, but I can't receive KKJZ clear enough to want to listen. maybe someday. Used to listen to KNOB back in the day when they were on Adams Blvd.

[@johnmoloney5296]

Happy new year Marcus

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Happy New Year! I can’t believe it’s already 2025.

[@donhall2759]

Now I have to go to Long Beach so I can hear what a station sounds like with minimal processing...just a Compellor? The last time I tried that, the jocks almost mutineed!

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

@@donhall2759 I think that was one of the HD channels not the main signal.

[@VickyGeagan]

Tell Dave thank-you for the tour. Also say hello to Ben Fuke and Joel Wallek for me. Sad that Art died. Larry Nelson and John Garabedian give their best also.

[@xavierg.]

On the line of sight, did you used the dish using 500Mhz signal to send the audio?

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

It would have been a 950 MHz link, more than likely.

[@xreyengineering9073]

I'd have to look up the exact frequency, but it was def a 950 STL. (iHeart now has that hard-to-get frequency.) If possible, I'd be using it as a back-up link for 22 West Radio (formerly "K-Beach"), but it's impossible to see Signal Hill from the roof of their three-story USU building. Believe me, I tried. Had K-Jazz not moved from their original building on campus in 2014, the STL path would have become problematic in maybe a year as a grove of trees on the V.A. Hospital property next door were growing directly in the path, reducing reception at the transmitter site.

[@brianmoss5483]

KKJZ is cool but we had the OG kjaz alameda. Ca.

[@FSR-v9c]

Looks like a cluttered un kempt transmitter sight,

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

@@FSR-v9c What does yours look like? It’s organized. Maybe “cluttered” in that there’s a lot of stuff there, but not unkempt.

[@JoeyShelby78]

Re-upload? or a different video?

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Kind of. There were some edits that needed to be made.

[@JoeyShelby78]

@TheBroadcastEngineer cool! appreciate your videos!!

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Thanks! Yeah, the owner of the site requested a couple of things be removed from the video. In an effort to not try to embarrass anyone, I removed them.

[@whuffer5103]

@@TheBroadcastEngineer oh i saw it hahahaha

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Shhhh keep it secret keep it safe.

[@mxcollin95]

I hope this place made it through the fires.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

This place is on Signal Hill in Long Beach. It’s pretty far away from the fires.

[@ThumperKJFK]

[@leftymuller]

Harris did make a Z10cd and a Z10 platinum ... and Omnia 11... yuck

[@leftymuller]

and guys... im not sure if that IP on the omnia 11 is correct but I wouldnt be advertising it if that ip is used and real

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

It’s not open. I checked.

[@coreybabcock2025]

Wish the money spent on this stuff would go to us who are homeless

[@ScuffedRadio]

@@coreybabcock2025 nah

[@coreybabcock2025]

@ScuffedRadio tyrant

[@grayrabbit2211]

California has spent $42 BILLION dollars on "homeless" in the past 10 years. $42,000,000,000.00. Go find work. I've lived out of my car before. I'm now looking at buying a new airplane. Working 80+ hours a week sucks, but it can be done. Even if you're not in the best of health.