albert the panther

Does anyone know where the place on Oahu is to get the best reception for
Hawaii Public Radio, KHPR?

mel

A digital cable connection will do it just about anywhere on the island.

judy

I dunno about best, but it's one of the very few stations I can get on
my radios in Kailua. I can get it on my stereo, clock radio, boom box
and walk man. Can't get KIPO on anything but the car radio, though.

albert the panther

I'm sure, but doesn't work too well with a portable radio.

Reception isn't good in Manoa, as I know too well, nor in most parts of
Ala Moana Beach Park. Oddly, it is fairly clear upstairs in the mall,
down by Sears, but there's no shade there in the afternoon which is what
I'm interested in.

blahlah-nospam

2/11/04 update:

"Following six weeks of sketchy reception for its O'ahu listeners, Hawai'i
Public Radio's new antenna atop Wiliwilinui Ridge went on line at 11:30 a.m.
yesterday, providing the most complete coverage the noncommercial station has
ever had, station general manager Michael Titterton said."

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/11/ln/ln37a.html

Yoda

eric_sadoyama

Aha! No wonder I saw all those crates and bits of equipment lying
around at the Wiliwilinui trailhead last month; it must've been the
staging area for the work on the antenna. Did the workers helicopter
in with the equipment, or did they have to hike in, I wonder?

albert the panther

Thanks for the pointer to the news about the improved antenna (I didn't
see that story when I, as usual, checked the on-line version of the
newspaper).

Alas, it doesn't seem to have made much difference to reception in
Manoa.

hawaiinewscom

I thought of this thread immediately upon hearing the news. I guess
the answer to Albert's question would be, then, somewhere above `Aina
Haina? Now if only they could give some juice to KIPO 89.3...

Here's HPR's page on the transmitter:

http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/khpr_xmtr.htm

Ryan

judy

AMEN! What's up with that?

hawaiinewscom

No idea. Actually, I've always been perplexed by the KHPR/KIPO split.
Specifically, the mix on both of news/talk content and music content.

While I like some NPR/HPR music programming, I'm a consumer mostly of
the news/talk component. And I find it strange that -- to follow the
news/talk stream -- I have to listen to KHPR in the early morning,
then switch to KIPO (when KHPR changes to music), then back to KHPR
(when KIPO goes back to music).

I figure it must be that, if they separated their audiences that
cleanly, each individual audience wouldn't be large enough to sustain
the station. Spreading the wealth to keep listenership numbers up or
something. The question is, which audience is the larger or more
active of the two?

Ryan