Narrative:

Aircraft 1 IFR inbound to bfl on the arvin 1 arrival via gmn VOR and had very poor to no radio coverage in this area. We generally have to wait until all aircraft entering our airspace from the south are about 5-10 miles inside our airspace for radio contact. Which makes for an extremely unsafe situation. We were unable to get a hold of this IFR aircraft inbound to bfl until he was inside our airspace. Radio coverage in the southern portion of bfl's airspace is absolutely horrible. It is steadily getting worse since I have been at this facility. We can't hear the aircraft and they can't hear us. We either need a new transmitter/receiver for frequency 118.8 or we need to move the transmitter. Repairs have been done on the antenna's; receiver's; and transmitter's however it is all a temporary fix.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: BFL ATCS reports radio communication problems in southern portion of airspace on frequency 118.8.

Narrative: Aircraft 1 IFR inbound to BFL on the ARVIN 1 arrival via GMN VOR and had very poor to no radio coverage in this area. We generally have to wait until all aircraft entering our airspace from the south are about 5-10 miles inside our airspace for radio contact. Which makes for an extremely unsafe situation. We were unable to get a hold of this IFR aircraft inbound to BFL until he was inside our airspace. Radio coverage in the southern portion of BFL's airspace is absolutely HORRIBLE. It is steadily getting worse since I have been at this facility. We can't hear the aircraft and they can't hear us. We either need a new transmitter/receiver for frequency 118.8 or we need to move the transmitter. Repairs have been done on the antenna's; receiver's; and transmitter's however it is all a temporary fix.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.