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Author Topic: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?  (Read 1554 times)
Willis1000
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All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« on: September 15, 2008, 05:22:02 PM »

I haven't heard of anyone losing a radio tower.  Have you?
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Kabrich
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Re: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2008, 08:47:30 PM »

Stations outside Houston such as KTPI are not in great shape - tower is up....transmitter building just isnt there.....


https://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlBT2pBYTJnYU1LSkE9PQ
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Re: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2008, 02:00:11 AM »

Stations outside Houston such as KTPI are not in great shape - tower is up....transmitter building just isnt there.....


https://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlBT2pBYTJnYU1LSkE9PQ

   Thank you for the link.  Once you have it downloaded you can zoom in and really look around.  It's neat and sad at the same time.
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Re: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2008, 10:40:48 AM »

Yeah it seems KGBC's Tower did not survive the Hurricane and KYST seems to be in really bad shape in Texas city
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Re: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2008, 11:42:37 AM »

Stations outside Houston such as KTPI are not in great shape - tower is up....transmitter building just isnt there.....


https://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlBT2pBYTJnYU1LSkE9PQ

No wonder.... Almost every structure on Bolivar Peninsula was wiped off the face of the earth  Sad
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Re: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2008, 10:02:42 PM »

Up in Tomball, KSEV 700 has been running with reduced power during the day.  At last report they were running with the nighttime level of 1,000 watts since their generator wasn't powerful enough.

And interestingly, I've noticed that KGOW has been been running with higher power overnight, at least when I checked a couple of nights ago.  It seemed to be considerably more than their authorized 100 watts.  Granted, after midnight a station can do program tests with facilities at variance from what's on their license but what I heard had promos, commercials and all.  It was regular programming.
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Re: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2008, 09:51:13 AM »

Stations outside Houston such as KTPI are not in great shape - tower is up....transmitter building just isnt there.....


https://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlBT2pBYTJnYU1LSkE9PQ
I believe the chances of them rebuilding the facility is small. I assume that now, Univision will just wait on the pending application for KPTI to move to Winnie. Will make little sense to rebuild if they are granted the application to move, that is unless they don't own the place and are just leasing it, then it is up to the landlord, but even then, I don't see KPTI back on the air anytime soon.
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Re: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2008, 03:49:44 PM »

Up in Tomball, KSEV 700 has been running with reduced power during the day.  At last report they were running with the nighttime level of 1,000 watts since their generator wasn't powerful enough.

And interestingly, I've noticed that KGOW has been been running with higher power overnight, at least when I checked a couple of nights ago.  It seemed to be considerably more than their authorized 100 watts.  Granted, after midnight a station can do program tests with facilities at variance from what's on their license but what I heard had promos, commercials and all.  It was regular programming.

I heard 1560 quite clearly on the Gulf Freeway a few nights ago, and was definitely surprised.
A station I have not been hearing as clearly since the storm is 790 ... did they lose a tower? That strong lobe they put toward my area (League City/Friendswood) hasn't been nearly as strong; I was at Kroger at 45 and 518 a few nights ago and there was considerable Spanish-language interference in the background.
610 is still blasting toward the Gulf as usual. They put a heck of a lobe in my direction, at the expense of very poor reception up north.
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Re: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2008, 04:17:15 PM »

A nice write-up on the difficulties and outages faced by broadcasters is just out on the TAB site www.tab.org

Direct link to story here http://www.enewsbuilder.net/texasbroadcasters/e_article001207728.cfm?x=bdpy4Md,b6QKbJgr,w
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Re: All of Houston's towers stood up Ike?
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2008, 04:51:16 PM »

I noticed the HD was cut off on KKBQ or is it just on low power?  I also noticed the weekend of the storm The buzz's HD-2 channel was off Mix was off and Sunny's was off.  The subchannels was off but the HD signal was on.
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