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« Reply #40 on: May 09, 2012, 07:53:00 AM » |
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Well, XYT is one of several 9-tower arrays, but there are several 8-tower jobs, an 11-tower and a ten-tower too. Talk about maintenance....yikes....I've got five, and that's enough, thanks.
Dave Hultsman told the story about when KLIF Dallas was building their 12-tower monster back in 1969 - the station already had separate day and night sites. So there were the 12 new sticks, the 4-tower 50kw daytime array, plus the existing 5-tower 1kw night site - a total of 21 towers for one station (until they decommissioned the old night site!)
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« Reply #41 on: May 09, 2012, 11:11:09 AM » |
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I think some California station(s) has/have three active sites, one for critical hours.
Wonder if the Dallas pattern was relaxed or power increased when WOWO was downgraded.
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« Reply #42 on: May 09, 2012, 12:46:28 PM » |
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Some interesting information from older posts in the Alaska forum:
Speaking of Critical Hours, the most unusual Critical Hours authorization in the country is probably religious station KICY in Nome, AK, which claims to be the only commercial radio station in the United States licensed by the FCC to broadcast into another country (Russian Siberia) in their own language. Between 11pm and 4am, KICY throws all 50,000 watts westward into Siberia.
The KICY directional antenna is not a critical hours facility as usually defined, but if you read their application on CDBS, you see a comment that indicates they put the DA parameters in the Critical Hours box because there was nowhere else to put it on the forms. That doesn't mean they use those facilities during the two hours after sunrise and the two hours before sunset - they use it during hours specified in the license.
KICY is normally ND day and night at 50KW, with authority to be directional 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. into the Russian Far East. There's a huge lobe that envelopes Russia when they go directional.
I just found this to be interesting –
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« Reply #43 on: May 09, 2012, 02:59:46 PM » |
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Only issue is that KICY is on 850 and new digital radios in Siberia only tune as close as 846 and 855.
Only frequencies common to both band plans are 540, 630, 720, 810, 900, 990, 1080, 1170, 1260, 1350, 1440, 1530, and maybe 1620.
Speaking of Russia, there used to be a Soviet station in the Baltics with an eight tower array (four next to four) with a forward ERP of something like 28 megawatts.
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« Reply #44 on: May 10, 2012, 08:45:03 AM » |
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Boy this thread got hijacked.
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« Reply #45 on: May 10, 2012, 08:06:56 PM » |
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Yeah but they are not talking about WINK 1200 going to 50,000 watts they were talking about other AM stations are on 50,000 watts. Let go back to the topice theme here.
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« Reply #46 on: May 20, 2012, 06:29:11 PM » |
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It may have gotten hijacked, but it is a very interesting thread.  |
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