Re: [IRCA] 1520 in WA

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess it all depends on where you are.

i know we wouldn't have a problem adding another tower or two here... we've
got the land and not a heckuva lotta neighbors either.

PW




On 10/19/07, Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW <AM-DXer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Cheap and easy? I doubt if my employer would agree with that statement
> Paul. They just did exactly what you propose. After many months of
> jumping through hoops for county board approval, environmental issues,
> wildlife protection issues, etc they were finally able to build a new
> 1510 transmitter plant in a suburban area near Denver this past year.
> This facility was merely an upgrade for an existing station. It has four
> 165-foot towers. They couldn't get county board approval for a site
> until they finally agreed to lease space from the county itself. It is a
> small piece of swampy property that contained several abandond gravel
> pits and is located in a flood plain. It would probably have been
> otherwise unused for eternity. The 30-year lease is about $5,000 a
> month. One of the concessions they made to get the lease was that they
> had to build a $200,000 facility for the county's maintenance operations
> on adjacent property. The overall cost for building this transmitter
> site was around $1 million.
>
> BTW this is the same county that wouldn't approve construction of a
> 2,000 foot FM tower a couple years ago until the proposed tower owner
> agreed to build a new control tower for the county owned airport. The
> state-of-the-art control tower is the tallest one in the US.
>
> Patrick Griffith, CBT CBNT CRO
> Westminster CO
> http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/
> http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/
>
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