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Re: [IRCA] 990 UNID
Pete- at first I thought that it couldn't possibly be KTMS, one of my
locals. However after looking at the FCC web site I think it has to be. I
was unaware that one of their towers was damaged in a fire a few months ago.
They have an engineering STA for 1/4 of their night power (125 watts) on
their day pattern (which favors your direction while protecting KFWB) until
the damage is repaired. Their night pattern protects KATD so that's why
you're not used to hearing them.
I've been up to their site since the fire but I thought the fire stopped at
their fence line. However not all of the tower bases can be seen from
outside their gate. Here's the application for the STA:
https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=762327&formid=911&q_num=5150
Here are their day and night patterns:
http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/118494-4626.pdf
http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/125918-4627.pdf
A local friend has some pictures of the site after the fire and uploaded
them to his Flicr site. I'll send you direct the links to them.
73
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Taylor" <ptdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "IRCA of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:36 PM
Subject: [IRCA] 990 UNID
Spent a long weekend in beautiful Chelan, WA 8/23-26. It's not quite far
enough away from Seattle to get something under KIRO or KOMO but all the
other Puget Sounders are chopped up pretty good. One mystery:
990 UNID EE talk programming mixing with CBW right around 10pm PDT 8/25.
I was expecting an XE since I used to hear that from time to time before
KOMO widened its audio processing. Didn't seem to be religious. Not a
whole lot of options based on coverage maps. Just could scrape out in ID.
My guess is KTMS.
Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA (home base)
ICF2010 + Palomar loop
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