Re: [IRCA] Arizona Stations Off

[Dennis Gibson <wb6tnb@xxxxxxx>]

Yes it is. They're getting out a lot better than I expected from that new site. I image that the ground conductivity isn't great there. They put a really decent signal into Santa Barbara during the day and gives KTNN a run for its money at night. You can get a tour of its new site near Bakersfield here:

http://www.fybush.com/sites/2009/site-090501.html

Not long before they moved to the new site something weird happened. I can't describe it but they had to have had both sites on at the same time.

They diplexed off KSBQ-1480 for quite awhile. The FCC dismissed their application to do that but they did it anyway. Several generations of that family have had radio stations and they pretty much did whatever they pleased regardless of what the FCC said. I snapped a few photos of that diplex setup (and a few other towers):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcgibson55/sets/72157621773577091/detail

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcgibson55/sets/72157621773577091/show 

KGDP was dark for quite awhile. They hadn't been on from their new site very long before the money ran out and they pulled the plug. They just barely got the site built before their CP was going to expire. I remember hearing them their first day on from Santa Maria, which was July 4, 1988. They asked for phone calls to see how far away they were being received.

I took a couple of photos of their original site, which they were kicked out of for not paying the rent. Didn't you ask me to photograph that site? They moved to another site before KSBQ without asking if that was OK.

73

---- Mike Sanburn <mikesanburn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> Isn't KGDP 660 now KWVE??!!  I was just listening to KTNN the other night with Navajo chants. Weather here has been horrible with rain, lightning, hail, waterspouts, etc...Mike Sanburn
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