Re: [IRCA] DA's in Alaska, was 1400

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are a few directional stations in Alaska.

KRSA-580 is DA1 with main lobes N-S
KOAN-1020 is DA-N with most power going NE&SW
KICY, as Patrick mentioned, uses a DA after midnight to broadcast to Russia
The Anchorage station on 650 had a DA to protect WSM when it came on the 
air in 1969.  The call at the time was KYAK.  The station is now 
non-directional.

There's no shortage of vacant land in Alaska, the least densely 
populated state, but tower construction is difficult and costly.  Plus 
there's not much need for DA's up there given the state's remote location.

Bruce

On 12/12/2010 6:17 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
> There are no directional AM's in Alaska and probably never will be.. land is
> extremely hard to come by and what little you can find, is hard to build on.
>
> KIAL had a CP to go to 4.2KW, still on 1450, but never built it out.. that
> would've required a full 1/4 wave tower, albleit a big improvement over the
> whip antenna and 50W they'd been using before years until shutting the AM
> off and going to FM only.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Patrick Martin<mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > 770 Valdez is heard here often even wih their current power. I wonder if
> > any would have to be directional to protect US or Canadian stations?
> >
> > Patrick Martin
> > Seaside OR
> > KGED QSL Manager

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