Re: [IRCA] 1400

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

Scott:

You're right and that's a point I should've made too.

KIYU-AM 910 Galena, Alaska is/was silent because of the extreme cost of fuel
to power their generator, they filed for an got an STA to light up about a
dozen low power FM's in their local communities.

I can't believe I missed the few directional AM's there were in Alaska,
saying there were none. .I knew better!

Paul


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
>
>> The caveat.. they could go to 50KW if they wanted and it fit.
>>
>> 770 in Valdez could go to 50KW too probably
>>
>
> There's one big reason Alaskan AMs aren't rushing to increase power, even
> when they could: the cost of power for transmitters is insane up there.
> We're accustomed to paying somewhere between 7 and 20 cents per
> kilowatt-hour here in the lower 48; it can easily cost four to five times
> that much on the Last Frontier, especially if stations have to generate
> their own in remote places like Nome.
>
>
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