From: mikesanburn@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:25:30 -0700
Subject: Re: [IRCA] DX Tip
'Would love to hold an IRCA Convention in Alaska someday......ms
> From: wb6tnb@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:10:33 -0700
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] DX Tip
>
> That is the KTKN tower. On an FCCInfo.com map the tower is between
> Stedman Street, where Rob and I saw it, and the harbor. The closest AM
> transmitter site is in Canada.
>
> The FM antenna is left over from when that was KGTW's main transmitter
> site. It moved to High Mountain, 7 miles west of Ketchikan, in 2001. It
> is not an auxiliary. The auxiliary is at the current site.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Oct 7, 2014, at 7:06 AM, "Paul B. Walker, Jr."
> > <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like the tower behind the station is got KGTW, their country
> > station on 106.7 with 440W at 2185 feet. .and that the AM tower is
> > somewhere else.
> >
> > How far from the station is the AM tower?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Dennis Gibson <wb6tnb@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> I took these photos in September of 2006 while on a cruise from
> >> Seattle to
> >> Alaska.
> >>
> >> Rob - does the studio building still look like this?
> >>
> >>
> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcgibson55/3634716346/in/set-72157619807294788
> >>
> >> I was just getting started with taking tower photos so some aren't
> >> level.
> >>
> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcgibson55/sets/72157621802612724/
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:33 PM, Robert Ross <va3sw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 2014-10-06, at 11:12 PM, Patrick Martin wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> 930 KTKN AK, Ketchikan, good on top with weather, rain showers,
> >> into AC type music "Your Hometown Station, KTKN" and "AM 930 KTKN"
> >>>> At 0306 UTC 10/7. (PM-OR)
> >>>>
> >>>> Drake R8
> >>>> NW EWE
> >>>> Patrick Martin
> >>>> Seaside OR
> >>>> KGED QSL Manager
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Patrick…..I just walked past that station at 526 Stedman Street on
> >>> Sept
> >> 3rd while we were in Alaska on a Cruise. Our first stop was
> >> Ketchikan.
> >> While walking down the main drag in Ketchikan, I spotted KTKN's
> >> Studios,
> >> which also houses KGTW FM on 106.7. I took a Photo of the front of
> >> the
> >> building with the 2 Station's signs on it. The Tower for the station
> >> is
> >> located right behind the station!!! I thought I recognized that KTKN
> >> Call
> >> when you posted this!
> >>>
> >>> 73…ROB VA3SW
> >>>
> >>> Robert S. Ross
> >>> London, Ontario CANADA
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