Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] `KBOX` 1480 back in Dallas

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

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Paul

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Patrick Martin <mwdxer1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> QSL'd KBOX back in the 60s from Oregon.
>
> Patrick
>
> On 3/3/16, Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ** U S A. 1480, March 4 at 0120 UT, big dominant signal from NNW/SSE with
> > bluegrass, then classic country seguÃs, next at 0121 UT being ``Hey,
> > Porter`` about a train ride. It must be the reactivated KBXD in Dallas,
> > whose new format is yet to be determined; stunting for now?
> >
> > After another tune or two, at 0129 UT, singing ID ``Wonderful K-Box in
> > Dallas, Texas hits too, go-go-go``, then coal-mine song; several more
> songs,
> > no announcements, let alone commercials. 0147 UT, ``Wonderful K-Box in
> > Dallas, a-go-go, souvenirs, oh oh oh oh ----`` and a second one
> immediately,
> > ``Super-hit go-go sounds of wonderful K-Box in Dallas``.
> >
> > Blowing away my closer 1480, KQAM Wichita, but occasionally pokes thru
> > during Dallas fades, as it`s wrapping up a silly ballgame from the
> K-State
> > Wildcats Network. KQAM gains more and more from 0155 UT to 0200 UT such
> that
> > I can`t get a legal ID if any from the otherstation.
> >
> > Of course, this is not KBOX, but currently called KBXD, obviously in
> tribute
> > to the heyday rocker of 50 years ago, which just reactivated a few days
> ago,
> > after a rocky ownership transfer involving access to the transmitter
> site;
> > it`s been upgraded to 50/1.9 kW, and I seriously suspect it must have
> been
> > on 50 kW day power until 0155 UT. Official night hours in March for KBXD
> > are: 0030 UT-1245 UT.
> >
> > 50 kW day pattern major lobe is to the NW but still plenty to the NNW:
> >
> https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1547811-120922.pdf
> >
> > 1.9 kW night pattern has six lobes, major one still to the NW but tighter
> > now with one of the six nulls toward Wichita:
> >
> https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1547811-120923.pdf
> >
> > As for KBOX, those were the heritage calls of 1480 Dallas, but FCC
> callsign
> > history only goes back to 1989, showing that KBXD is the seventh one
> since
> > then. There is now no KBOX anywhere on AM, but FCC has a KBOX on FM
> 104.1 in
> > Lompoc CA. pdfs of ancient history cards at FCC show that 1480 Dallas
> > started in 1952 as KGKO, and became KBOX in 1959.
> >
> > During its previous period of reactivity a couple years ago, KBXD was
> making
> > a heavy SAH with KQAM, but now the frequency has been adjusted closer,
> due
> > to a Harris DX50 replacing the solid-state Nautel. KBXD was on for a few
> > days in December to prove they existed in 2015y, so are they now on to
> stay?
> > (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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