Re: [IRCA] 1590 KRSX Victorville CA logging

["Dennis Gibson" <wb6tnb@xxxxxxx>]

This thread has really caught on. Last year I was fortunate enough to entice 
Scott Fybush to drive all the way to the Central California Coast after NAB 
in Las Vegas. Most of you probably know at least something about him. He's a 
gifted radio historian, he runs the popular 100000watts.com web site, he has 
his own web site about broadcast happenings in New England (fybush.com; he 
lives in Rochester, NY but grew up in the Boston area) and is a freelance 
journalist specializing in broadcasting. I don't know how he does it all. 
We'd e-mailed for over a year but never met. His drive over here from Las 
Vegas took him through Victorville, and one of our many topics of discussion 
at dinner that evening was the 660 pirate. After seeing this thread take off 
I forwarded him everything that appears below. Scott's a busy guy to say the 
least and not an IRCA member, so I forward him IRCA postings that I think 
might interest him. He replied this morning and says there's some confusion 
here, and went on to explain. I have a policy of not forwarding private 
e-mails to mailing lists without the author's permission. Scott says that's 
no problem, so here's what he has to say about the Victorville situation:

"Just to clear up some confusion here -

1590 KRSX Victorville is a licensed station, 500 watts day and 131 watts 
night, ex-KCIN, KROY and KATJ (AM) - it's the very short tower right on the 
west side of 15 just north of the exit for downtown Victorville. It was 
easier to see before they built a sound barrier wall along that part of 15 a 
couple of years ago.

Clear Channel put the KRSX calls on 1590 a couple of years ago, in part - I 
think - to put pressure on the unlicensed "KRSX" to get off the air and stop 
stealing ad revenue from them! CC sold the station to its current owners not 
long afterward. But the 1590 has nothing at all to do with the old 660 
unlicensed operation..."

If you want to see what the results of my enticing him to drive over here 
were, have a look at these: 
http://www.fybush.com/sites/2004/site-041112.html and 
http://www.fybush.com/sites/2004/site-041119.html. We had a blast.

The convention is approaching, and I'm stoked. The only one I've attended 
was way back in 1997. I hope to meet lots of you there.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Hall" <timhall1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1590 KRSX Victorville CA logging


> So this is the same guy that used to operate KRSX-660? (it claimed to
> be 0.1w but it got out for about 20 miles; he sold commercials for $1
> apiece).  Route 66 magazine says he was the former owner of KMIN
> Grants, NM.
>
> 73, Tim
>
> On 7/14/05, Doug Pifer <oregon4wd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> Heard at 0400. Kind of a surprise catch for me on 1590. Daytime power is
>> listed at 500w and night time 131w. ND.(wadda-ya-think?)  Did hear the 
>> dual
>> ID as mentioned by MS in V42 # 29, the other station being 1320 KSDT 
>> Hemet,
>> CA and slogan "Que Buena".  This station (not necessarily the current
>> owners) was in trouble back in 2002 w/ the FCC, operating two 
>> un-authorized
>> stations.


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