Re: [IRCA] 1520 in WA

[AM-DXer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW)]

Paul Walker said: Plus, towers for 1520Khz at 1/4 are only 150 feet so
building 3 or 4 towers would be fairly cheap and pretty easy.. and not
require a heckuva lotta land either.
//////
Cheap and easy? I doubt if my employer would agree with that statement
Paul. They just did exactly what you propose. After many months of
jumping through hoops for county board approval, environmental issues,
wildlife protection issues, etc they were finally able to build a new
1510 transmitter plant in a suburban area near Denver this past year.
This facility was merely an upgrade for an existing station. It has four
165-foot towers. They couldn't get county board approval for a site
until they finally agreed to lease space from the county itself. It is a
small piece of swampy property that contained several abandond gravel
pits and is located in a flood plain. It would probably have been
otherwise unused for eternity. The 30-year lease is about $5,000 a
month. One of the concessions they made to get the lease was that they
had to build a $200,000 facility for the county's maintenance operations
on adjacent property. The overall cost for building this transmitter
site was around $1 million.

BTW this is the same county that wouldn't approve construction of a
2,000 foot FM tower a couple years ago until the proposed tower owner
agreed to build a new control tower for the county owned airport. The
state-of-the-art control tower is the tallest one in the US.

Patrick Griffith, CBT CBNT CRO
Westminster CO
http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/
http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/

_______________________________________________
IRCA mailing list
IRCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca

Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers

For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org

To Post a message: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx