[IRCA] KEOR 1120 on the air from OK

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** OKLAHOMA. OK`s newest AM radio station is on the air: 1120. This is the original KEOR 1110 in Atoka, SE Oklahoma, which was hijacked to Catoosa, Tulsa market, and frequency shifted in order to squeeze yet another AM station into The Metroplex, TX.

Heard Nov 3 from 1727 UT playing nothing but oldies cuts, segués, pauses ranging from 5 to 30 seconds, never any announcements, not even a legal ID at hourtop 1800, as I monitored until 1815. Why is it that new stations testing on the air think they can get away without legal IDs? Not off to a good start, but this is obviously what I am hearing, and DF fits.

Fair signal in Enid, some 200 km away, but splash at times from closer KLEY-1130 KS. Songs included Carrie Anne, I Get Around, Travelin` Man, Mother-in-Law, Surf City, World Without Love.

Per FCC listing, call is still KEOR, which should work for Tulsa too, as in eastern Oklahoma radio; 2.0 kW daytime, two-tower direxional; facility ID number 3651 to read all about it: 
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=3651
Which was extremely slow-loading, took some 5 minutes; is everybody looking it up already?

Pattern is more or less cardioid, major lobe at 185-190 degrees toward western Tulsa, minor lobe in opposite direxion, and null at 50 degrees toward KMOX (which has a poor groundwave signal across the Oxarx), and one to match at 325 degrees – would that be toward Portland or nothing in particular? SR/SS table for the coordinates shows 1300 and 2315 UT in November.

Radio-locator.com shows site is on North Peoria Avenue near 106 East Street North, which would be Tulsa terminology; tho COL is Catoosa, still gives address as a PO Box in Atoka! Tiger map via FCC shows location is actually next to Sperry, N of Tulsa, not Catoosa, which is NE of Tulsa. Address on record with FCC is yet another, 3633 FM 437, Rogers TX 76569 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


      

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