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Why Didn't KSKY Upgrade?

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Towerjunky

I'm wondering what prevented KSKY from upgrading to 50 KW. KTNN Window Rock was able to sign on in the mid 80s with 50 KW full time.
 
Towerjunky said:
I'm wondering what prevented KSKY from upgrading to 50 KW. KTNN Window Rock was able to sign on in the mid 80s with 50 KW full time.
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KTNN was one of the "gray area" assignments when the clear channels were "broken down" in areas with inadequate AM coverage. It would be hard for a Dallas station to serve much gray area... The closest new assignments on clears were Guymon, OK and Roswell, NM.
 
I don't see anything in the way of KSKY increasing its daytime power to 50kw, other than the possibility of tweaking the directional pattern or some sort of critical hours reduction. Perhaps they are satisfied with the coverage of the current 20kw signal. I doubt that the 700 watt night signal could be improved without a more complicated directional array, perhaps at a separate site. Probably not worth it.

The current 20kw daytime signal gets out quite well. I can hear it in Houston, and it also is listenable in Amarillo. I have also heard it in Tucumcari, New Mexico at noon underneath KTNN.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
I don't see anything in the way of KSKY increasing its daytime power to 50kw, other than the possibility of tweaking the directional pattern or some sort of critical hours reduction. Perhaps they are satisfied with the coverage of the current 20kw signal. I doubt that the 700 watt night signal could be improved without a more complicated directional array, perhaps at a separate site. Probably not worth it.

The current 20kw daytime signal gets out quite well. I can hear it in Houston, and it also is listenable in Amarillo. I have also heard it in Tucumcari, New Mexico at noon underneath KTNN.
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It is very strong in Lubbock - almost static free and that static was probably not due to a weak signal. Predictably, it was about 4 times stronger than KMKI before KMKI fired up HD - and when WBAP was fooling around with IBOC - it was even stronger than WBAP. Other strong DFW signals in West Texas are KLIF, KAAM. The present day KXFR - formerly KLIF the mighty 1190, was fairly strong in Midland, but almost absent in Lubbock. KRLD also makes it out to West Texas, but has always been fairly weak. Now that they are using IBOC - they are probably absent.
 
KTNN was a very unusual situation, I was with Media General when they signed on and handled CA, UT NV and AZ. KTNN called me and needed a production library,,in talking to them they told me they were 50kw clear channel,,,I said there hadn't been a clear channel license issued since the 30's (that was a guess), ,,,it turned out that particular signal/frequency had been reserved for the Navajo tribe, and they finally wanted to use it. I went to visit them,,, this was in the mid 80's. It was a very unusual stations,,,one problem with doing business with them, since it was licensed to the Navajo tribe on the reservation, we couldn't sue them if they stopped paying us (leased service),,and we couldn't go get the production library,,,I had never seen a situation like this before
 
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