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KDOK's New Henderson Translator

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Chuck

K300CX is now on the air in Henderson. It's 107.9, rebroadcasting All Hit Radio, KDOK. If you are in the area, tune it in!
 
You rock, Chuck. Local is how radio is supposed to be done. Funny thing is, you're getting bigger and better. Let's see what the people who said local radio was dead have to say now. ;)
 
Congratulations Chuck, glad to hear the Chalk Hill family has expanded again. Live & local is vey much alive and well in East Texas...

..wish the same could be said for SOUTHeast Texas...
 
Just a little more info on the new 107-9, so Chuck isn't tooting his own horn, lol.

Call is K300CX, licensed to Henderson @ 205 watts, elevated @ 79m. (259 ft.) Coordinates for K300CX are 32°07'36.0"N 94°47'57.0"W, placing it due south of Henderson, just off US 79 & clearly visible from the Wal-Mart Supercenter.

205 watts, Chuck? Who's in your way, preventing you from more power?
 
Congrats Chuck on getting the new Henderson translator on the air. I think that's the same tower that the old KGRI was on in the 90's, plus it's the first time I've ever seen a directional pattern for a translator.
 
It appears to be the od KGRI-AM tower. It is quite visible from Highway 79. It has a base insulator and insulators on the guy wires which leads me to believe it was built for AM. Recently, it has been used for two way radio and pager applications.

This translator is 205 watts because it has to be contained within KDOK-AM's 2 mv contour. More power and it wouldn't meet that requirement. Even so, it has strong signal in Henderson. The other translators do a decent job in Kilgore and Longview.

Lot's of translators are directional, especially in the non-com band. This one is vertically polarized as well. It is all to make it fit within the FCC's convoluted translator rules for AM stations. They are really crazy and quite inconsistent. The original application for this translator was made almost ten years ago. It has been quite an adventure to actually get it on the air. I hope folks I Henderson enjoy it.
 
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I didn't know it was the old KGRI-AM 1000 tower too. 290 feet seems a little tall for AM. I was able to catch the new translator driving around in Kilgore tonight, just barely though.
 
purpledevil said:
Congratulations Chuck, glad to hear the Chalk Hill family has expanded again. Live & local is vey much alive and well in East Texas...

..wish the same could be said for SOUTHeast Texas...
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This Chalk family would not happen to have a relative working for Centerpoint Energy in SE Texas??
 
Not that I know of

Or a relative who is a NFL referee??? (meant to quote in the reply but hit the wrong reply...and cant delete the post so I added the quote manually :) my bad!)
 
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billyg said:
BTW Chuck, has the Longview translator been upgraded yet?
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Not yet. It is still a work in progress. The weather has not been my friend. The new antennas and transmitter are sitting here waiting to be installed. I can do a lot of thing, but tower climbing is definitely off my list. :)
 
Awesome Chuck! :)

BTW, typing in 'KDOK' to Google brings up the first result, which says kdokradio.com in the title bar. However Google calls it KDOK 92.1 FM...
 
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