I'd be surprised if KAAY is running sideband. Especially after the fire along with needing to replace the ground system.
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KMOX did early on
I can't speak with 100% certainty, but my guess is that KMOX is in a much stronger financial position than KAAY. which has struggled recently. But who knows?
And now I've recieved word that KAAY will go 80 watts ND nights. 🤯
Are we talking IBOC sidebands or just adjacent channel splatter?
That's just plain sad, ZantenaG1. I thought the brokered overnight programming was the biggest source of their revenue.
I have a friend though who is convinced that another Class A AM facility will soon lose its site. He is preparing to build a tower for another facility nearby, and he is doing it with the anticipation that the Class A facility, with the new 275 mV/m @ 1 km @ 1 kW minimum efficiency for Class A being met at least, and will be able to move there. Other details are withheld so it will be hard to identify which station. Vertical Bridge? More like Horizontal Tower. And it's not just AMs. FMs are already relocating and becoming hideously directional to remain licensed.
I have a friend though who is convinced that another Class A AM facility will soon lose its site. He is preparing to build a tower for another facility nearby, and he is doing it with the anticipation that the Class A facility, with the new 275 mV/m @ 1 km @ 1 kW minimum efficiency for Class A being met at least, and will be able to move there. Other details are withheld so it will be hard to identify which station. Vertical Bridge? More like Horizontal Tower. And it's not just AMs. FMs are already relocating and becoming hideously directional to remain licensed.
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Nice Catch
Quite a comedown from the days when KAAY was beaming programming to Cuba during the Cuban missle crisis.
Sheesh. And I thought FM'S were safe.
*Panic increases*
Good for him! We need more people invested in AM, even if things look bleak right now. Dude does not buy into the doom and gloom stuff!
The problem with the FMs is that especially in Zone I, and probably Zone I-A, is they tend to be old stations originally authorized before circa 1964, many with lower ERP than today, and on short AM towers, and even Class Bs were only protected to 60 dBu or 1 mV/m. When the FCC changed the rules, they were "short spaced", and regulated by Section 73.213. And they keep changing those rules. Stations tended to locate in the full ERP and HAAT short spaced zone, or the next closer zone. Also, other stations squeezed in under Docket 80-90 and subsequent rulings related to it. Despite popular belief, many of the distance separation requirements INCREASED, and increased even more when 6 kW Class As were allowed. In some instances, 3 kW Class As are basically stuck where they are. Some stations went to 6 kW directional found that the signals were worse due to the DA in critical directions, and went back to 3 kW nondirectional. And under newer rules for Section 73,213, Class Bs have to go DA at a new site. Often these patterns when measured leave a lot of areas with much less directional ERP toward short paced stations than the design parameters.
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DFW, Texas -- Sangean ATS-909X
New stations logged this morning, 2/14/2022:
680 WPTF NC Raleigh 0603 CST Raleigh weather, NC news items. Weak in KFEQ null. Raleigh SR is 0600 CST.
900 WKDA TN Lebanon 0618 CST Ad for memory care center in Lebanon, 615- phone number. Weak.
1180 KZOT NE Bellevue 0555 CST KZOT ID, mentions of Omaha, CBS sports. Fair in R. Rebelde null over KTSB IBOC.
Not new, but I did hear 1190-WOWO also this morning with "Wo-Wo Traffic" and road conditions at 0628 CST.
New stations logged this morning, 2/14/2022:
680 WPTF NC Raleigh 0603 CST Raleigh weather, NC news items. Weak in KFEQ null. Raleigh SR is 0600 CST.
900 WKDA TN Lebanon 0618 CST Ad for memory care center in Lebanon, 615- phone number. Weak.
1180 KZOT NE Bellevue 0555 CST KZOT ID, mentions of Omaha, CBS sports. Fair in R. Rebelde null over KTSB IBOC.
Not new, but I did hear 1190-WOWO also this morning with "Wo-Wo Traffic" and road conditions at 0628 CST.
Are you in a KFXR null?
I am ~20 miles WNW from the KFXR transmitter site. I can barely hear them at night and aiming the radio NNE (towards Ft. Wayne) effectively nulls any remnant of KFXR's signal at my location.
I am DXing for the first time in weeks since 1700 XEPE is completely off the air. Conditions are still mediocre and eastern conditions aren't really there at all, but I am getting a weak KKLF TX with Spanish talk, a very weak Amy Lawrence on KBGG IA, and a TIS station that keeps fading up but announcements are too weak to ID. I assume either Issaquah or Auburn.
Over on 1710, the Travis AFB TIS in northern California is at threshold level, but audible.
Over on 1710, the Travis AFB TIS in northern California is at threshold level, but audible.
KMOX is tied for first in billing in St Louis. KAAY is barely 20th in much smaller Little Rock, estimated to be doing less than $20,000 a month... while KMOX bills about 20 or so times that.
When CBJ vacated 1580 in Quebec, the frequency was auctioned off to a commercial station in Oshawa, ON, CKDO. It is still Class A, but with 10 kW. They tried to move WWVA 1170 to Stow, OH, but there was such a clamor of support for keeping it in Wheeling, WV that they had it dismissed. It seems like KAAY could be moved somewhere as a better facility, but there are so many other 1090s to deal with, that relocation would be difficult. It might be more financially feasible in a large market.
That's kind of what I thought, but not knowing for sure, I tried to couch my remarks in general terms.
I'm not sure to what extent, if any, KAAY was ever a cash cow. Certainly their top 40 format was interrupted from time to time during their broadcast day by paid religion. I also knew a guy who worked in sales at KAAY who told me (in the 70s) that Little Rock was prone to price wars. KAAY had the "entertainment rate", "beer rate" etc., which could sometimes get into "dollar-a-holler" territory. But currently $20k a month....wow!
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I seem to remember KAAY carrying Garner Ted