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The latest KNSJ disaster

KilowattKat

KilowattKat

The latest winter storm has toppled and permanently damaged the tower, and the equipment housed below. Bottom line is that it will be at least a year, if ever, as far as returning to the air. They are in DESPERATE need of money. They will soon have an app that they are promoting. Scroll down under News for the details

 
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KilowattKat said:
The latest winter storm has toppled and permanently damaged the tower, and the equipment housed below. Bottom line is that it will be at least a year, if ever, as far as returning to the air. They are in DESPERATE need of money. They will soon have an app that they are promoting. Scroll down under News for the details

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Well, if the station is off for 12 consecutive months then the license is cancelled by law. See 47 CFR § 73.1750.

If the intend to keep the license they will need to hustle to make sure it is not a year or more. There are very few exceptions or waiver options regarding this rule.

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47 CFR § 73.1750 - Discontinuance of operation.

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The first thing you see on their website is about awards they won from 2021, then the news about their tower falling.

Looking at their shows, one of them is called The Shortwave Report, but it’s just rebroadcasting news stories someone tapes off a shortwave radio. Who wants to listen to that?

It also has no underwriters on the Underwriters page:
 
It's hard to feel sorry for them. The Monument Peak site has been problematic from day 1. They have filed numerous CP's over the years for a better site and frequency, and more importantly to prevent this from happening again. The history of this is well documented in this thread. They just don't seem to learn from their mistakes.

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KNSJ-FM Back On The Air?

With KNSJ having such a rimshot of a signal in San Diego one can never tell if they really are back on the air or not. Or are still claiming STA status?
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One thing to keep in mind is that KNSJ is simulcasting its current programming to co-owned stations licensed to Glammis, CA, and Fortuna Hills, AZ. And that begs the question: Does anybody know if those stations are off of the air or running dead carriers? If not, then I suppose that if Activist San Diego is unable to get its Monument Peak tower properly fixed, that one of those two remaining stations will become the main broadcasting outlet.
 
Ryan Williams said:
Well, if the station is off for 12 consecutive months then the license is cancelled by law. See 47 CFR § 73.1750.
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However, if a proven effort is being made to restore service there are exceptions.
Ryan Williams said:
If the intend to keep the license they will need to hustle to make sure it is not a year or more. There are very few exceptions or waiver options regarding this rule.
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To preserve the license, there must be evidence that work is being done. I have seen cases where issues involving permits and zoning have kept a station silent, but when evidence of a concerted effort to get the facility built or rebuilt is demonstrated, there are extensions.

Perhaps @fybush can give examples of when exceptions or extensions have been given.

In my experience, a number of stations in Puerto Rico were off for several years following the 2017 Hurricane María losses.
 
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And if that happens, my reaction is "good riddance". As Kat said, it's hard to feel sorry for them anymore.
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I have casually followed that station and its technical issues, lack of staff that understands broadcasting, and generally misunderstanding of how people listen to the radio. It is hard to sympathize for a licensee that not only does not "follow the rules" but which pretends that the rules don't apply to them.
 
I wanted so badly to like the station. I like freeform, and sometimes public affairs programming. Stuff that's often to the left of 90 on the FM dial. I'm from the county, but listen mostly to KEXP, maybe KFAI, WMNF or WNCW or a few others.

It's just a hard listen, even when things were "going right".
 
It has been a disaster from the beginning.

Makes you wonder if the Higher Authority isn't having a moment where he is flexing his hand...... 🤣😂
 
This is KIZY 91.5 Fortuna Foothills, AZ which is a Yuma "suburb".. a station KNSJ recently bought, they werent the original builders or owners.

Houston, we have a problem with the antenna

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SomeRadioGuy said:
This is KIZY 91.5 Fortuna Foothills, AZ which is a Yuma "suburb".. a station KNSJ recently bought, they werent the original builders or owners.

Houston, we have a problem with the antenna

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Frankly, I am of the decided opinion that the FCC should never have licensed KIZY, no matter who owned it. The station not only had to protect Phoenix's KJZZ on the same frequency but also the Mexicali station (Baja California, Mexico) on that frequency as well. Protecting the latter meant that there was no way that that station could serve the nearby populated area of Yuma.
 
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that Activist San Diego is not fit to be a licensee.
 
KilowattKat said:
Activist SD also owns KUMI, a 100 watt NCE located in (no joke) Glamis, CA. It's a gas station and convenience store surrounded by miles and miles of sand dunes. Pop count is ZERO.
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So they're idiots as well.
 
KilowattKat said:
Activist SD also owns KUMI, a 100 watt NCE located in (no joke) Glamis, CA. It's a gas station and convenience store surrounded by miles and miles of sand dunes. Pop count is ZERO.
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The population of Glamis reaches its peak during the Thanksgiving and New Year's holidays when hundreds of jeeps, dune buggies, and two- and three-wheel motorcycles populate those sand dunes for miles around. My late father was big into that and between 1970 and 1977 (with the exception of 1971), we were always at Glamis for the Thanksgiving Day celebrations. And, of course, the sand got into everything, including the valuable portable radios I took along on those trips.

We usually camped in the dunes about five miles east of the store and gas station off of California State Route 78. For all of the trips I made there, there were only five Stateside AM radio stations that could be received easily:

560--KBLU, Yuma
, AZ1230--KXO El Centro, CA
1300--KROP Brawley, CA
1430--KAMP, El Centro, CA
1490--KCIO, Calexico, CA

Of these, only KROP and some of the Mexicali stations put in good local signals at night. FM was interesting as where our camping spot was located (we chose the same spot every year), you could, with a decent whip antenna, pick up many of theLos Angeles stations on Mt. Wilson and some of the San Diego stations as well. It was great after the 1972 move to Phoenix as it allowed me to hear some of KRTH's oldies programming from the campsite.
 


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