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Iowa KBGG/K267CY Now Officially Cancelled

According to FCCdata the translator only covered the northwest part of the market with "60db". There are a bunch of FM signals that have paper "60db's" that cover most if not all of the market. It is relatively flat pit there so one can assume the FM signals drawn on paper are like that in real life. The only possible saving of this facility would be if an AM station near that doesn't have a FM translator could move the 1700 signal and translator to. But I doubt the FCC would let you move an AM 60+ miles. And I really doubt it would be financially viable.

Was this station part of a cluster that Cumulus bought? I can't think of anyone that would buy a really really high band AM this century unless it had a translator that could go farther than the 25 mile rule and the ground conductivity of the AM signal let you go farther.
 
I'm glad I was able to put them in the logbook here. KBGG got out really well at night and was often heard when eastern conditions were ripe (stronger than KCNZ or KCJJ). Sometimes they were slightly weaker than KXEL (and KXEL can have a monster signal here at night).
 
secondchoice said:
Was this station part of a cluster that Cumulus bought? I can't think of anyone that would buy a really really high band AM this century unless it had a translator that could go farther than the 25 mile rule and the ground conductivity of the AM signal let you go farther.
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It was part of one of the many former Citadel clusters that Cumulus got almost 15 years ago. And was an expanded band station that replaced a former AM in KKSO, which was on 1390, back in ‘98.
 
ksradiogeek said:
It was part of one of the many former Citadel clusters that Cumulus got almost 15 years ago. And was an expanded band station that replaced a former AM in KKSO, which was on 1390, back in ‘98.
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Originally KCBC, one of a set of AM stations established in Des Moines in the last half of the 1940s...the others were KWKY and KIOA...and never particularly successful. Reputedly, it had a difficult directional pattern (same pattern day and night), which was why it got an expanded-band allocation. The 1975 NRC pattern book (at worldradiohistory.com) shows a pattern with four nulls with the main lobe pointing west and a secondary lobe to the north-northeast, along two other minor lobes.

I don't recall ever hearing the station (at 1390)...the local station where I lived in Iowa was on 1400.
 


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