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Before the turn of the century, Ted Tucker's Desert West Air Ranchers Corp. bought KZNO, a station on 98.3 in Nogales, AZ. Tucker proposed to move the station's community of license to Vail under the guise of becoming a "first local service" for Vail.The FCC frequently buys into this sort of nonsense and they approved the move and frequency shift to 98.5. On November 4 of 2002 the Commission issued the construction permit which expired exactly three years later. Dispite the fact that the station wasn't on the air, Desert West applied for a license to cover the Construction Permit and that license was granted on March 1. The station should have been in regular operation then but it still isn't.The transmitter is on a hill just west of the Old Sonoita Highway, about six miles south of I-10 exit 283. There is hardly any location where KRDX is stronger than adjacent KOHT-98.3, certainly not in Tucson. To my surprise, the two stations don't cause much interference to each other. If Clear Channel wanted to obliterate KRDX, all they'd have to do is go digital. The digital noise would blanket 98.5 throughout Tucson.Meanwhile, Tucker and associates have another proposal before the FCC. They propose to move 98.5 to Corona de Tucson and a Corona Construction Permit to Tanque Verde and also move a Lordsburg permit to Vail. The FCC is unlikely to act on these proposals very soon.KRDX will probably be a jukebox operated on the lowest budget possible.