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Tucson Are there any updates on KWCX, KCDX, KKYZ, KRDX?

KXKR on the air but with incredibly low modulation. There was a similar problem with Ted's station on 104.5.
 
Try turning up your volume control. Low modulation is a FCC rule violation that nobody gets cited for. It's like getting a ticket for driving too slowly.
 
For close to a week Ted's Vail station on 104.5 has been transmitting an open carrier. Not exciting programming by any standards. Plus it is an FCC rule violation. Any other operator would be trying to fix this problem at the earliest possible minute. Ted is exempt from many FCC rules. This is not the first time this has happened.
 
Absolutely, positively 100% (well, maybe 99.4%) useless information:

As of today, programming from KTBX (98.1) Tubac is roughly 90 seconds ahead of programming on KXKR (101.1) Catalina Foothills. Copy & Paste the same hard drive that the other stations are using, it would seem.

The general vicinity of Tucson Marketplace (Kino & 36th) will give you an opportunity to hear both. I didn't try to grab the Vail station this afternoon. Since the Pima County Fair is in progress, one might think there could be another listener or three picking them up on the way to Houghton & I-10.
 
Before it went silent, 98.5 in Vail had the same music as 101.7 in Sierra Vista but there was about a one minute delay. And the Vail station had no commercials. I think that most or all of Ted's stations get their audio from the internet. If the modem goes dead the station runs no audio for a week or however long it takes to reboot the modem.
 
For the past several days KWCX-104.9 has been transmitting an open carrier. The main effect is to prevent people on the east side of Tucson from hearing the translator that supposedly relays 1490 A.M. As I pointed out several months ago, KWCX and the translator cause nasty interference with each other in much of Tucson. On the other hand ESPN is some of the most boring programming in all of radio.
 
It has now been about a week since KWCX has been on the air with no programming. Even it this weren't an FCC violation it is hard to imagine how a station owner could have so little interest in what goes over the air. You'd think that if no modulation is possible the owners would want to save on their electric bill and turn off the transmitter. Maybe this says something about the state of today's radio industry.
 
Today, I listened to the TOH ID on the Inte net stream for ESPN Tucson. Gone is the KWCX piece. Has the 104.9 "double play" gone way?
 
Both KWCX and the translator are on the air on 104.9 and the audio of one is about a second behind the other. They should run periodic announcements that you can get clearer audio by switching to 1490.
 
Ted Tucker strikes again. Perhaps we'll have to add KPSA-FM to thread title.

On Friday, Cochise filed to move KPSA-FM , a Class A at 98.5 in Lordsburg, New Mexico to Mescal, Arizona as a 26kw ERP highly-directional C2 also on 98.5. A new 37M high antenna tower would be built near the Sibyl Road exit off Interstate 10, east of Mescal.

KPSA-FM would have a deep null (22.4dB) to protect a Mexican allocation. The 60dBu contour will extend to the outskirts of Vail.

The engineering study is embedded in the application paperwork:

Draft Copy « Licensing and Management System « FCC

Licensing and Management System
enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov
 
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Thank you for this piece of useful information. Tucker's proposed transmitter site is about a quarter of a mile southwest of the location of 97.7 Benson. It looks like this might be on land that once housed a Titan Missile silo. Mescal is about fifteen miles west of that location. Mescal is just north of exit 297 of I-10 and has only a few hundred people. Couldn't possibly support a radio station so clearly there is no intention of serving that tiny community. Besides, every major station in Tucson reaches Mescal as does the Benson station. This could be one of countless Tucker proposals that never get built. Generally the FCC won't allow a station to pack up and leave while providing no backfill for the community vacated. The agency seems to be making an exception in this case. One thing that escapes me is how Tucker managed to switch 98.5 in Vail for 104.5 which is nowhere near 98.5 frequency- wise. A long time ago 98.5 got moved to Vail from Nogales which had 98.3. 98.5 is too close to Marana on 98.3 to be useful for covering Tucson. What's next?
 
Cochise set up a non-profit corporation to run the new NCE 89.7 in Lordsburg. Tucker's application states the Mescal move is contigent on the FCC accepting this new NCE backfill as a substitute for KPSA-FM's service in New Mexico.
 
103.7 (KRDX) was on-air Thursday during daylight hours. I tried tuning in a bit too early this morning; heard nothing.

I have a bank of presets in the sedan dedicated to KTBX 98.1, KKYZ 101.1, KCDX 103.1 and KRDX 103.7
 
The 104.9 story is about to close. Today KZLZ LLC filed to sell KWCX Tanque Verde and K285DL Tucson to Relevant Radio, Inc. for $1.1 million.

I guess Bustos Media did not get this one to add to their Tucson cluster.
 
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I noticed the KXKR antenna is actually located behind the Bustos Media offices in Tucson (KVOI, etc.). Is KXKR still just a KCDX clone or has Bustos Media taken over the content of that 101.1 signal?
 


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