KAEZ history?

[TexasTuner]

Does anyone recall the antenna arrangement for EZ 107? LOL! I understand the lowest bay of the antenna was almost on the ground. LOL! I used to listen to EZ 107 from time to time back when they were on. The thing I remember about them the most was the wierd audio processing (turns out I think they were still using a CBS Volumax/Audimax). It had a pretty unique sound to it, complete with a ton of multipath compared to other stations, probably because of the low altitude and high gain antenna they were using.

I remember driving by the studios and remembering it had such a tiny tower for a 100k station. I remember asking someone at KCSC about the station, and one of my DJ freinds who had visited the station called it a "Junk Pile". The audio was horrible, with no bass at all. And sundays were reserved for scream and shout preaching.

The only other tower I saw that had cranked much power on a little stick was KJMZ in Lawton when they used to run 100k at 98.1 off one of KKRX-AM's towers which are around 200ft. A huge waste of power. Perry downgraded KJMZ to a 6K two years ago and moved it to a new 320ft tower.

The tower that Perry's Lawton station was on collapsed over the brutal Oklahoma winter, December 2009/January 2010. I think he's still on low power from his studio in East Lawton.

 

[OKCRadioGuy]

Interesting. That's too cool. Lots of great radio there indeed!

 

[X-Man]

I always wondered why KAEZ signal faded after get out a couple of miles out of OKC, this station was 100kw and according to some of the broadcasting books back then the tower was 185ft and from looking at the tower near the station at the time the looks about right. I remember in the Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook for 1985 it had KAEZ's tower height as 860ft either that was a typo or the must have gotten a new tower at the time which I highly doubt.

 

[OKCRadioGuy]

Who knows. They might have had a CP for that somewhere but had not acted on it. After the sale the new owers of the signal built KIMY 107.7at 1000 feet at Channel 25 with the old Phelps-Dodge antenna from the old KAEZ. It didn't last long from what I understand. The damn thing burned up. Irronic, ideed! KRXO spent the majority of it's life on ERI rototillers. Their current location is a combined system at Richland, of course...