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KDON 1460 Salinas ( transmitter site near coast )
- Thread starter alok
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I believe I recall two reasons. The land near the coast increased in value and taxes increased proportionally. Moving inland allowed the station to cover more population since the area had grown immensely since the original site wast built.
The station always sent most of the night signal to the west to protect other co-channel and adjacent channel stations. By moving inland, they covered their market better. However, they had to increase power as in CA in general the farther inland you get, the poorer the ground conductivity is.
Found the old site ,on historical aerials & info from FCC history cards ,it was 2 towers near an area called Palm Beach , just SW of Watsonville on the coast. It was west of Shell Road and north of W. Beach Rd. Yes there is some new building around the area but the actual old site is still swamp and just open land,towers are gone.
If you go to old aerials you can see two towers running NE - SW, 1968 map.
This is what I remembered,that it was 2 towers close to coast about mid-way between Santa Cruz & Salinas. Today if you look at "Googlemaps" ,it mentions the towers as KDON-AM ,Salinas but the towers are not there anymore.
Al
If you go to old aerials you can see two towers running NE - SW, 1968 map.
This is what I remembered,that it was 2 towers close to coast about mid-way between Santa Cruz & Salinas. Today if you look at "Googlemaps" ,it mentions the towers as KDON-AM ,Salinas but the towers are not there anymore.
Al
Coastal wetlands in CA are generally not called "swamps". They are wetlands, marshes, tidal basins or similar terms.
Many are not protected if they are not home to a wildlife variety that is endangered. They can be made highly commercial via landfill or drainage.
The only issue is that, in my opinion, the Salinas area is the only coastal zone of California where the coastline is just dreadful and, mostly, quite ugly save for an occasional sunset over the Pacific. Much of the lack of beauty has to do with unfettered free-market agriculture, but much also is just the typical homeliness of "wetlands" in a tidal basin.
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Dave,
you can too call them swamps . . . I spents over 40 years in Califronia, loved it . . . but trust me it is a SWAMP.
see . . . fromWikipedia ( they know all !!!! ) . . . A swamp is a forested wetland.
If you ever been to that old KDON site, you'd see it is forested alittle . . . I was at that site in the 70's / 80's . . . it is a SWAMP or as you like to call it a Wetland.
Al
you can too call them swamps . . . I spents over 40 years in Califronia, loved it . . . but trust me it is a SWAMP.
see . . . fromWikipedia ( they know all !!!! ) . . . A swamp is a forested wetland.
If you ever been to that old KDON site, you'd see it is forested alittle . . . I was at that site in the 70's / 80's . . . it is a SWAMP or as you like to call it a Wetland.
Al
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