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Kermit AM

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JerryK

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Has the FCC deleted KERB in Kermit? It's been off the air about 3 years now but Radio-locator shows it as still active. Looks like one of the towers is gone and
the place looks like an old gas station that closed up ten years ago.
 
According to the FCC website, it's still licensed. The owner is LA RADIO CHRISTIANA NETWORK, run by the Bernal family in McAllen. There was nothing official in the FCC data I saw that indicates KERB-AM had gone silent...but the FCC isn't always told when that happens.
 
I remember hearing that station when I spent some time in West Texas as a kid in the 70s. It was about the only station we could pick up, it had a huge signal. I remember doing a scan on the AM radio while driving with my Dad and the only signals it would stop on was the Kermit AM and WBAP Fort Worth. That's called being in the "middle of nowhere!"
 
I haven't needed to go through Kermit in ages. I'm not surprised that one of the KERB towers has fallen over.

Back in the 90's, I engineered KERB AM and FM for the local Odessa owner. One day I brought him a piece of rusted and badly corroded steel from the base of one of the towers. I told him the tower was going to fall sooner or later in a good West Texas windstorm.
 
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