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KKOL Directional

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jdweaver

What's up with KKOL's technical signal these days? They sound like a 500-watt directional signal with the major lobe going straight down. Their signal is utterly unlistenable, so I'm not sure why they bothered to change formats.
 
According to http://www.sbe16.org/wg/2008/pdf/wg1108.pdf, KKOL has filed for a STA to try and fill in the areas poorly covered because of the whole US Oil situation.

Jim Dalke (the engineer who rigged up the KKOL shipboard temporary transmitter) is helping with the project, so maybe he can bring you up to date. His contact info is at the sbe16.org site.
 
FM Steve - that's helpful. I had no idea how tight their 50KW corridor was. Not sure that 50KW helps them all that much, if at all. A decent 5KW on the Duwamish would have developed better metro coverage. Maybe it's just an issue of where to put the stick. How times have changed...in many markets formerly big-gun stations have been relegated to the back waters of the business (WRIT 1400 Milwaukee, KCPX 1320 SLC, KRIZ 1230 Phoenix, and now KOL 1300, Seattle).
 
I don't know from directional .. but for what it's worth, KKOL is one of the better Seattle AM signals here in Victoria BC.
 
ronrob said:
I don't know from directional .. but for what it's worth, KKOL is one of the better Seattle AM signals here in Victoria BC.
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If you look at--and can make sense of--the predicted-coverage maps on the application for the 2.5 kW (daytime-only) synchronous transmitter (find the application at fcc.gov), you will see that there is a pretty clear salt-water path to Victoria from KKOL's main site in the Port of Tacoma. So your observation seems to agree with the theory, which is always nice. I live 3000 miles away so there is no chance of my listening to KKOL's over-the-air signal, but modern technology can lock the frequency and phase of the main and synchronous transmitters so closely that the artifact (a sub-audio heterodyne) is undetectable--except maybe as standing waves when you drive around listening to the signal in an area where the main and synchronous transmitters produce signals of comparable strength.
 
ronrob said:
I don't know from directional .. but for what it's worth, KKOL is one of the better Seattle AM signals here in Victoria BC.
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KKOL's nighttime signal is actually far better north.

Wish i could say the same for Seattle. During the day, I can't get them at all down there in many areas.
 
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