Has anyone any information on KLSQ and what if any ultimate disposition might have been determined for this facility? They haven't yet fired it up for its yearly month or so of activity before unplugging it again.
Rick Newman
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KLSQ 870 (Whitney [Las Vegas]) Nevada
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KLSQ filed for an STA in May for resumption of operations from an emergency antenna at its studio with 71 watts, telling the FCC that its licensed site was vandalized beyond repair.
I hadn't heard anything about this. Their three tower array was visible from a local highway though I was wondering why I'd not seen them in quite a while. I suspected urban home development was the reason. I wonder if having been vandalized beyond repair is a factor in their towers being no longer visible. I worked for a station here which at one point had its copper ground radials stolen though what you've described takes this kind of thing to a whole new level. KLSQ's Laughlin towers are still standing though I suspect that's all that remains at the site. I've got a mobile ham radio which runs more then 71 watts....geez. Thanks for the information.
Is this the frequency (870) near Las Vegas, that had the two (same frequency) transmitters on the air at one time, in different locations, I think one was meant to cover Las Vegas and the other much more south of Las Vegas.
Anyone remember this, I heard it when they had the two (same frequency transmitters) a number of years back when I was in the area, it had to be back in the 1980's???
Anyone remember this, I heard it when they had the two (same frequency transmitters) a number of years back when I was in the area, it had to be back in the 1980's???
Actually, the Laughlin towers have quite a life after KOWA decided to abandon it’s original home on Needles Hwy north of the town.
The two tower array has two clients: the one furthest from the highway still has the antenna from Channel 34 when it actually broadcast to Laughlin. New FM station KIDD 103.9 broadcasts from there…in addition to a couple of translators. For class A’s, it’s a more advantageous place as it’s on a gently sloping hill about 400’ above Laughlin/Bullhead, but gentle enough of a decline that KIDD can run a full 6kW from the site despite excellent views.
The other tower runs KFLG (AM1000 daytime only) at 1kW to feed some translators and a talk station on 1230 that’s been off the air on AM (still running on FM translators fine). They both had their towers in Bullhead until the airport and development gobbled them up.
The 1230 kHz station I think you're referring to is KAAA licensed to (and has a transmitter at) Kingman, AZ. I don't think that one is off the air but I haven't been up in the area to check. However, the other AM station that you might be referring to is Bullhead City's KZZZ (1490 kHz) which is owned by the same company that owns KAAA and simulcasts the latter's news/talk programming. Again, I haven't been in the area to check but I do remember reading somewhere (possibly on this Board) that KZZZ had gone silent.
That’s it, and yes. Honestly, there’s no need for 1490 as I don’t think the translators are not tied to the AM station. But that was the old KBAS in Bullhead. I don’t know what that or KRHS-FM was doing, but until the early 90’s them, KOWA on 870, and several Vegas and Phoenix translators we no longer have (hell, we don’t even have NPR anymore) was all you got down here.
It was off a while ago, but just tuned it in with my SI4732 radio on 1490. That, daytimes on 1000, and a faint KTOX appears to be the only AM you can pick up indoors surrounded by stucco and chicken wire. Still on the air! 1230 is still kicking up in Kingman as well.
Anyway, it’s nice to see those barely-used towers get some additional use…otherwise it’d make a great 160m antenna!
Yes. KOWA was originally just a 10kW station in Laughlin that had a decent N-S coverage pattern, so it could city grade the Vegas valley.
Don’t know how they pulled it off, but they got a 1kW booster in Whitney to enhance Vegas coverage in the mid 90’s (mind you, I don’t think they signed on the air until ‘89-90).
Eventually, with the lack of growth in the Tri-State area due to many factors (but mostly the Laughlin casinos not continuing to grow like they did in the 70s-80s due to CA/AZ tribal gaming), they got approval to move to their booster site with full power and ditch Laughlin. I don’t know when they stopped broadcasting in Laughlin but I think it was early 00’s. For Laughlin losing it’s only aural full service radio station according to the FCC, a compromise was reached where KJJJ-FM changed COL from Bullhead to Laughlin. Didn’t change transmitting site (Spirit Mountain about 5 miles north of Laughlin)
Then they sold off, owners made a killing…and now you know…the rest of the story!