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KLXY Guthrie TX downgrade

Wow! I don't know if you've ever been to Guthrie but I've been through the town before a few times. As I understand it the town of Guthrie was primarily a ranch headquarters and that ranch might still own most of the homes. As I recall there is a small store that is more like a General Store and Convenience store all in one. Guthrie might be 150 people at most and there's well under 300 in the whole county. Even if KLXY reached other nearby counties, there's just not a whole lot there in nearby counties. At 120 watts at 20 meters, it will be impossible to even pay the light bill from advertising. And you are right, finding something to listen to in that part of Texas takes little decision making if any.

Just for grins I ran 100 watts at 30 meters above average terrain. The 60 dbu has 161 people and the 50 dbu is only 164 people!
 
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Yeah the owner of that station also has a few translators around Corpus Christi... I'm not sure what's going on with KLXY because with the other stations I can imagine he probably knows what he's doing. So why spend money on a lonely station like that? Unless he's doing it for the town of Guthrie to provide emergency services and music, because there's probably no good phone service there.
 
Just from grins, I looked up Dun & Bradstreet. They list 4 businesses. One seems be be a lady that makes jewelry likely from home. There's a convenience store, a liquor store doing around $140,000 in sales and a small shop called Style. Considering the convenience store sells gas, I'm thinking maybe a $1 million in sales combining all 4 businesses. In a perfect world you might generate $200 a month for radio from this. Considering the station reaches 63 homes in the 60 dbu, I can't see these businesses begging for commercials nor other businesses outside the area. This is an isolated spot. You have to go at least 30 miles to even reach a town of 800 to 1,000 people. I simply do not 'get' why one would go for this station and what they could do with it. Even some of the newspapers out there consolidated to survive the dwindling population (Matador, Silverton and I think another town or two are served by a consolidated paper when each town had their own paper not too many years ago...My goodness Matador had been 1,000 people not long ago and is now about 650).
 
I doubt KVRP is rolling in cash and they might very well be using internet to get their signal to the transmitter. I know from talking to a few stations, internet in the smaller communities is not always stellar. When something goes wrong, there's usually not anyone in town to do something about it and replacement parts are not always on hand. It might have been you were listening when one of those less than stellar moments was happening.

A guy I know with a small town station said the internet provider (the best of the few choices in his town) was so bad, they set the on air computer at the transmitter and used the studios to update and insert breaks and jocking because there were just too many times a week something happened. As he put it, any storm knocks them out so having the main feed at the transmitter site really helped in informing the community when they wanted to know what was about to hit them and getting no internet meant it was their station or nothing.
 
That's smart though to have the on-air computer at the transmitter. You can get an external hard drive and load it up with music.
These days you can connect to, and remotely control a computer through Internet. Same with transferring files. You wouldn't have to pay for a streaming server and the quality would be great.
 
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