The key word here is "STA," which allows 25 percent of licensed power for ND operation.
62.5 is 25 percent of the licensed 250 watt night DA power for KNUV.
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KNUV 1190 Downgrade and Eventual Re-location
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62.5 is 25 percent of the licensed 250 watt night DA power for KNUV.
Here's one that does the same thing to protect XEWW. It's 690 KCEE Tucson, licensed for night at 3.5 watts.
Since Saturday afternoon, it is back on the air KNUV.
And...... right after they took down 2 of the towers, that night.. they got a call the development deal was off and they could stay. No word on what happens next.
A desperate AM owner meets a desperate FM: Laura Madrid's La Promize Company is buying KRPH 99.5 Morristown from Jeff Chang for $200,000. A time brokerage agreement and asset purchase agreement are both dated February 20. https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/d...&id=25076ff394e080a0019524af700d573a&goBack=N
Jeff Chang originally paid $50,000 for KRPH. So he smartly made a profit of $150,000. There's still money in buying/selling radio properties for profit.
At least it allows KNUV to regain an FM frequency, a thousand times better than the 107.5 translator, but now the question will be whether they will continue with the operation on 1190.
I actually think the 107.5 translator had a better signal in the Hispanic populated areas than KRPH does. 99.5 covers a lot of cacti and rattlesnakes, and has interference from KIIM in Tucson in its 60 dBu contour.
You're right, I didn't remember the KIIM-FM signal, which I heard a thousand times up to 60 miles inland from the border with Mexico.
Officially, the KIIM F(50,10) 40 dBu interference contour almost touches KRPH's 60 dBu F(50,50). The Longley-Rice scatter plots generated by Rabbit Ears show the situation is more severe as KIIM bleeds into the Phoenix market:
One of my "elders" in the business of broadcasting, who worked in Phoenix, tells me that "KARDS" ♦️ ♠️ was a decent sounding country station for it's time
The KNUV website already mentions KRPH Morristown's 99.5 FM frequency. They may launch it as early as Wednesday. I ask you, what future will the 1190 have with the pending issues of its migration.
La Onda 99.5 FM seems to be the new website. They're teasing some new programs for 99.5 but strangely distancing themselves from 1190 ...
Audio is at : http://178.33.135.245:13648/stream/;
Audio is at : http://178.33.135.245:13648/stream/;
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I listened to the last bit of an interview with the station owner Laura Madrid on KNUV on the program "Contacto Total" today. Ms. Madrid said the AM signal would go silent at the end of March then it will transfer to a new transmitter site. New launch date of 1190 AM is TBD but apparently the 99.5 is getting some great signal reports. If you speak Spanish, the host is reading off reception reports from all over Phoenix and beyond.
I wonder if Ms. Madrid could afford to lease the 99.3 translator on Shaw Butte, or does KQFN/CRC still have a long-term lease on that? That would help them in the areas where 99.5 has interference issues, and be an adjacent signal. She'd probably have to wait until 1190 is back on the air to do that.
¿Que en paz descanse? A cancellation application just dropped for KNUV's license. (At least I think it's for the whole license.)
It might be a cancellation of their previous issued STA when KNUV was losing two of their three sticks and going to operate with one at 25% of licensed power. The STA was scheduled to end on 6/15/25. Somehow I recall reading the school board didn't need the land after all and things might go back to normal. But then again, the last batch of Old Gringo Menudo that Nurse Jeff brought to the Media Hut just didn't sit right with my gut. May explain everything.
Wasn't it a month ago after purchasing KRPH, that Laura Madrid said she was going to take 1190 silent at the end of March. The purpose was to find a new transmitter site, with no idea of when. Could be a change of plans, cancelling the license instead. What are the possibilities of even finding a new site, let alone all the costs in doing so? Maybe it was decided that it just wasn't worth it.
If it's a license cancellation, that's all I can say.