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KRCM in the Woodlands now?
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Yes..construction was finished on the new transmitter site barely in time before the CP expired on May 15th. Their application for license (FCC Form 302) was accepted for filing on May 27th. Unless something goes very wrong, they should be granted a license as a Shenandoah station soon. What Voice Broadcasting does with the facility is anyone's guess.
stan said:
There has been some confusion about this one due to a number of modifications to applications along the way. The Conroe site along loop 336 was in the original proposal back in 2004 and it was for 600 watts daytime only; there was also a proposal that called for 480 watts daytime (and 7 at night?) but I can't locate that one. Unless something changed*, the authorized site (in the proposal for 250 day/69 watts night) is about four miles east of I-45 and a little over a mile south of 242 near the Tamina community.
In looking back through the paperwork I noticed a lot of things that weren't quite right or had been neglected. For instance, the engineering narrative originally stated that the transmitter site would be about 10 kilometers north of Shenandoah. That would have placed it near the southern edge of Conroe (the 600 watt site?), but in reality the coordinates listed in the approved application correspond with the Tamina site (4 miles, or about 6 km east of Shenandoah). That's a flood plain area, virtually along the western bank of the San Jacinto River, and that subject came up when they applied for the two-tower 10kW directional pattern for daytime. I don't think it had been mentioned previously. In connection with that ill-fated application the consulting engineer admitted that the site had been under about 11 feet of water during flooding back in 1994. I never heard if the environmental issues were fully addressed but if the FCC was really concerned about it, it shouldn't have mattered how many towers would be located there. After all, they had already issued a construction permit for one-tower operation the year before.
(*) I'm open to any corrections on this, but what I see is that the construction permit was issued under the file number BMJP-20050118ADX. If that's correct, it seems that the folks at Radio-Locator were looking at the wrong application (the original from '04, or its later version in '07).
stan said:
Very simple...even as a daytimer, KRCM's worth a hell of a lot more covering a small bit of North Houston than it ever was over in Beaumont. I suspect it'll be sold before the year's out.
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purpledevil
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It is not on the air. If Voice turned on the Shenandoah site at any point, it was short lived. The new station should hit my workplace without any problem. I check it everyday...as any good radio nerd would...and it's never been there. I caught KRCM one time a while back, posted here, and found out I was picking up the Beaumont signal from stan. If it's now off in Beaumont, it's off period.
Knowing the short time frame they had to get the construction work done; my guess is that they didn't get it finished before the deadline on the construction permit. If they filed for a license to cover without having finished it correctly, according to the CP; this would be illegal. You have to build it according to what you specified, and the FCC approved, in the application BEFORE you file for a license. They are probably still working on it.
mrbeasley said:
I can say I've seen the site, tower and all. Transmitter building, ATU, etc. Can I testify I've heard it on the air? No, I can't. Several others have said they've done so, however.
I think the tower on Fannett road was damaged around the time of Hurricane Rita, if I recall correctly. The old tower was removed and they put up a temporary tower there for awhile. After the decision to move to the Conroe area, they eventually shut down the broadcasting here in Beaumont and took the temporary tower down.
After the delay in getting on the air at their new location, they filed an application with the FCC to go back on the air in the Beaumont area temporarily at a site northeast of College and Langham in Beaumont, using a long wire antenna, I believe. They simulcast KLBT (88.1 FM) when their audio was working. Often there was dead air, and I don't think I ever heard KRCM used as the legal ID, just the KLBT ID from the simulcast FM broadcast. Of course, I could have missed an ID placed other than at the top of the hour.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=12462
After the delay in getting on the air at their new location, they filed an application with the FCC to go back on the air in the Beaumont area temporarily at a site northeast of College and Langham in Beaumont, using a long wire antenna, I believe. They simulcast KLBT (88.1 FM) when their audio was working. Often there was dead air, and I don't think I ever heard KRCM used as the legal ID, just the KLBT ID from the simulcast FM broadcast. Of course, I could have missed an ID placed other than at the top of the hour.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=12462
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