Headline: "KRFC set to flip the switch on new radio signal, doubling broadcast reach"
Erin Udell, Fort Collins Coloradoan May 11, 2022.
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"KRFC 88.9 FM is coming to an airwave near — and far from — you. After years of work and fundraising, the Fort Collins-based community radio station will flip the switch at its new radio tower at 1 p.m. Thursday, launching a 50-kilowatt radio signal and doubling its broadcast reach in the process. The new signal will reach north to the Wyoming border, south down the Interstate 25 corridor to north Denver, past Greeley to the east and portions of Boulder County to the south and west, KRFC Executive Director Jen Parker told the Coloradoan on Wednesday......" (more)
Of note... "Parker estimated the change will make the station's monthly power bills go from $400 to about $2,000. "
An observation. Please look at the photos. The top bay of the antenna is obviously at the very "tippy-top" of the tower, adjacent to lightning rod. Normally there's a least 5' below the tower top for the highest bay thus preventing irregularities in the pattern. If this is for a directional pattern it definitely looks like a bogus installation.
Erin Udell, Fort Collins Coloradoan May 11, 2022.
KRFC set to flip the switch on new radio signal, doubling broadcast reach
The Fort Collins-based community radio station is coming to an airwave near - and far from - you.
www.coloradoan.com
"KRFC 88.9 FM is coming to an airwave near — and far from — you. After years of work and fundraising, the Fort Collins-based community radio station will flip the switch at its new radio tower at 1 p.m. Thursday, launching a 50-kilowatt radio signal and doubling its broadcast reach in the process. The new signal will reach north to the Wyoming border, south down the Interstate 25 corridor to north Denver, past Greeley to the east and portions of Boulder County to the south and west, KRFC Executive Director Jen Parker told the Coloradoan on Wednesday......" (more)
Of note... "Parker estimated the change will make the station's monthly power bills go from $400 to about $2,000. "
An observation. Please look at the photos. The top bay of the antenna is obviously at the very "tippy-top" of the tower, adjacent to lightning rod. Normally there's a least 5' below the tower top for the highest bay thus preventing irregularities in the pattern. If this is for a directional pattern it definitely looks like a bogus installation.