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KRKO Towers Go Back Up

Good, if there's two groups of people I don't like it's PETA and Eco-Terrorists, a pair of groups of really weird people to be honest; and as for the fact that radio towers supposedly cause health effects and stuff like that, doesn't cigarettes, sunlight, UV rays and a bunch of other things I can't remember cause that too? Also, has there been any proof radio antennas and towers cause adverse effects to health? if they had any evidence of that, then I could see them wanting to not have the towers up, but if not, why are they complaining?

Now I haven't lived anywhere near any radio towers, but I have been in places where they are radio antennas and I haven't really had any health problems, so it's kind of a moot point; I really don't want to argue, but i'm just saying. As for the 50,000 watt signal, any chance it will reach Tacoma? I mean i've tried it out in the car on a trip back from the San Juans and it reaches Northern Seattle(of course I was using a walkman so...).
 
Scoobyfan1 said:
Good, if there's two groups of people I don't like it's PETA and Eco-Terrorists, a pair of groups of really weird people to be honest; and as for the fact that radio towers supposedly cause health effects and stuff like that, doesn't cigarettes, sunlight, UV rays and a bunch of other things I can't remember cause that too? Also, has there been any proof radio antennas and towers cause adverse effects to health? if they had any evidence of that, then I could see them wanting to not have the towers up, but if not, why are they complaining?

Now I haven't lived anywhere near any radio towers, but I have been in places where they are radio antennas and I haven't really had any health problems, so it's kind of a moot point; I really don't want to argue, but i'm just saying. As for the 50,000 watt signal, any chance it will reach Tacoma? I mean i've tried it out in the car on a trip back from the San Juans and it reaches Northern Seattle(of course I was using a walkman so...).
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Not particularly good in Tacoma (the splashover from 1360 - especially around Fife, makes KRKO listening even at 34,000 watts - it's daytime power, a real chore. If 1400 was still in Tacoma, I'd forget it completely.)

It covers Snohomish County pretty good, especially in the terrestrial radio unfriendly nooks and crannies of SnoCo like Darrington and Granite Falls (that was the whole point of the power increase.) where Bellingham/Victoria FMs come in far better than anything from anywhere else. Oddly, in Mount Vernon, KRKO at it's highest power level didn't come in very well......
 
Bongwater said:
Scoobyfan1 said:
Good, if there's two groups of people I don't like it's PETA and Eco-Terrorists, a pair of groups of really weird people to be honest; and as for the fact that radio towers supposedly cause health effects and stuff like that, doesn't cigarettes, sunlight, UV rays and a bunch of other things I can't remember cause that too? Also, has there been any proof radio antennas and towers cause adverse effects to health? if they had any evidence of that, then I could see them wanting to not have the towers up, but if not, why are they complaining?

Now I haven't lived anywhere near any radio towers, but I have been in places where they are radio antennas and I haven't really had any health problems, so it's kind of a moot point; I really don't want to argue, but i'm just saying. As for the 50,000 watt signal, any chance it will reach Tacoma? I mean i've tried it out in the car on a trip back from the San Juans and it reaches Northern Seattle(of course I was using a walkman so...).
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Not particularly good in Tacoma (the splashover from 1360 - especially around Fife, makes KRKO listening even at 34,000 watts - it's daytime power, a real chore. If 1400 was still in Tacoma, I'd forget it completely.)

It covers Snohomish County pretty good, especially in the terrestrial radio unfriendly nooks and crannies of SnoCo like Darrington and Granite Falls (that was the whole point of the power increase.) where Bellingham/Victoria FMs come in far better than anything from anywhere else. Oddly, in Mount Vernon, KRKO at it's highest power level didn't come in very well......
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Yeah, I didn't think so; although i've been to Monroe before and KRKO has a really good signal, that's the problem with Tacoma, we have 1360 with such a strong signal which pretty much nulifies KRKO or any chance of that signal getting down here in the South end, which is really a shame because I can't stand spanish radio stations, I kind of think there are too many of them to be honest.

Frankly if I had the money I would buy a spanish station, maybe 1480/1490 or 1360 and turn it into a combination sports/talk station, kind of like the Buzz 2.0, in order to bring good locally owned radio back to Tacoma.
 
I still dont quite understand what 50 grand worth of juice on an AM stick is going to do for a station that has somewhat empty programming. Leading the horse to water argument..The format, whatever it is exactly doesnt really have a daily draw. A year from now they'll know if it was all worth it when the book comes out.

As far as the health arguments about KRKO's new location, its mostly built from a grass roots base of those who can only argue about what they see. I will say this..When I was working at the old and long forgotten KRAB (the ORIGINAL 107.7!) in the donut shop on Roosevelt hill, the transmitter was literally a foot from your nose. Noisy and smelled bad.. You used to get little RF shocks when you touched certain parts of the board. KRAB was always the most out of compliance station on the west coast. I used to go home at night and my face was bright red and my skin would tingle for a few hours. Bloodshot eyes..the whole bit. That was after a 3-4 hour button pushing shift..or when ever Tiny came back from the bar..
 
Scoobyfan1 said:
Frankly if I had the money I would buy a spanish station, maybe 1480/1490 or 1360 and turn it into a combination sports/talk station, kind of like the Buzz 2.0, in order to bring good locally owned radio back to Tacoma.
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Didn't they do that with the original 850 K-H2O? (Where KHHO originally got it's bizarre call letters....)
 
Bongwater said:
Scoobyfan1 said:
Frankly if I had the money I would buy a spanish station, maybe 1480/1490 or 1360 and turn it into a combination sports/talk station, kind of like the Buzz 2.0, in order to bring good locally owned radio back to Tacoma.
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Didn't they do that with the original 850 K-H2O? (Where KHHO originally got it's bizarre call letters....)
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They did; but it's been a while since KH20 switched to all sports, so I think that the idea could be tried again, especially since every tacoma radio station either has moved to seattle, been taken over by other groups, or gone spanish
 
great news...now all us radio-info geniuses can speculate again what kind of format will emerge at 1520 AM. will it be hispanic sports, or muslamic niche programming "mosque talk 1520"? its been said, no one apparantly tunes into AM radio right hand side, and gut bucket country cant make it with just one hillbilly, steering wheel holder, named scott as a listener.

also, if any of you radio-info geniuses, with the CB handle nicknames to hide your identity(the bitter employees who couldnt keep a job in radio, or get a job in radio-bj shay quote, "kisw morning survey", reply #38) are in the video surveilance business? please contact: KRKO owner mr. skotdal. hmm...i smell a potential business deal. if you know what i mean.

at any rate, we applaud the great broadcasting news from the land of independent KRKO.

-scott
 
I would hope surveillance is built in to the new set-up. If nothing else, worth it just to assist the FBI in case of Tower Redux. Considering a $25K reward ... you can put together a pretty solid surveillance system with that budget.
 
LITTLEBOYBLUE said:
I would hope surveillance is built in to the new set-up. If nothing else, worth it just to assist the FBI in case of Tower Redux. Considering a $25K reward ... you can put together a pretty solid surveillance system with that budget.
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I'm sure Mr. Skotdal is hip enough by now to know all this. Trust me, any punks come high-steppin' with their oil powered bulldozers and CFC filled spray paint back there again ain't got a lot to talk about when it comes to the environment.......
 
I bet 1370s and 1390s like KJOX 1390 Yakima, 1370 KAST Astoria won't like IBOC just bleeding onto their transmitters nights. 50kw on 1380 will block any chance of KTKZ Sacramento or KSRV Ontario, OR.

-crainbebo
 
For 50,000 watts, they didn't come in very well at night in Skagit/Whatcom counties before the tower incident. Hope they'll fix that.
 
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