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KTBL 1050 - REASON for LICENSE to LOS RANCHOS de ABQ ?

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ABQTom

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...hey, I'm new to the market, and as to why KTBL 1050 licensed to LOS RANCHOS de ALBUQUERQUE? My guess is that perhaps 1050 doesn't cover all of Albuquerque at 5mV/m? This weekend at the Wine/Lavender festival I measured the 1050 signal in Los Ranchos. I have an old analog 1-5 dial on an old portable analog radio. Near the southern part of Los Ranchos I got a health reading of 4.0, near the Los Pablanos Farms/Anderson Winery. I know that on my radio, this is well over 5mV/m. Driving north on Rio Grande, I got only 2.6 at the intersection of Alameda (northern city limit of Los Ranchos). That's getting down there, in the 5-7.5 mV/m range. So, 1050 does indeed cover its city of license. But how about Albuquerque? How about field strength in the Heights where you might see some ground conductivity issues - versus the river valley ?
 
KTBL was licensed to Los Ranchos de Albuquerque due to FCC rules at the time which allowed AM applications to be filed only as a first or second service to a "community". At the time there was one other station licensed to Los Ranchos, KLTN (now Disney's 1240), thereby allowing the application to be filed. The application was originally for 500 watts daytime only from the KLTN tower, and was later modified and constructed at 1000 watts daytime / 500 watts nighttime directional 24 hours southwest of town when the FCC changed their rules to allow full time operation on Mexican clear channels. Citadel later applied for 1000 watt nighttime operation, so now the station is 1000 watts full time using the same pattern day and night. It gets hammered at night by 150,000 watt XEG in Monterey, Nuevo Leon, MX.
 
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