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KTWL back on the air

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Mediafrog+

Heard KTWL 105.3 back on the air this afternoon. Improved signal at my Cy-Fair location. Presuming this is from the new site specified in the latest CP.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Heard KTWL 105.3 back on the air this afternoon. Improved signal at my Cy-Fair location. Presuming this is from the new site specified in the latest CP.
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I won't know for sure until I head up to Bellville, Frog, but checking 105-3 yields the same fringe reception of KTWL it always did. Even fringe tends to overstate it, in Acres Home. Happy that they got it repaired and back on the air. That's always been the thing that makes me scratch my head about Henderson. KTWL and KLTR seem to be very well maintained, and seldom have down time. Catastrophe strikes, and within a couple of weeks, it's right back to service. Why couldn't they all be that way?

You know, if it is operating from the new site, the new ID should reflect such. It hadn't changed from Hempstead, last I paid attention to Texas Mix at the TOH. At that point, it was still IDing as KTWL Hempstead, Tomball, Magnolia. This has been a few months back now. I don't have much of a hankering for country music, so I rarely listen to it. KTWL was so much better when Roy Henderson was pretending his Hempstead FM was closer to The Woodlands than it actually was. Or is. Or will be.

I liked Bob.
 
It's hard to figure the economics on this tiny move east for the broadcast tower of KTWL (K-The-Wood-Lands). Output power drops from 9.2 KW to 8 KW while the tower height drops from 146 meters to 120. The result is that The Woodlands and I-45 will remain beyond the eastern edge of the new primary service territory. How many listeners will notice this difference . . .
New signal pattern => https://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=h...TX&fileno=BMPH-20160510AAU&.kml&ignoreoptin=1
Old signal pattern => https://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=h...e=TX&fileno=BLH-19990804KD&.kml&ignoreoptin=1
 
Is it on the new site? I still haven't made a trip up to Bellville. It isn't fading away here in the 4-4, like it did before it fell. It's weak here at my QTH, but it's constant. That's a slight difference for the better, but not much.
 
Comes in very well here at 45 and 99. I wonder if they're fixing up KROY, too... I've heard similar programming as what's on KTWL bleeding its way over KVST within the last week or so.
 
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