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KYET Wants To Move

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KYET ( silent ) has applied to move from Williams to Golden Valley,

and change frequency from 1180 kHz. to 1170 kHz. 6 kW days / 1 watt nights.
 
What possible reason would a station apply for a nighttime power of 1 watt? Perhaps as a placeholder for future increase?
 
Williams...then Golden Valley (Kingman).

Does anyone else smell "small town near Vegas" at the next move?
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Williams...then Golden Valley (Kingman).

Does anyone else smell "small town near Vegas" at the next move?
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Moving to 1170 from 1180 actually makes that more complicated, because now there are third-adjacent protections to 1140 in Vegas at play.

Also, once KYET becomes the sole local service to Golden Valley, it can't be moved again unless something else (say, one of the Kingman FMs) changes COL to Golden Valley.
 
Scott Fybush said:
...once KYET becomes the sole local service to Golden Valley, it can't be moved again unless something else (say, one of the Kingman FMs) changes COL to Golden Valley.
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Point taken on being stuck in Lodi, er, Golden Valley. Of course, "a nice honorarium
from the, uh, student fund," to one of the Kingman FMs to move their COL might
solve the local service problem--which is pretty much a sham these days, isn't it?

I mean, what kind of local service is tendered to Dewey-Humboldt, AZ when its FM
is really rimshotting Phoenix. Or a TV station licensed to Mesa (cough...KPNX...cough)
that pretty much ignores its COL in favor of...did we mention Phoenix? At least it's
finally IDing properly, after all these years of "KPNX Phoenix-Mesa." ::)


Moving to 1170 from 1180 actually makes that more complicated, because now there are
third-adjacent protections to 1140 in Vegas at play.
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Are AM third-adjacents all that critical in the same metro? For example, there are a
number of "thirds" in the Phoenix market: 710 to 740, 1280 to (currently dormant)
1310, and 1480 to 1510 to 1540. Even if all were running I-CRAP, they're still 10 kHz
to the good. (Not that there's anything good about I-CRAP. :mad:)
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Moving to 1170 from 1180 actually makes that more complicated, because now there are
third-adjacent protections to 1140 in Vegas at play.
Click to expand...

Are AM third-adjacents all that critical in the same metro? For example, there are a
number of "thirds" in the Phoenix market: 710 to 740, 1280 to (currently dormant)
1310, and 1480 to 1510 to 1540. Even if all were running I-CRAP, they're still 10 kHz
to the good. (Not that there's anything good about I-CRAP. :mad:)
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You can't overlap 25 mV/m contours between third-adjacents. That's why 1510 is so far north, for instance. 1140 in Vegas is also at the northern end of the metro, so an 1170 might work from the southern end. There are other factors at play, too - co-channel with KCBQ San Diego, for instance. Not to mention the massive overbuilding of the Vegas AM dial...
 
If the FCC’s new leaders and Congress get their new “Localism” paradigm in place, it will be next to impossible to do this kind of move.
 
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