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Name that tower

Mike Sheridan said:
Radio-Locator also shows that WKPX the FM at Piper High has a CP to go from 3KW to 25KW directional.
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Yeah, this is true...the station is now run by BEACON which is the School Board's Television entity. Though the studios and transmitter are still inside Piper High, Piper High lost autonomy on the station a long time ago. So I can see BEACON being more agressive in boosting the signal, as its always been a bit of a jealousy thing with the Dade School Board and their having 91.3 WLRN. Beacon/Broward School Board are obviously shooting for a station on level ground with the Dade School Board. The current tower is attached to the side of a wall at Piper...and there is no land out there for a directional antenna array. Obviously, the transmitter/tower will have to be relocated.

I seem to remember reading about a School Board boondoggle on a bad land deal of useless swamp land pretty much, in the Sun Sentinel...can't remember where that land was, I know it way out in West Broward. Wanna bet that's where the new WKPX towers would be?
 
FM only needs a single tower for a directional since the antenna is mounted on the tower. I could see WKPX leasing space on the old 102.7 stick at Rock Island Road.
 
Radio-Locator also shows that WKPX the FM at Piper High has a CP to go from 3KW to 25KW directional.
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That would be a great site for the station. Talk about an underused frequency!
 
Mike Sheridan said:
FM only needs a single tower for a directional since the antenna is mounted on the tower. I could see WKPX leasing space on the old 102.7 stick at Rock Island Road.
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Yeah, from the ground and without binoculars, they look like any other FM antenna... just the little parasitic elements that make it directional.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
FM only needs a single tower for a directional since the antenna is mounted on the tower. I could see WKPX leasing space on the old 102.7 stick at Rock Island Road.
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LOL...yeah, Mike you're right....this thread is all over the place....and I mixed up my thoughts about towers...ooops. I like the WKPX leasing space idea on the old 102.7 stick. That's a great idea. Really great.
 
[size=10pt][size=10pt][size=10pt][size=10pt][size=10pt]I lost track of who has 99.5 these days, but I believe the WJBW calls are alive and well somewhere in the CBS chain, on one of their WPB stations, right?[/size][/size][/size][/size][/size]

A few years ago, CBS parked their WNEW calls on 106.3, which had been WJBW-FM. The WJBW calls remain on AM 1000 in Jupiter.
 
The southwestern most "1470 Soul" stick is heavilly loaded with cell phone platforms. Half of the old 102.7 elements are gone as are the WB4MWW/rpt antennæ. The AM daytime protection is for the two second adjacent graveyarders in Miami. In my perfect world, graveyard channel AM's would be treated with all the respect currently given to LPFM and LPTV stations. We participated in doing the antenna proof which got them on at night. Bob Barnett (WB4MWW) was the CE at the time. He had also set up 990 in Orlando. Another guy who worked on the project, Richard Wood (K4GWH) was involved in a motorcycle accident shortly afterward and suffered severe and permanent brain damage.
 
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