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New NASA station on 1690?

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Mediafrog+

Spotted this in the January 31 edition of Glenn Hauser's DX Listening Digest http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8013.txt

Has anyone in the NASA area heard this station?
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U S A. NEW LOW-POWER AM STATION AT NASA/JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

There was an e-mail in my inbox this morning at work announcing the
start-up of a low-power emergency radio station that will cover the
NASA/Johnson Space Center (JSC) area (six-mile radius). Here are the
particulars, thanks to JSC's Center Ops Directorate:

FREQ: 1690 kHz
CALL: KHA926
POWER: 10 Watts, normal ops; 30 watts, emergency ops
TRANSMITTER SITE: NASA/Johnson Space Center
ANTENNA HEIGHT: 30 feet

The station is scheduled to go full-time on Feb 1st. Thanks & 73,
(Steve N5WBI Ponder, Houston TX, Jan 29, ABDX via DXLD)
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Spotted this in the January 31 edition of Glenn Hauser's DX Listening Digest http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8013.txt

Has anyone in the NASA area heard this station?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
U S A. NEW LOW-POWER AM STATION AT NASA/JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

There was an e-mail in my inbox this morning at work announcing the
start-up of a low-power emergency radio station that will cover the
NASA/Johnson Space Center (JSC) area (six-mile radius). Here are the
particulars, thanks to JSC's Center Ops Directorate:

FREQ: 1690 kHz
CALL: KHA926
POWER: 10 Watts, normal ops; 30 watts, emergency ops
TRANSMITTER SITE: NASA/Johnson Space Center
ANTENNA HEIGHT: 30 feet

The station is scheduled to go full-time on Feb 1st. Thanks & 73,
(Steve N5WBI Ponder, Houston TX, Jan 29, ABDX via DXLD)
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IT is likely a TIS station......and in emergencies can go to 30watts (Yeah from 10 watts, that'll get em oh about 2 blocks further range :)
 
Hmm....that's interesting. I thought that Univision owned the rights to the expanded 1690 frequency. Did they lose the allocation since they never moved KLAT there?
 
purpledevil said:
Hmm....that's interesting. I thought that Univision owned the rights to the expanded 1690 frequency. Did they lose the allocation since they never moved KLAT there?
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Did a quick search of the FCC database....no 1690 license exists in Texas anywhere (for a broadcast station)...of all the expanded band licenses, Univision does not hold one in Texas.
The NASA license is NOT shown as a TIS.....in fact its not shown at all...probably issued under the NTIA and NOT the FCC.....like the NOAA WX channels are...they have licenses but you cant find them on the FCC database.
 
KLAT missed an opportunity to move to 1690 (and interference from the Waco station on 1010).

But that's just my opinion, or like we say in Puerto Rico "Another Twenty Bucks".
 
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