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I work for KYYZ-FM. We have an AM sister, on 660.. KEYZ. Well, KEYZ wasn't always on 660! About 15 years ago is when it landed on 660, after having spent its life on 1360. KEYZ has a 4 tower array north of town. Well, SW of town is the 3 tower array, still standing, for 1360, complete with doghouses and a transmitter shack.. and transmitter inside!!The 1360 site is a few miles away from KUMV TV8, Prarie Public TV/Radio and The CBS Affiliate transmitter sites.. those 3 are within about 1/2 mile of each other.
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
I work for KYYZ-FM. We have an AM sister, on 660.. KEYZ. Well, KEYZ wasn't always on 660! About 15 years ago is when it landed on 660, after having spent its life on 1360. KEYZ has a 4 tower array north of town. Well, SW of town is the 3 tower array, still standing, for 1360, complete with doghouses and a transmitter shack.. and transmitter inside!!The 1360 site is a few miles away from KUMV TV8, Prarie Public TV/Radio and The CBS Affiliate transmitter sites.. those 3 are within about 1/2 mile of each other.
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Can you get in there? Talk about a turn-key pirate radio station just waiting to be fired up... :) -- Jason
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
I work for KYYZ-FM. We have an AM sister, on 660.. KEYZ. Well, KEYZ wasn't always on 660! About 15 years ago is when it landed on 660, after having spent its life on 1360. KEYZ has a 4 tower array north of town. Well, SW of town is the 3 tower array, still standing, for 1360, complete with doghouses and a transmitter shack.. and transmitter inside!!The 1360 site is a few miles away from KUMV TV8, Prarie Public TV/Radio and The CBS Affiliate transmitter sites.. those 3 are within about 1/2 mile of each other.
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Need to retune the array for 1800-1900 and rent it out to a 160m ham ;) Talk about a monster signal! I would love to get my hands on that for the 160m contests....wow!
 
Apparently, the former owner of KYYZ-FM and KEYZ-FM, Chuck Scofield is a Ham operator! He still owns that land and those towers, I wonder what he uses it for.... hmmm :)
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
Apparently, the former owner of KYYZ-FM and KEYZ-FM, Chuck Scofield is a Ham operator! He still owns that land and those towers, I wonder what he uses it for.... hmmm :)
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Why not talk with him about that? He and/or the local Ham radio club could use the towers for 160 meter operation.Also, one tower could even be used for legal unlicensed AM broadcasting. Just set up a Rangemaster AM1000 Part 15 AM transmitter with its 8.5' whip antenna next to the tower, then adjust the tower's matching network so that it would act as a parasitic radiator excited by the whip. If you chose an AM frequency for which the tower is 3/8 wavelength or 1/2 wavelength tall (with the highest current point well above the ground), it could possibly be heard for miles. -- Jason
 
It might be heard for miles, but at that location, a part 15 transmitter would serve about 5 people *grins*
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
Apparently, the former owner of KYYZ-FM and KEYZ-FM, Chuck Scofield is a Ham operator! He still owns that land and those towers, I wonder what he uses it for.... hmmm :)
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i would have the biggest uhf/vhf/fm antenna i could find up on top of one of those
and another at a different height

i lived on the 18th floor of a highrise and had my channel master 4228 with a clear view to the east and s/e
i would watch WCFT Tuscaloosa Al. 24 hrs a day at what maybe 250 miles
at night and often during the day i could watch WCBI-dt
unfortunatly fm was useless at my location as i was just a few air miles from several 100kw sticks and 2 or 3 miles from a class a
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
I work for KYYZ-FM. We have an AM sister, on 660.. KEYZ. Well, KEYZ wasn't always on 660! About 15 years ago is when it landed on 660, after having spent its life on 1360. KEYZ has a 4 tower array north of town. Well, SW of town is the 3 tower array, still standing, for 1360, complete with doghouses and a transmitter shack.. and transmitter inside!!The 1360 site is a few miles away from KUMV TV8, Prarie Public TV/Radio and The CBS Affiliate transmitter sites.. those 3 are within about 1/2 mile of each other.
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There's another unused array not that far from Williston, or at least there was about five years ago. The CKX-1150 facility still stood just west of Brandon, Manitoba, though the station had long since moved to 101.1 FM.

1360 in Williston is far more likely to someday reappear.
 
The last time I was there (a few months ago) the single stick of WTQX-1570 was still standing in Selma, AL. That station has been dark for several years. I heard that someone dug up the ground system and sold it for scrap when the station was still broadcasting!
 
Oh wow! That 1570 array is stil lstanding? s**t.... I wonder whos paying the taxes on it.

The former owner of KEYZ 1360 lives in Billings so it's not a far trip for a weekend of ham useage out at that site :)
 
2 towers of the old KYDE-1590 AM array are still standing (with vines growing up about 1/3 of the way up) on U.S. Highway 79B-North in Pine Bluff, AR - across from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
 
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