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Temporary director @ FCC. KFMB tower alignment.

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Big 121

Mr. Zears has retired as district director in San Diego. No full time replacement yet. He successfully shut down FreeRadio 96.9 & 106.9 in only three years. Ahead for the new director: blatently overpowered CB stations in east county; the Flagstaff AZ AM pirate; and the KSIQ saga.
Observation: unless it's an optical illusion, 760's middle tower (2) is NOT in alignment with 1 and 3. It's slightly North relative to the others...
 
goo.gl/maps/Ymql

Shows the three 760 KFMB towers in alignment.
 
Eyeballed the towers again at Father J. Trail road; and West Hills H.S. . The middle tower is askew, by maybe 40'. FCC data shows a linear alignment. Obviously not critical for operation, there must be a reason for this.The area's other antenna site, KSDO's 2 X 3 tower array, 4 miles east, is dead-on straight.
 
Big 121 said:
Eyeballed the towers again at Father J. Trail road; and West Hills H.S. . The middle tower is askew, by maybe 40'. FCC data shows a linear alignment. Obviously not critical for operation, there must be a reason for this.The area's other antenna site, KSDO's 2 X 3 tower array, 4 miles east, is dead-on straight.
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Did you contact the FCC about this to ask them what they have to say about it?
 
Big 121 said:
there must be a reason for this
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Too much Rick Roberts will always put you off-kilter.
 
radio-darn said:
Too much Rick Roberts will always put you off-kilter.
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Before ... or ... after the break?
 
If the station is in tolerance with it's pattern and monitor points, it's just paperwork (as in a mod) to correct things. It's pretty odd really that a consultant would have let that happen, but wierd things can and do happen I guess. Pretty dang wierd!
 
I guess the next thing that would be interesting to see is to look up (maybe they have to get it in paper form even) of the original proof when those towers were installed. As screwed up as the FCC is, it wouldn't supprise me that the FCC site somehow goofed up and shows it in line, but it wasn't originally filed that way etc.
 
Something tells me that the FCC on their website has something goofed up. I bet it somehow got screwed up when it was entered from paper over to digital years ago...
 
The FCC CDBS listing for KFMB clearly shows the array to be licensed as a very slight dogleg. Looking at the imagry on Google Maps, I think that what you're seeing is a paralax distortion that makes the towers look as though they were in line. Going to Google Earth and drawing a line between towers one and three clearly shows that they are not in line...
 
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