What happen to the KPIG signal in San Francisco?

[DavidKaye]

It could be heard but it was an AM signal, and with few exceptions (such as SF Giants ballgames) people don't listen to AM anymore. Had KPIG been on SF in the Bay Area they might have had ratings comparable to Monterey. Maybe. However, that's not a guarantee, either. They tried it in Chico on FM and it bombed.

I meant to say, "Had KPIG been on FM in the Bay Area...."

 

[jhimbo]

The hippies did not "represent". Isn't AM the new anti-establishment?

 

[Starbucks]

I believe that at least part of the antennas are inside that building.

Right. An antenna inside the building? It's been awhile since I had a laugh. And after reading that, you shake your head. Ever hear of radiation cancer? I wouldn't want to work in a place with a tower behind me radiating 2500 W. Just a 1000 w tube can heat the room.

The 5 towers of 1020 and 1150 AM in Los Angeles are partly "inside" a set of buildings. The 5-tower KTNQ array had a warehouse complex built around it, with the towers in "wells" with walls on all four sides... so from the roof, you look down to the tower base with 20-something foot walls around each one. The walls have part of the ground system on them, and a counterpoise system covers roofs and is strung above the parking and dock areas of the warehouses.

Many of us in radio have worked at stations with the transmitter and the studio at the same location. In many cases, the tower for AM was just a few feet from the building, or the FM antenna was just a matter of feet above it. Unless the walls and roof are a perfect Faraday shield, it's the same thing as having the tower inside the building...
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I have worked at a station or 2 with the towers at the same location...but way in the backyard. But the towers right next to you or under a roof? Number one that would cause RF over your production equipment, and even over the headset. Unless it's filtered properly, but who would put an AM or FM tower signal inside a building?

 

[LibertyNT]

I have worked at a station or 2 with the towers at the same location...but way in the backyard. But the towers right next to you or under a roof? Number one that would cause RF over your production equipment, and even over the headset. Unless it's filtered properly, but who would put an AM or FM tower signal inside a building?

I've actually read somewhere on this board where that was a problem, and only the loudest of records could be played at the station.

But I don't remember which station it was.

 

[DavidKaye]

The 5 towers of 1020 and 1150 AM in Los Angeles are partly "inside" a set of buildings.

But this is clearly NOT the case with the former KPIG 1510. The towers are plainly visible on the roof of the warehouse as you drive by. In fact, the towers are plainly visible on Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...484,-122.287225&spn=0.00068,0.001717&t=h&z=20

 

[LibertyNT]

The 5 towers of 1020 and 1150 AM in Los Angeles are partly "inside" a set of buildings.

But this is clearly NOT the case with the former KPIG 1510. The towers are plainly visible on the roof of the warehouse as you drive by. In fact, the towers are plainly visible on Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...484,-122.287225&spn=0.00068,0.001717&t=h&z=20

Thats actually pretty cool!