Which station is it?

[Watercooler]

Ok I was driving thru Texas and saw what appered to be and AM and FM in Garland TX what station is it? I figured it was an am becuase I saw detunes on the power poles.

 

[Huey long]

Sounds like the old KBOX

 

[grantchester]

KRLD is in Garland. They have a two-tower array. One of the towers may still have the old KRLD-FM antenna.

 

[jd]

The one with the mast on it is KRLD's daytime tower. The antenna was used in the early days of Channel 4 until they joined up with WFAA-TV at Cedar Hill in the mid 1950's; I believe that the old KRLD-FM was downtown on the old "Herald Square" tower until they also moved to Cedar Hill. Scott Fybush has pictures of the KRLD transmitter site on his "Tower Site of the Week": www.fybush.com/site-021114.html

 

[Watercooler]

yeah it was KRLD I can tell by the picture thanks I was wondering on who it could be.

 

[317C50KW]

When the high voltage lines that run along Garland Rd were rebuilt in the 1990's they played massive havoc with KRLD's pattern. All the new poles within a mile or so of the 1080 site had to be de-tuned with what look like unipole skirts to make them invisible to KRLD. Poor planning on someone's part no doubt.

 

[CW]

When the high voltage lines that run along Garland Rd were rebuilt in the 1990's they played massive havoc with KRLD's pattern. All the new poles within a mile or so of the 1080 site had to be de-tuned with what look like unipole skirts to make them invisible to KRLD. Poor planning on someone's part no doubt.

IIRC that is a 138KV line....the original poles were probably wooden...I THINK the current ones are steel...and steel VERTICAL poles really create havoc...Not poor planning as TXU (or DP&L at the time) had to run them somehow.....KRLD is just in an area that has seen massive growth and a lot of times this happens to AMs in metro areas..

 

[OKCRadioGuy]

A couple years ago we caught our local electric utility changing out to metal poles near our night-time directional 50k and got them to stop switching out the poles to metal. It took quite a bit of arguing, but eventually they agreed to use wood in close to the array. The C.E. certainly doged a HUGE bullet because we were paying attention and took a proactive approach. One big selling point for them was putting skirts on metal poles would have been a nightmare for them when they needed to service the lines, etc.

 

[CW]

A couple years ago we caught our local electric utility changing out to metal poles near our night-time directional 50k and got them to stop switching out the poles to metal. It took quite a bit of arguing, but eventually they agreed to use wood in close to the array. The C.E. certainly doged a HUGE bullet because we were paying attention and took a proactive approach. One big selling point for them was putting skirts on metal poles would have been a nightmare for them when they needed to service the lines, etc.

There is a federal rule that requires notification to AM station of any metal structure construction or modification within a certain distance of that station. BUT it is never followed because noone reads the rules...EVEN wooden poles could cause a problem if the downguys or the static downlead (neutral) is long and thich enough to cause an issue. Also if the pole has enough metal hanging off it (transformer bank, switches, etc).....You were damn lucky to catch them! I remember when a new cell tower got built 3 miles away but right in line with 1190's night site pattern a number of years ago...it just popped up with no detuning, etc....needless to say the null toward WOWO has not been there for some time....and nothing was ever done about it afaik.