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WSB 750 And The Shopping Mall Parking Lot Lights

GeoffR said:
So how is it that WSB-AM's transmitter site is surrounded by a shopping center? Cox (or an earlier owner) used to own all of that land and sold it, boxing in the tower?
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My guess is that Cox leased the land to the shopping center on a long-term, 99-year-type lease. The term and terms of the lease probably were dependent on who shelled out the money to update the ground system and connect it to the buildings.
 
Old Atlanta Journal van when WSB-TV was on channel 8 and WSB-FM was at 104.5. The Constitution had allocations for TV on channel 2 and FM on 98.5, so Cox moved TV and FM to them when they bought the Constitution and gave the other allocations back to the FCC.
 

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GeoffR said:
So how is it that WSB-AM's transmitter site is surrounded by a shopping center?
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Building a ground system is basically attempting to create "the other half of a dipole".

Most of my competitors in Ecuador in the 60's had a buried car radiator or something similar as the ground system. They covered the market just fine. I've seen stations with towers in a salt flat or actually in the ocean... they drive a bunch of copper rods into the ground around the tower and they do great. KTNQ in LA has its ground system about 25 feet in the air, and it is a mesh over the roofs and parking areas of a group of warehouses; coverage did not change when that was done.
 
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