[BC] AM Tower Replacement In a Remote Locale

[wmroradio at bellsouth.net]

The next AM Antenna I get won't be a tower, it will be a Valcom. I'm on the high end of the dial at 1000 watts, daytime, broadcasting to a small town population of 25,000. They told me at Valcom that all I needed was their 75' antenna.

I've spoke to a station in PA that has one on 1600, and they told me they loved it. No maintenance, lighting, painting, unipole wires coming loose, no dealings with the FAA, City & County Codes, neighbors, etc. 

The only question is the bandwidth, but these day with these lousy AM radios, and the AM broadcaster being required to keep slope off the high end at 9.7 Khz, what does it matter.

--
Scott Bailey
President/General Manager
WMRO-AM, Magic 1560
Gallatin, TN

  
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net>
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> On Friday 17 July 2009 02:41 am, Jerry Mathis wrote:
> 
> >  I would recommend the tower not be painted until it is on location, on the
> >  ground. It would probably get very scratched up from the shipping process.
> >  That would also be a good time to patch up the galvanizing that will
> >  probably ALSO be scraped off.
> 
>  I'd recommend pre-paint, and touch-up after erection, as we always do.
> 
> -- 
> Cowboy
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