[BC] WKBW/WGR

[Rob Meuser]

My recollection is there are 5 towers. A 3 inline for KB with GR 
using the outer two and 2 additional for GR. At least one is a self 
support and is the omni tower for GR. At least that's how I remember it.

R

PeterH5322 wrote:

>>That is only a part of the WKBW story. Originally it was co-owned 
>>with 550 WGR. The two stations are co-sited, transmitters in the 
>>same building. WGR shares two of 3 KB towers as part of it 4 tower 
>>night array. The idea, I was told was that 'GR had the great local 
>>coverage with KB serving with skywave at night.
>>
>
>There are only six towers on the site.
>
>Certainly, 550 and 1520 are sharing the SE tower of 550's night array.
>
>1520's array takes less than one-half of the long side of 550's 
>parallelogram (the two arrays have the same bearing, 77/257 degrees).
>
>I would estimate that 550 is using 1520's W tower during days.
>
>1520's array can fit completely within 550's parallelogram array, so 
>they didn't have to share any towers if they didn't want to.