[BC] KFI Tower replacement ?

[Scott Fybush]

>Both Peter Haas and Dana Puopolo have proposed using more than one of KBRT's
>three towers. Using only two of KBRT's towers, it would be a slam dunk to
>produce a cardioid pattern that would yield the same field intensity as
>KFI's licensed tower over a broad arc centered around an azimuth of 75
>degrees. I suspect, though, that if that were done, avoiding increased
>interference to co-channel stations at night (and maybe a first adjacent or
>two by day) might require a power reduction because I think the coverage
>from the island location would be surprisingly better than that from the
>licensed location.

There's one bright spot in that respect - the 660 up near San Luis 
Obispo, KGDP Orcutt, will shortly be moving from that very coastal 
location to Oildale, near Bakersfield, a hundred miles or so inland. 
I'd think that leaves KIDD 630 up in Monterey and XESS 620 in 
Tijuana, and perhaps KIRN 670 in Simi Valley, as the adjacent-channel 
concerns from a huge offshore KFI signal.

There's nothing co-channel to KFI at night until you get to Belgrade 
MT, Moore OK and Ames IA.

s