[BC] KFXR (X-klif) 1190 kHz. 12 tower near Rockwall, TX

[DHultsman5 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/30/2007 9:24:22 PM Central Daylight Time, 
curt at spam-o-matic.net writes:

>  >first is KFXR, with the 'landing strip ' tower array
> > > >
> > > >http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=32.89917,+-96.41306
> > 
> > Wow! 12 towers! That's insane! I thought there was only one of these, and 
> > they took down 3 of theirs a few years ago!
> 

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The McLendons wanted to up their nighttime power. The had a nightime power of 
1 kW. located east of downtown Dallas on Sycene Road in the White Rock Creek 
flood plane.  This was a five tower in-line that was built as a non-D 1 kw 
site at sign on in 1947. the four towers were added later when the received a 1 
kW. nite CP.  They added  5 kW Non-D Day in 1952.   In 1959 they added 50 kW. 
DA using a separate 4 tower day site in Irving, TX  west of Dallas with a 
figure 8 pattern covering both Dallas and Ft. Worth.  

They originally applied for increasing the towers at the night site but the 
commission would not accept their application and design for adding three more 
tower to the night site.  Finally the decision was made to start over with 
another site east of Dallas in line with Ft. Worth.  The design was a 12 tower 
broadside major lobe which was suppossed to make a 50 kW. efficiency in the 
major lobe toward Dallas and Ft. Worth.   We never made the predicted efficiency 
in the field.

Regarding the runway---I believe I have told this tory on this forum before,  
after all the FAA approvals and circulation to all airports in the areas and 
the FCC granting a CP, we received a notice from the FAA regarding a 
determination of air navigation hazard.

A meeting was called and was held in our auditorium and screening room at our 
studios.   The report was from a local airport in the county that specialized 
in weekend gliders.   They had a glider pilot that saw the white road down 
the center of towers with a white road leading up to the building.  Our white 
road was crushed rock the airport runway was white concrete.  The glider pilot 
mistakenly chose our runway and was corrected whilehe still had enough height 
to return to the airport.

If you look at the google map  you will see the 6 pair of towers in line.  
There was a road down the center line between the towers with a circular 
turnaround at each end. There was also a white road up to the building about the size 
of their airport building.

The FAA suggested that we get big black "X's"  painted on the white road at 
the turn arounds and on the road in two places.   We complied using a hiway 
crew with a tar sprayer to make the 24" wide black stripes in the form of an X.   
Within the time the tar weathered away the vegatation cover the white rock as 
cannot see the road in the photograph.

Dave Hultsman
X- KLIF CE


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