[BC] dark tower KSTN

[Cowboy]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 12:15 am, PeterH wrote:

>  As many may know, the east side of the site was sold for a K-Mart  
>  parking lot and the array was reduced to 9 towers.
>  
>  This resulted in the 50 kW day array having to be moved from the east- 
>  most nine towers to the remaining 9 towers, what were the original  
>  west-most 9 towers.

 As recently as, was it three years ago ? It was STILL licensed as 12
 towers, even though the K-mart had become some other chain some
 years before.

 We retained the towers themselves, and the building, ( mostly ) but
 virtually every other part of the old system was scrapped and replaced.
 Transmitter, phasor, ATU's, coax, even the power lines to the switch
 gear at the towers. New lighting, everything.
 Tom Jones and I got it tuned, and for the first time it's finally licensed
 as the 9 tower that it's really been for, I don't even know how long.

 This one where a good deal of the array phasing is in buried coax.
 Separate lines ( for different phasing ) day and night.

 AND, a couple of resonant freeway light poles less than 1/2 mile
 away, in front of the major lobe, AND a resonant cell pole a couple
 hundred feet slightly off that lobe.

 It was a fun tune !

-- 
Cowboy