KTUB close to having a new home

[CAwasinNJ]

KTUB went silent on April 9, but the interesting news is that they report they have an agreement in principle for triplexing with KNIT 1320 and KJJC 1230. That would give them a very good signal in the heart of Salt Lake County and should still be able to cover their community of license of Centerville. I'll be interested to see what their coverage pattern looks like.

The website for Juan 1600 is still active and streaming. I have no idea if Alpha will put that format back on the air once there's air to put it back on, but I can't think of a better alternative.

[kenglish]

I just saw this post. I have to wonder if there will be intermod issues with stacking more frequencies on that one tower, with all those apartments just across the fence.
Also, how tall is that tower?

[CAwasinNJ]

The tower is 50.3 meters. That would be 165 feet.

There's still no application for KTUB's new site.

[kenglish]

I wonder if anyone has considered doing a huge flagpole in a large parking lot, for something like that. A big supermarket lot would get the tower away from residential buildings, lowering the potential blanketing interference, especially with only lower powered stations. A proper ground system could be implemented during the initial building construction.
Sort of like the WSB tower in Atlanta, but with a lot more control.

I talked to Colonial Flag, who does custom steel poles up to 300 feet. For reference, the Macey's Grocery poles are usually 120 feet, like the one near me at 5600 S and 900 East in Murray.

I also wonder if something like a steel flagpole would work well, to get KMRI-1550 back on, and more importantly get 1010 back to a useable night power.

[CAwasinNJ]

You're pretty much describing a temporary antenna, are you not? In fact the most recent STA for KMRI describes it as "rigid steel tubing."

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The new antenna will be 60 meters tall, or about 200 feet. I'm not an engineer but a generic steel pole seems like it would work, but something designed to radiate at AM frequencies would be better. I'm not sure what advantage a flagpole would have over a standard tower/antenna. What did you have in mind?