[BC] AMs on top of buildings

[Mike McCarthy]

Chicago has:

WSBC x 2 (1240), WAIT (820), WNTD (950), WPNA (1490)

MM

> Ten or15 years ago, I measured the base impedance of WMFR in High 
Point, NC,
> located atop a 7 or 9 storey building; AFAIK,it's still there. Their
> engineer used to be on this list or Radio Tech.................
> M
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg at att.net>
> To: <wharms at comcast.net>
> Cc: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 10:03 PM
> Subject: [BC] AMs on top of buildings
> 
> 
>  > I believe that there are three in Chicago alone: 820 and 1240 are 
a diplex
>  > and 950 (days only) is the third with a conventional array at a 
separate
>  > night site (if you can call any six-tower in-line array 
conventional--they
>  > are quite rare). In LA, KYPA 1230 had moved off of its 70+ year-
old L
>  > rooftop antenna to a diplex from one tower of co-owned 1580's six-
tower
>  > array, but that meant moving farther from the target audience 
(Korean
>  > speakers?) and after complaints about poor reception, the station 
has
>  > reportedly moved back to its old facilities. KMZT 1510 licensed to
> Piedmont
>  > CA (near Oakland) has the US's only true rooftop DA (in Oakland), I
> believe
> 
> 
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