[BC] Roof Top Arrays

[PeterH5322@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/26/05 11:33:34 PM, linc at bycx.com writes:

> But, something I thought I would never see, a DA on a roof top, in Oakland
> KPIG is on the roof of a warehouse, 4 tower day - 8 kW, 5 tower night - 230
> watts.? Scott Fybush where are you?


This is yet another of Saul Levine's circle-jerks.

With KGA going DA-2 into a terribly redesigned array, night operation at San 
Rafael's 1510 became feasible, provided the COL was changed to Piedmont, and a 
"first night service" was claimed.

Days, the pattern sends all the power directly towards the north tower of the 
Golden Gate Bridge, due west of the station's downtown Oakland rooftop site.

Nights, the pattern is distorted so that Piedmont, its new COL and due east 
of the site, has a lobe, but the real target market, S.F., due east, gets the 
better of the two main lobes.

Operations on 1510 from this site entails protection of: 1480 (notified, but 
apparently dark), 1490, 1500, 1510 (of course, it's a Class A), 1520 and 1530, 
with most considerations going to 1490, 1500 and 1510.

The "fifth tower" is simply a cable dropped from another cable strung between 
two of the existing four vertical radiators.

Typical of Saul's sloppy "buy ... build ... sell" mentality.