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(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 18)
George McClintock tells me he has filed an application for a new SW
station near Nashville, TN. He is the former GM and still a partner at
WWCR, and also has been managing KAIJ near Dallas.
On Jan 31, FCC accepted the application for filing, the first step. Studio
will be in Murfreesboro TN, the same location from which KAIJ has been
programmed; transmitter site at Lebanon TN. Lebanon and Murfreesboro form
a triangle with Nashville, east and southeast of it. The application calls
for one Harris SW100 transmitter to a rhombic at 50 degrees, which will
cover Europe as well as parts of Africa, and the USA.
Further plans are for a total of two or three transmitters; the
application can be amended if necessary. The company is called Leap of
Faith, Inc., get it? And the preferred call letters would be WLOF, altho
these are currently held by a religious FM station in Attica, New York, on
101.7. They would have to agree to WLOF also being used by a station on
another band, which is technically allowed, but seldom authorized by FCC;
or might be willing to relinquish the calls.
It is difficult to predict exactly when the new station would start
broadcasting, but it could take some three months to grant the CP and at
least another two months to build it. Some clients have already been lined
up. `WLOF` would not be totally religious, but would have programming from
political and other entities which have not been on SW before. Political
programming would likely skew to the right of center, simply because there
is not much money or interest on the Left in SW broadcasting. The station
could be useful in the 2008 presidential campaign, as soon as it can be on
the air.
George credits his experience with KAIJ in developing new sources of
shortwave programming and revenue, never explored before, a good
experiment. As for KAIJ itself, owner Mike Parker says it will definitely
be returning to the air, but not known exactly when. Operational rather
than technical problems are causing the delay. At least initially,it will
probably resume programming as before, run out of the Murfreesboro studio,
altho Parker will be taking care of further sales and programming
development there, with George handling engineering. The Dallas lawyer`s
website gh uncovered mentioning KAIJ in a bankruptcy proceeding took place
several years ago, not recently. KAIJ's webstream is supposed to be active
again, following crashes of two computers handling it.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, via dswci via RadioDX NZDXT Mar 17)
THE KFI TOWER COLLAPSES - AGAIN.
The main tower for KFI, 640 kHz, Los Angeles, was hit by a private
airplane on December 19, 2004 and the entire tower came crashing to the
ground, folding into pieces and missing (for the most part) buildings
around the tower base. Last week, construction of the replacement tower
got underway. Today, the new tower had almost reached the 300 foot mark
when it, too, collapsed. An eyewitness report follows.
EYEWITNESS REPORT ON THE KFI TOWER COLLAPSE
It saddens me to report that a single point failure caused the new KFI
tower to fall this afternoon around 2:00PM. I was on site when the failure
happened and took a photo of the tower coming down. Two levels of guys
were in place. The third level guys were slowly being brought into place,
in unison, when the failure occurred. The tower was just under 300' at the
time.
Nobody was on the tower during this phase of the installation and only one
person was hurt when the North/East guy structure gave way. There was some
minor damage to a couple of trailers and the top 8' of the gin pole came