[time-nuts] What are these towers?

[Lamar Owen]

On May 20, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
>
> 1070 kHz is also KNX, a 50kW clear channel station in Los Angeles.   
> That might be why the pattern's so small in any direction but  
> southeast at night.
>
> So what is generally south east from Houston.  Galveston, I know,  
> but that's not very far away.  Are they trying to broadcast to Cuba  
> as well? Or the Yucatan peninsula or oil rig  and boat crews out in  
> the gulf?
>

Nah; KNTH is north-north-west of the population center, and thus  
'throws' its pattern toward the population center.  FCC rules require  
a certain field strength for the station's 'city of license' and to do  
that the pattern is pointed towards the population center.  I remember  
hearing some SBE (Society of Broadcast Engineers) friends talking  
about this 'crazy 11 tower array in Texas' years ago; nice to actually  
see it from the air.... :-)

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