[ARC5] radio and the Spanish Flu epidermic

[Richard Knoppow]

    KNX was one of two 50KW clear channel stations in LA, the 
other being KFI. The original KNX transmitter was in Sherman 
Oaks, near what is now the Sepulveda flood control basin. In 
1938, when L.A. had terrible floods the transmitter was nearly 
flooded out. The engineers had to use rowboats to get to it. So 
CBS decided to move and went to Torrance. Torrance was probably a 
better location anyway. CBS had bought KNX only a couple of years 
before the flood.
    Speaking of blanketing I live perhaps a mile and a half from 
a site in Echo Park now used by three radio stations. This site 
was built in the  1960s for KBLA which became KDAY, a 50KW 
daytime only station with six towers pointed mostly at south 
central. It is now full time but with reduced power at night. 
Call letters are back to KBLA.  Currently two other stations use 
the same towers (KHJ and KYPA formerly KGFJ). You can about light 
a cigarette by holding it in the air. Someone got a payoff for 
the original approval I am sure.
    Many stations now are multiplexed onto the towers of another 
station because the transmitting sites are now worth more than 
the whole station. Locally, KABC is now diplexed onto the towers 
of KWKW (formerly KFAC).
On 3/14/2020 7:07 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
> I used to live in Torrance a few miles from KNX.  If you could 
> not pick them up on something you just built, be it an IF for a 
> UHF set or a lamp dimmer, you had done something wrong.
> Wayne
> 'WB5WSV
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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL