[Boatanchors] Ranger question

[Gary Peterson]

Mac,

The call letters were, and still are, KIMM, 5 kW on 1150 kHz.  It had been a daytimer, since the early ‘60s.  The second owner wanted decent nighttime power, so I built a new 2 tower directional array, at a new site, which allowed 540 W to the phasor’s common point.  The nighttime ERP into Rapid City was as if the station were non-directional and running about 1200 W.

I got the new building built, the new towers erected and the ground systems planted before serious winter hit.  I wasn’t able to begin the field measurements for the full directional proof, until late spring, so the new site was my 160 meter hamshack for the remainder of that winter (1989-90).

About two decades later, the landowner (who wasn’t the licensee) decided to sell the antenna site to a developer and the station had to move to its third transmitter site.  It’s been a  non-directional, with very low nighttime power, ever since.  They would have little or no night audience if it weren’t for the FM translator.  I have always warned station licensees to be sure to own their transmitter sites!  This one didn’t listen.

Gary
KzeroCX

What were the call letters of that BC station's antenna you were using around 1100-1150 kc, Gary?

73 de Mac, K2GKK/5