KOGO On the Air from the KGB-AM Site

KOGO (AM) 600 kHz started broadcasting full-time from their new site at the west end of Santee beginning October 28, 2024. iHeart filed with the FCC a License to Cover the Construction Permit for that move from Emerald Hills. At the new site, KOGO will operate with a transmitter output of 9,000 watts daytime, 10,000 watts nighttime, both directional to the southwest with a slightly different pattern than they had at the old site. The extra power from their previous 5 kW output is needed to compensate for the inefficiency of the short antenna (69°) designed for KFMB (now KGB-AM)  at 760 kHz, and the losses due to multiple matching and filter devices used to multiplex with KGB-AM. 

When KLNV 106.5 and KWFN 97.3 are finished moving to the KGB-FM tower, owner Vertical Bridge will be free to convert the old Emerald Hills site property to a residential development. 

KOGO had been at the Emerald Hills site since 1948, when its callsign was KFSD. 

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