The FCC in mid-February 2022 approved Audacity sports talk station KWFN 97.3 FM’s Minor Modification application to relocate from the KOGO tower to the KGB-FM tower one mile to the northwest. KWFN plans to share an 8-bay ERI “rototiller” antenna with KGB-FM 101.5 and radiate 38 kW horizontal and vertical polarity atop the KLSD (AM) tower.
On February 24, 2022, the FCC granted the KOGO (AM) application to move to the KGB-AM 760 kHz site at the west end of Santee. KOGO will be allowed to output 9 kW directional daytime and 10 kW directional nighttime. To keep the same radiation, the old power of 5 kW needed to be raised due to the much shorter antennas.
After the move, the KOGO towers on Vertical Bridge property will reportedly come down and the property developed for homes.
On February 11, 2022, the FCC dismissed the recent Non-commercial Educational (NCE) application for a station serving San Diego from the KGB-FM site. The group had chosen 90.3 MHz, apparently without research into its occupation by co-channel Tijuana station XHITZ and alternate channel XHTIM 90.7.
Several more of these Mexico-blind NCE applications are pending and will have to be dismissed.
The FCC in early February 2022 denied an Informal Objection by Mike Halloran to KSDS 88.3 San Diego’s license renewal, granting that renewal the same day. A rebuttal to the objection had been filed by KSDS in December 2021.
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About the Presenter Stephen Lockwood is a senior engineer and president of Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers, with more than 40 years of experience in the field of broadcasting and telecommunications engineering. He is a Registered Professional Electrical (P.E.) Engineer in Washington, Alaska, and Wyoming and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Engineering Physics from Oklahoma Christian University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Broadcast Technology Society elected AdCom Member, Member and past president of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE) and is a Member of Project Management Institute where is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP). He is a Member of SBE where he holds the certification of Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer (CPBE) and AM Directional Specialist (AMD) and holds Amateur Radio Operator License K7SSL.
The Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association (SCTCA) filed an Informal Objection with the FCC against the non-commercial application filed by the Center for Economic Justice (CEJ) for 89.9 MHz at Warner Springs, north of Romona. In the filing, SCTCA claims that CEJ…
is not a valid non-commercial entity under California state law
misidentifies the transmitter site
is not an established local applicant
technical representatives are linked to a prior canceled NCE license (DKUMI) for Ramona, the permittee of which had an unresolved character issue
and the application has a “myriad of errors.”
SCTCA had filed its own application for the same NCE channel, so is considered to be a mutually exclusive applicant for 89.9 MHz covering the region of San Diego County near Warner Springs. At this stage, typically the competing applicant, CEJ, would respond to the objection to help the FCC decide on the merits of the two applicants toward awarding a construction permit for the new FM station.
