Re: WBZ's new towers

[mamros@MIT.EDU]

>>        Does anyone know whether any Class A stations currently use a
>>Franklin antenna?
[...]
>KDKA and WHO, I believe. Also, KSTP uses one during the day but at night
>operates directionally, from conventional towers, using a different site a
>few miles from the day site.

KDKA used to run a Franklin antenna, but it was torn down just a few years
ago in favor of a more "conventional" design on the same site.  I remember
reading about it in Radio World not that long ago, in an article written
by KDKA's CE.  If I remember right, he wrote that the new antenna would
provide a better local signal than the Franklin did; that was at least
part of the reason why it was replaced.

- -Shawn Mamros (a Pittsburgh native)
E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu

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