KSON tower rebuild?

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N6ATF
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KSON tower rebuild?

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Heard on the radio that the snapped KSON tower might be getting rebuilt. Here's what happened to it in '04.

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RescueKujo
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Re: KSON tower rebuild?

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From SDRadio.net
KSON-AM 1240 tower is being rebuilt. The location, near 32nd Street in San Diego, is to replace a damaged self-supporting tower that received significant damage several years ago.

The new tower is on the left to replace the damaged tower, on the right.

Douglas Pierce sent a recent snap shot of the tower. The AM antenna held the “K S O N” call letters on the structure and was a San Diego land mark — for airplane pilots and those on the freeway.

The self-supporting antenna is also the broadcast home for 1040 KURS-AM and a low-powered TV station.
http://sdradio.net/2008/12/01/kson-am-1240-tower/
dbelleperc
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Re: KSON tower rebuild?

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Its all the way up now. Still a little work to be done. I wonder if they are going to paint it for Aircraft?
SDnative
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Re: KSON tower rebuild?

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If the FAA has anything to say about it, and they do, then it will have to be painted and lit. I worked on a project in Kearny Mesa (the Caltrans/CHP ECC) and when they installed their tower, it was not tall enough to require a light, but when the FAA inspected it and saw that it came with a top light, they were required to make it light up.
dbelleperc
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Re: KSON tower rebuild?

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The tower does have lights on it. They were not on in the daylight (before the collapse) so I guess they still have some work to do.
PStuart
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Re: KSON tower rebuild?

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As of December 18, theres one red flashing light at the top of the tower
Brian
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Re: KSON tower rebuild?

Post by Brian »

Saw this on CGC.
Four years to rebuild 3 AM/FM tower structures In California.
Note: New callsign is KNSN.
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An interesting factoid:

The collapsed KFI & KSON & KXO towers each took about four years to replace.

Date of collapse of the KFI tower: December 19, 2004
Date of first RF into the replacement tower: September 25, 2008

Date of collapse of the KSON tower: December 29, 2004
Date of first RF into the replacement tower: January 8, 2009

KXO AM and FM tower went down October 16, 2004.
the new tower operating on July 22, 2008 for KXO-FM and KXO AM [went] on the air October 8, 2008.

Photo: KSON new tower - (gin pole still on top)
http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Images/ ... AWN_sm.jpg
http://www.sbe36.org/index.php?option=c ... iew&id=279
Old Tower
http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/KSON.htm

Source:
http://www.bext.com/_CGC/2009/cgc876.htm
http://www.bext.com/_CGC/2009/cgc877.htm
http://www.bext.com/_CGC/2008/cgc872.htm
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