[Kzyxtalk] KNYO is temporarily off the air, but is still on the web at KNYO.org

[Marco McClean]

Bob Young will write soon with all the details, but the short story is:

KNYO's tower /was/ a 70-foot tree with the antenna at the top. This 
storm knocked that tower down. Options are: 1. Put up a man-made tower 
right where the old one was and avoid any FCC fuss about location and 
power and so on. That's almost as expensive as starting a whole radio 
station all over again, so probably not. 2. Wrestle the paperwork 
through the FCC meatgrinder --time-consuming-- and move the transmitter 
down into town with the antenna on the roof of the studio, the way most 
small-town low-power stations do it. Slightly less expensive, but there 
are landlords to deal with too. And 3. I don't know. There might be 
another organic tower near enough to the existing transmitter site, 
meaning a matter of yards this way or that, to just run a fresh cable up 
and put the antenna there. I don't think there is, though.

Until the antenna goes back up in the air, wherever that is, which might 
be a week and it might be months (see above), KNYO will only be on the 
web via KNYO.org. Tell your friends. I'll be doing my all-Friday-night 
Memo of the Air shows as usual, and I think the other airpeople involved 
will also be continuing. KNYO runs on about $12,000 a year. The expense 
of whatever solution is picked will add thousands to that. If you've 
been on the fence about helping real local radio with some money, now 
might be when to get off the fence and send the actual money. There's a 
donation heart at KNYO. Poke it and see what happens inside you, like 
when you go to the dog pound just to look, not expecting to commit, but 
of course you fall in love and come home with a puppy. Something like that.

Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com