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KFI
REPLACEMENT TOWER #2 8/14/2008 640 kHz Los Angeles, CA | |
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August
14, 2008 Erected in 13 days, the tower that took almost 4 years rebuild finally stands tall in La Mirada, CA. I arrived on 8/14 as the Seacomm crew was pulling out for the last time. It is a big, broad tower with a 50-foot capacitive hat for top loading and is lit on two levels with High Intensity Strobe Lighting. You can't miss it driving down the 5 freeway or across the 91 freeway near Beach Blvd. It is worth seeing the scale, the top hat and the raised northeast anchor, which is MUCH beefier than the original, as you see below. We're glad to see this old friend return and I attended the ceremony where it returned to being fed 50,000 watts of RF on August 12, 2008. The tower is 675' tall and the Top Hat is 50' across, flat side to flat side. Very sadly, KFI Chief Engineer John Paoli, who expertly shepherded this project through, passed away just weeks after it went on the air. I will always miss John's friendship, his wry sense of humor and his use of the word scamper. The tower has been named in his honor and has a plaque to that effect. | ||||
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KFI Chief Engineer John Paoli and Clear Channel Market Chief Terry Greiger at the New KFI tower 8/12/2008 |  |  | Bill Handel throwing the "Big Switch" | |
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KFI TOWER GOING UP ONE MORE TIME August
2, 2008 Crew and equipment are back in La Mirada stacking KFI steel once again. The photos were taken from the 5 freeway northbound Artesia exit, looking northwest. | ||||
New KFI
tower going up (right) and KFI Aux tower (left). 8/2/2008 | ||||
 Gin pole at work lifting another section. 8/2/2008 | ||||
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Questions?
E-mail Paul Sakrison at paul@sakrison.com | ||||
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(C)Copyright
2008 Paul H. Sakrison | ||||