http://www.kpam.com/includes/news_items/news_items_more.php?section_id=11&id=218

Herb

This is a little old, but I hope they get it. I live at the edge of civilization, and I like two things about KPAM...Tom Parker's overnight show, and Mike Parker's Beavers PBP. Can't pick up either. Listening to KXLY for the Beavers game tonight, while hiking in the sticks.

Nothing but their current 50 kW day/5 kW night comes up on the FCC's search.

I read that they're planning on boosting their night time to around 5,000 or 10,000 watts. Station Manager Paul Clitheroe was quoted as saying that the engineers had a fair amount of confidence that they could meet the requirements to get it through.

This would be terrific, as they really start to fade around sundown.

Herb

>This would be terrific, as they really start to fade around sundown.


They begin to fade when Sean Hannity comes on at Noon.

LOL!!!!!!

620 faded outcompletly here after elvis was disconnected!

Bull! 620 has generally been the second ranked AM behind KEX the past three plus years.
The challenge has been sales. Now...
back to your KPAM post.

I don't care if they up the power to 500,000 watts. The programming is not relevant to what many listeners don't already have access to someplace else...with a signal that you can actually pick up! Question: What Portland AM is listed for sale for $6 million?

>>They begin to fade when Sean Hannity comes on at Noon.<<

Uh - the political board is on the other side of the room. This is the radio board.

Even so, it was hilarious!

Pamplin wanted to boost KVAN (now KKAD) to
50-thousand but received bitter, angry complaints form homeowners near the tower who picked up KVAN in shower heads, toasters, stereo systems on and on. Those complaints came when the power was being boosted to only about
25-thou if memory is correct. Pamplin bought a filtering device for area homeowners after the Vancouver Columbian wrote an article about the upset homeowners. Not sure they ever increased KVAN's power beyond what it was before the tests.

KPAM is still on the air????

Mrs_merkin>>>Even so, it was hilarious!

Thanks Merk, I don't post here that often, but I couldn't pass that one up.

KPAM is a strange station, why would they have local talent like Tom Parker on in the middle of the night when most people are sleeping? It makes no sense to me.

I wonder if he regrets leaving K103 after not getting the morning drive.

"Uh - the political board is on the other side of the room. This is the radio board."

And I thought EVERYBODY knew you can only make mean spirited remarks toward conservatives on this side of the board...

Well, OK, if you insist.

KKAD is 50kw.

The filter devices worked, I'd guess. They weren't 50K when the staff got blown out in July '01. Those neighbors were sure angry earlier that year.

Tom Parker is a talent that is certainly being wasted at KPAM. I get to hear him from time to time while I'm on the road at night. He's the best thing on the dial at that time of night.

Is KPAM the Portland AM station that's for sale for 6 million?

This is what I found on the net:

50,000 watt heritage AM station in Oregon. Growing market.
Inquiries will have to agree to confidentiality agreement.
Call Roger Rafson at (412) 421-2600 or rafson@cmsradio.com

http://www.cmsstationbrokerage.com/stations_for_sale.html?gclid=CNedm_PV6I8CFQv1 YAodmwwuiw

A Blast from the Past:
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RADIO STATION WILL TEST INCREASED POWER LEVELS
Columbian, The (Vancouver, WA)
March 23, 2002
Author: SCOTT HEWITT, Columbian staff writer
Estimated printed pages: 3

Radio station KVAN will test increased broadcast power levels next week, and people who notice new or aggravated interference problems are invited to call the station.

But calling doesn't necessarily mean anything will get fixed. The station has one interference-fighting engineer going door-to-door in east Vancouver, near the station's four broadcast towers; even if there's a flood of calls he will likely get to just a handful before the testing is over.

The rest of any complaints related to the raised power level will be addressed after power goes up for good, according to KVAN general manager Mark Ail.

That long-sought power boost now seems unlikely to happen until late this year.

KVAN, 1550 AM, got an initial green light from the Federal Communications Commission to boost its broadcast power from 10,000 to 50,000 watts years ago. Getting all the engineering done and tested has been a painstakingly slow process.

That testing will widen the swath of land potentially affected by interference from the four radio towers at Northeast 34th Street and 155th Avenue, Ail said.

"Our expectation is that ... new people will experience interference," he said.

Ail said he doesn't know whether the problem will intensify for those already experiencing it, or return to those who've had it fixed.

Here's what Ail said will happen next week: During daytime business hours on two or three days -- which days still aren't certain and could be affected by variables like weather -- KVAN will power its towers up to 50,000 watts.

"We'll raise power up and take some readings and bring it back down," said Ail. That will be followed, in two or three weeks, by further technical adjustments and eventually more testing.

There could be several rounds of testing before consulting engineers sign off on the project, Ail said. After that, it could be anywhere between 45 and 120 more days before the FCC gives its final approval to the power boost.

Neighbors in east Vancouver are worried that the power boost will aggravate a host of radio-interference problems they already experience -- mostly with KVAN.

For years neighbors have complained about radio sound and static on phone and TV reception, computers that can't get or stay online, and even toasters, microwave ovens and garage door openers that kick on and off by themselves.

Because interference problems often originate with inexpensive equipment and appliances that aren't well shielded against radio signals, the FCC doesn't require broadcasters to fix interference problems. KVAN has been taking complaints and working its way down the list of complainants for years.

On Friday, Ail said that KVAN has received 469 complaints to date and continues to work on 18 of them. All the others, he said, have been resolved to the complainant's satisfaction.

Affected neighbors contacted Friday had varying opinions. Jim Hamilton, president of the Parkside Neighborhood Association, said his interference problems were solved when he bought a better telephone and that he hasn't heard any new complaints lately.

But Gus Potter, a vice chair of the Parkway East Neighborhood Association, said she doesn't believe neighbors are "all that satisfied or happy" with the interference situation in the area. Residents have noticed that interference decreases in rainy, wet weather and increases when it's dry, she said, so any slowing of complaints is temporary only.

Potter said radio sound used to come from her TV and her burglar alarm, but KVAN's traveling engineer solved the problem.

Section: Clark County/region
Page: c3

Copyright (c) 2002 The Columbian Publishing Co., P.O. Box 180, Vancouver, WA 98666.
Record Number: 2002082054