NOAA Weather Radio KGG68 info needed Tomball

Rick2010

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I am looking for current information on KGG68 NWS radio in Tomball. Looking for actual location, antenna height, transmitter power, polarization, ERP. It's not in ULS that I can find.
Thanks in advance for your help.
 

nd5y

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No federal stations are in the ULS because they don't require FCC licensing.

The NTIA GMF FOIA document from 2021 has the following.
I don't know if it's still current.

16000 BROWN ROAD 77377
30 05 47 N 095 39 23 W
A tower owned by City of Houston is there. It looks to be the same location shown on the NWR coverage web site.

FX 16K00F3E K1.00000
Fixed station running 5 kHz deviation FM at 1 kW (1000 watts)
also has other emission designators for the SAME data and tones.

08GDIPOLEARRY00069H0105T ND 1
It's probably a standard 4 dipole array non-directional
I don't know how to decode the antenna height.
I don't know if 08G is part of the antenna or some other field.
I can't imagine it being anything but vertical polarization.

The data in the pdf is not formatted properly and hard to read.
 
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Echo4Thirty

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That is the old site on Brown Rd. They moved to another site a couple of years ago. Its still on the NW side of Houston, but I do not recall which actual tower.
 

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I am about 75% sure. I had a conversation with NOAA awhile back and they said something about it since HC wanted to vacate Brown Rd for a tower that had yet to be built. I will go back and see if i can find the info.

I have not driven the site to confirm.
 
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