Listeners to the Hal Turner Radio Show are aware that Global High-Frequency radio station WRMI (Radio Miami International) suffered significant damage from Hurricane Ian.
The station lost electrical power about one hour into the Hal Turner Radio Show on Wednesday night, after the hurricane made landfall, and began traveling inland through central Florida with extremely high winds.
Electricity was restored to the station around 3:30 PM Friday afternoon, but wind damage to the vast (1 square mile) property and its Antenna field, was significant.
The station has fourteen (14) transmitters - most of them 100,000 watts each, and twenty-three (23) antennas aimed to different parts of the world. That amount of antennas requires a LOT of land, so the station is on one square mile of property!
Telephone poles holding up the transmission wires, which carry the radio signal from the transmitters to the antennas, went down. Several of the vast antenna arrays suffered damage or collapsed in the 100+ MPH winds.
The antenna for the transmitter that carries the Hal Turner Radio Show IS INTACT, but it's transmission wire from the transmitter, is down with one of the downed poles.
As of Saturday morning, WRMI advised me that they have secured thirty (30) new telephone poles. They began installing those poles today, and will begin re-mounting the transmission wires today as well. Their GOAL is to have my show, on frequency 5.950, back on the air quickly . . . possibly by Monday, but we'll see.
The station took a significant amount of damage. They are working their hardest to repair the damage and get back on the air.
KYAH 540-Am in Utah
I was advised around 7:00 PM Friday night that KYAH is going off the air as of this Sunday night, and the station is being put up for sale. I do not know why.
This will adversely affect people in a couple ways. Aside from no longer broadcasting in Utah, KYAH was the method through which this show had "Listen-By-Phone" capabilities. The station has regularly told me that upwards of two thousand people a night called-in to their Listen-By-Phone system to hear the show. That system will no longer be available, effective immediately. I have removed the links from the menu area above reflecting this loss of service.
The KYAH Internet feed will also be gone, effective immediately. But that will not be such a big deal since folks with cellphones or Internet connections can tune-in to the show using the links in my web site menu bar above (LISTEN ONLINE) to still hear the show.
With the loss of KYAH, there is now some small Budget money available for another Brokered Air Time AM station. If you know of a station that needs programming, please either let me know, or let them know that my show is now available to them.
Thanks,
Hal
UPDATE 7:04 PM EDT --
