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KTAO’s transmitter was in the town of Taos prior to 1991. Following FCC approval to increase to 1,200 watts, a new transmitter site was needed. A new transmitter was located at 10,800-foot
Picuris Peak, which does not have grid power. According to former owner Brad Hockmeyer, solar power was the only
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KTAO-FM was a free-form radio station in Los Gatos, California, that existed from March, 1969, through June, 1974. Operating at 95.3 FM, it was run essentially as a "benevolent dictatorship" by
Lorenzo W. Milam (1933–2020), a founder of KRAB in Seattle and KDNA in St. Louis, who had purchased radio
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, and north into southern Colorado. This broadcast area is the largest of any solar-powered station in the world. On June 8, 2010, Brad Hockmeyer sold KTAO and the Solar Center to Aidan Bain, gaining controlling interest of KTAOS Solar
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Lorenzo Milam is more than a verbal/dramatic, concerned observer; he's a participant. Milam is co-owner of KDNA, the listener-supported St. Louis station that was busted. He was a founder and director of KRAB, the
Seattle FM station now going through FCC hearings to determine its status as a
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The concept of listener-supported, noncommercial radio was still fairly new when it arrived in Los Gatos in about 1968. Operating at 95.3 FM, station KTAO was under the management of
Lorenzo W. Milam, one of the pioneers of what was called 'free-form'
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Francisco, by Metromedia's 50,000-watt KSAN), he is in touch with the KMPX Collective.
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452:References
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