MO1213 Radio Station KFBC Mast -- Laramie Co. WY - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

Blasterz have no idea why anyone would be willing to give up the KFBC call, since it was tied so closely to Frontier Broadcasting Company, a broadcasting pioneer in WY. But for whatever reason, this TV station has had three call signs as follows:

KFBC-TV (1954-72)
KYCU-TV (1972-1996)
KGWN-TV (1996-2009) and KGWN-DT (2009-Present)

This broadcast tower it also hosted the transmitter for KFBC-AM, the an early radio station in Wyoming. KFBC-AM has now been sold away from the TV station, and its transmitter has moved elsewhere.

From the NGS Datasheet:

"MO1213 DESIGNATION - RADIO STATION KFBC MAST
MO1213 PID - MO1213
MO1213 STATE/COUNTY- WY/LARAMIE
MO1213 USGS QUAD - EMKAY (1978)
MO1213
MO1213 *CURRENT SURVEY CONTROL
MO1213 ___________________________________________________________________
MO1213* NAD 83(1993)- 41 06 00.34887(N) 105 00 25.06382(W) ADJUSTED
MO1213* NAVD 88 -
MO1213 ___________________________________________________________________
MO1213 LAPLACE CORR- -14.70 (seconds) DEFLEC99
MO1213 GEOID HEIGHT- -15.06 (meters) GEOID99
MO1213
MO1213 HORZ ORDER - THIRD
MO1213
MO1213.The horizontal coordinates were established by classical geodetic methods
MO1213.and adjusted by the National Geodetic Survey in January 1997.
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MO1213
MO1213.The Laplace correction was computed from DEFLEC99 derived deflections.
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MO1213.The geoid height was determined by GEOID99.
MO1213
MO1213; North East Units Scale Converg.
MO1213;SPC CO N - 1,644,007.23 3,135,897.24 sFT 1.00006678 +0 19 06.8
MO1213;SPC WY E - 66,648.916 213,415.583 MT 0.99993971 +0 06 18.0
MO1213;SPC CO N - 501,094.405 955,823.391 MT 1.00006678 +0 19 06.8
MO1213;UTM 13 - 4,549,868.888 499,415.357 MT 0.99960000 -0 00 16.5
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MO1213 SUPERSEDED SURVEY CONTROL
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MO1213 NAD 83(1993)- 41 06 00.33350(N) 105 00 25.06053(W) AD( ) 4
MO1213 NAD 83(1986)- 41 06 00.33214(N) 105 00 25.05588(W) AD( ) 4
MO1213 NAD 27 - 41 06 00.39100(N) 105 00 23.17200(W) AD( ) 3
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MO1213.Superseded values are not recommended for survey control.
MO1213.NGS no longer adjusts projects to the NAD 27 or NGVD 29 datums.
MO1213.See file dsdata.txt to determine how the superseded data were derived.
MO1213
MO1213_MARKER: 42 = RADIO/TV MAST
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MO1213 HISTORY - Date Condition Recov. By
MO1213 HISTORY - 1959 FIRST OBSERVED CGS
MO1213 HISTORY - 1973 SEE DESCRIPTION NGS
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MO1213 STATION DESCRIPTION
MO1213
MO1213''DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1959 (MJR)
MO1213''THE STATION IS LOCATED, AIRLINE, ABOUT 8-1/2 MILES WEST OF
MO1213''CHEYENNE, AND ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 30, NEAR
MO1213''THE HIGHEST PART OF A LOW HILL.
MO1213''
MO1213''THE STATION IS A TRIANGULAR SHAPED MAST, PAINTED ALTERNATELY
MO1213''RED AND WHITE. IT IS 485 FEET HIGH AND THE POINT OF INTERSECTION
MO1213''WAS THE TOP AND CENTER OF THE MAST.
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MO1213 STATION RECOVERY (1973)
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MO1213''RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1973 (JRS)
MO1213''THE RADIO STATION KFBC, MAST 1959, WAS VISITED AND RECOVERED
MO1213''AS DESCRIBED IN 1959 WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT IT IS NOW THE
MO1213''PROPERTY OF KYCU TELEVISION, CHANNEL 5."

Condition: Mark found in good condition Designation: -blank- Benchmark Agency: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Monumentation type: Radio/TV Mast County: Albany County WY USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Laramie Find type: Coordinates and/or to-reach information from the NGS database (or Geocaching's copy of it) were used Web address of this benchmark's datasheet (optional): [Web Link] NGS PID: MO1213 Benchmark Agency (if other): Not listed Monumentation type (if other): Not listed Special category (optional): Not listed Special Category (if other): Not listed Local database's URL (optional): Not listed

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