Technical Profile: WKUA

FM Technical Profile: WKUA

Station Name:: Revocation Radio
to be: American Family Radio
Frequency:: 88.5
Format:: Christian Rock/Christian Hip-Hop
to be: Religious Talk
Transmitter Location:: [map] [bird's eye] [street view] On CR-79 (Sylvan Loop Road) behind the Victorious Life Church.
Power (ERP):: 5.5 kW V; 1 watt H
Antenna:: Directional
Antenna HAAT:: 272 feet
Other Information:: 60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.
More Information:: [FCC]; [FCCdata.org]; [Radio-Locator]; [Wikipedia]

[Facebook] For Revocation Radio network
[Facebook] For AFR Talk; // WRYD Jemison
Owner:: American Family Radio
History:: This station dates back to an original construction permit issued in February 2009 issued to TBTA Ministries (Take Back The Airwaves) for a new noncommercial station on 88.5 MHz licensed to Moundville. The original grant was for a site off Paige Boulevard and AL-69 in Moundville with 6 kW vertical and 1 watt (!) horizontal from a 141 foot antenna HAAT (Height Above Average Terrain), directional. In June 2009 the station modified the permit for 7 kW vertical and 1 watt (!) horizontal at 240 feet HAAT from the currently-licensed site between County Road 79 and I-20/59 north of Moundville, behind Victory Church. This specified adifferent directional antenna.

The station applied for another change in August 2011, lowering power to 5.5 kW vertical (and still 1 watt vertical) with yet another directional antenna pattern. The antenna height was raised to 272 feet HAAT. After a series of adjustments to satisfy the FCC the permit was granted in October 2011.

A Program Test Authority was filed in February 2012 and programming commenced with Take Back The Airwaves' “Revocation Radio” Christian Rock and Hip-Hop format. A license to cover was filed in May 2012.

In late September 2024 it was announced that TBTA was selling this station and WRYD in Jemison to American Family Radio for $750,000. They had previously sold their original station WKRE in Argo to Elijah Radio the month prior.