 This fostered a new understanding of RF behavior, having been so successful the Federal Radio Commission in Atlanta reportedly phoned, demanding to know why the station was off the air.As late as the 1990s, the original tower bases remained in their field, the station having moved to straddling the west end of the Gandy Causeway with towers on concrete pilings in the Tampa Bay salt water in the early 1950s at 5 kW.A radio war with Cuba granted it an STA to operate at 10 kW from the 1990s on to overcome deliberate retaliatory interference.