Station For Sale

[davideduardo]

Someone earlier mentioned getting a translator to pair with the AM. That would be the only hope for this facility but the 2 millivolt contour for a 2500 watt station is not very large - the translator would provide coverage similar to a LPFM - 5-6 miles, at best. But that would cover much of Decatur so you could super-serve that suburban city with [insert viable format here]

There are many translators that have the full 250 watts at over 1000 feet. Coverage good out 15 to 16 miles. Of course, it must meet the spacing and channel issues of any facility, which is hard in a crowded metro.

 

[HGR1290]

There are several translators that could come available in the Atlanta area---unfortunately Lew Dickey and his singing cowboys bought up the "good" ones early on. At least one recent translator has been forced off the air due to interference(99.3) the 101.1 seems to have a lot of paperwork filed against it before it even completes its intended move into Atlanta, so those running 250 at any appreciable height may have some issues to contend with.

 

[jabba17]

There are several translators that could come available in the Atlanta area---unfortunately Lew Dickey and his singing cowboys bought up the "good" ones early on. At least one recent translator has been forced off the air due to interference(99.3) the 101.1 seems to have a lot of paperwork filed against it before it even completes its intended move into Atlanta, so those running 250 at any appreciable height may have some issues to contend with.

WCON on 99.3 went from 19kW/C2 to 100kW/C1. Even so, the good coverage in most of Gwinnett before the upgrade pretty much nipped any 99.3 translators in the bud.

Someone is going to buy this signal. It would make a good companion to 104.1 or 105.3.

I wonder if someone could get creative--move it to 99.1 and inch it as close to ATL as you can without interfering with cochannel WDEN in Macon. I'm assuming that would be easier than having to deal with 99.7 as a second-adjacent. Heck, if iHeartClearChannel bought it as a companion to 105.3, they could downgrade their Macon station.

 

[wavo]

There are many translators that have the full 250 watts at over 1000 feet. Coverage good out 15 to 16 miles. Of course, it must meet the spacing and channel issues of any facility, which is hard in a crowded metro.

To operate at 250W/1000Feet you would have to have a parent HD signal. For a parent AM station, the translator must stay within the 2 millivolt contour (commercial stations) I think to translate a HD signal it must be within the 60 dbu contour of the parent signal.

 

[secondchoice]

To operate at 250W/1000Feet you would have to have a parent HD signal. For a parent AM station, the translator must stay within the 2 millivolt contour (commercial stations) I think to translate a HD signal it must be within the 60 dbu contour of the parent signal.

There is some talk that the translators will be allowed 20 or 25 miles of the city of license reguardless of the 2 MV signal. If so then some class D’s might have a better translator signal than the AM parent. (4th paragraph)

http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/201...ws-for-am-stations-to-acquire-fm-translators/

IMHO they need to do the policy change now.