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KHBE 102.1 and K231CL 94.1

I believe this would be the new owner of the station. They may have it on the air. If you haven't been to Big Wells, it is tiny. There are likely not more than 5 businesses (I recall a convenience store,two little cafes and a beauty salon) outside the oil business and that has been less intense in the region once oil prices dropped. Even with oil, there are not enough people or economic activity to support a station. The translator is a huge distance away...maybe 250 miles. Carrizo and Crystal City will get you about 12,000 in your service area. There are at least 3 other local stations (one Spanish Christian, a Spanish FM in Crystal City and a English mornings, Spanish afternoons station in Carrizo Springs).There's KHIA, a Christian Country LPFM in Brundage that ran thanks to the board doling out the operation costs. I remember seeing this station being won during the FCC auction. I remembered thinking does the winning bidder have any clue of the area. Radio already has just barely enough to get by on without another to split the share further and this really isn't a wealthy spot where lots of folks have money. If I recall they were trying to increase power and move up around Batesville. At least they'd that enough people and economic activity to make it if that gets the okay.
 
I don’t see how that can be a translator for the station list. It’s not even close.

More illegal activity.
 
No doubt it is illegal; even with no nearby interference, it would be nearly impossible for the translator to receive a class A station like KHBE at that distance. In this case, there is KBUC, a local (Raymondville) facility at 102.1, which would block any attempt to receive the 102.1 signal off the air from Big Wells. There are a substantial number of illegal translator operations around the nation which fail to repeat their station of origination by off-the-air reception. Direct off-air reception is required for translators that broadcast in the commercial band. I'm sure that some illegals get cited and fined, but it seems rare.
 
The FCC doesn't seem to check maps. There's one translator I know of claiming to carry a station well over 200 miles away. They claim to carry it off air yet there is a station on the same frequency as the translated station not more than about 30 miles from the translator. Then again, that broadcaster, I know personally, does not follow the rules. Don't ask me who. I won't say on a public board like this. I can say I know nothing about this broadcaster in Big Wells.
 
DJ the DJ said:
No doubt it is illegal; even with no nearby interference, it would be nearly impossible for the translator to receive a class A station like KHBE at that distance. In this case, there is KBUC, a local (Raymondville) facility at 102.1, which would block any attempt to receive the 102.1 signal off the air from Big Wells. There are a substantial number of illegal translator operations around the nation which fail to repeat their station of origination by off-the-air reception. Direct off-air reception is required for translators that broadcast in the commercial band. I'm sure that some illegals get cited and fined, but it seems rare.
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LOL with all the stuff going on at the border the Government probably doesn't fine radiostation operators, illegal or not. It's funny but I can bet you anything these probably crossed the border illegally.
 
AnyHuman said:
LOL with all the stuff going on at the border the Government probably doesn't fine radiostation operators, illegal or not. It's funny but I can bet you anything these probably crossed the border illegally.
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The FCC has a pirate task force and they have raised the fines on illegal operations. They have also started to work with law enforcement agencies to make joint raids on pirates, and there is new legislation that may increase dramatically the fines and sanctions on pirates and landlords allowing pirate activities to take place on their properties.

A record number of raids have been conducted in the last year with quite a number of repeat offenders silenced, too.

The FCC has nothing to do with "stuff going on at the border" as the FCC is a regulatory agency, not a law enforcement one.
 
I doubt that's the same person, since Gonzales on the old Radio Ola's application's spelled with an S while Vocem's Gonzalez is spelled with a Z.
 
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