If you find it useful, sure. My example was based on taking the lowest 1-A (former) clear channel's primary station and showing that even it had noisy areas inside its primary coverage zone.
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A Few Houston Radio Notes
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I figured I would post about my personal observations of some sketchy Houston translators for anyone who's interested in it. Any claims of being overpowered are just assumptions since I can not measure strength so don't argue about that.
Frequency and calls | Owner | Relaying and branding | Notes | Interferes with co-channel | ||||
| 91.5 K218EJ | CENTRO CRISTIANO DE VIDA ETERNA | Off the air | Been off the air but got transferred to KHCB | |||||
| 92.5 K223DH | CENTRO CRISTIANO DE VIDA ETERNA | Off the air | Was on briefly in mid February 2023 overpowered and was "La Mejor" that's heard on 102.5 | K223CW | ||||
| 92.5 K223CW | SDK FRANCO LLC | (None) IDs as KFNC-HD2 "ESPN 92.5 & 97.5" | Overpowered and originating programming whenever it does not match up with KFNC. Does not follow directional pattern. KFNC is not HD. | KCOL, KWUP, KJJG-LP, & KHGF-LP | ||||
| 94.1 K231CN | CENTRO CRISTIANO DE VIDA ETERNA | KCDF-LP (not always) "La Nueva" |
| K231DA, KQXY, KBIH-LP, & KLTR (underpowered) | ||||
| 99.5 K258DA & K258BZ | CENTRO CRISTIANO DE VIDA ETERNA | (None) "Radio Dabang" | Originating programming. K258DA is overpowered and not following directional pattern and is most likely in a different location. | KHEA-LP | ||||
| 101.7 K269GT | KING BROADCASTING CORPORATION | KHPT-HD3 "Conexión 101.7" | Seems to have a 2nd transmitter somewhere west of Houston. | |||||
| 102.5 K273DO | LESLIE BROADCASTING LLC | (None) "Radio Zindagi 102.5 FM" | Originating programming. Legal IDs as just the translator calls. | KMAZ-LP and other translators | ||||
| 102.5 K273AL | CENTRO CRISTIANO DE VIDA ETERNA | KJFI-LP & KJHJ-LP "La Mejor" | Most likely overpowered and not following their directional pattern like their other translators. Can't be repeating an LPFM far away over the air from the same frequency. KJHJ-LP is still on 102.5 even though they are now licensed to 94.9. | KMAZ-LP and other translators | ||||
| 104.5 K283CH | CENTRO CRISTIANO DE VIDA ETERNA | KJOZ-AM "La Grande" | Used to originate programming. Most likely overpowered. Congrats centro for having 1 Houston translator not originating programming anymore. | KKMY & KZCW-LP | ||||
| 105.3 K287BQ | SDK FRANCO LLC | (None) Legal IDs as KKBQ-HD3 and KTWL "Power 105.3" | Overpowered and originating programming. Does not follow directional pattern. Has not been on KKBQ HD3 since early 2022 and has never been on KTWL. | KTWL (like crazy) & KXXF |
What is going on with KFNC? Two of the afternoon hosts have quit and a third got canned. The station is rerunning show “highlights” from earlier in the day in the 3 to 6pm slot.
Getting the impression things are circling down the drain at 97.5. Would not shock me if news breaks that the station is being sold, especially with national religious broadcasters sniffing around for new acquisitions.
Getting the impression things are circling down the drain at 97.5. Would not shock me if news breaks that the station is being sold, especially with national religious broadcasters sniffing around for new acquisitions.
With the delisting of K223CW from the ratings, I’d think that the advertising budget would shrink. They’re going to have to either simulcast it 100%, or turn on the HD exciter at 97.5 (and pay Xperi)
They never had high enough ratings to get on ad buys based on numbers.
Be cautious with these types of accusations. They could get you into legal trouble unless you are able to show absolute proof of these statements.
While power levels and directionality on some “too good to be true” signals might be up for debate, the lack of originating stations for certain translators is irrefutable. Some operators here claim originating stations that simply don’t exist.
Also when I hear LPFMs running commercials, then that is something that can’t be denied, either.
I agree. Some of these fact are undebatable. Accusing someone of being over-power without documented proof is the issue.
The word "allegedly" clears up any libel/slander.
I did say they were assumptions so it is allegedly. Everything is my own personal observations.
They allegedly are overpowered but not as much as the other ones. They do have an originating station and are licensed to be nondirectional. Normal atmospheric conditions don’t make them come up to Conroe to interfere with KZCC-LP like 104.5 does with KZCW-LP
What harm could it do for someone to accuse a translator of running overpower if they really aren’t? If they’re compliant and an FCC inspector sees that, they’ll be fine. But if the FCC inspector sees that they’re running 2000 watts when they should be running 28, that’s a problem.
Ok. Tell me what the originating stations are for 92.5, 94.1, 99.5, 102.5, and 105.3 are...
No additional accusations of illegal operation without documented sources is going to be deleted.
If you ran a business and were falsely accused of running it illegally, would you be happy about it? Would your potential clients think twice about doing business with you? That's the harm it could do.
I would agree with those who say the claims that some of those translators are operating completely legally sound dubious at best, but people need to be careful with what they're throwing around. "It just looks that way" isn't good enough.
Shutting this thread down.
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