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KANW and KAQW

Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts

The Albuquerque public schools have filed a modification request for translator K216GQ (91.1), which covers mostly Santa Fe, and which currently relays "KANW-2" (KANW-HD2), which primarily broadcasts NPR news and talk programs. APS has a CP for a new station, KAQW, on this channel, licensed to Española. The new request would move K216GQ to 90.3 and retain it as a KANW translator. Which KANW service would be relayed by the translator wasn't specified.

I had assumed that KAQW would continue rebroadcasting KANW-2 but with better coverage, but the new application calls that assumption into question. KANW covers Santa Fe and Los Alamos just fine from Sandia Crest. Aside from improving coverage in and north of Española, rebroadcasting KANW's main channel on KAQW wouldn't seem to accomplish that much. Putting KANW's main channel on the translator also wouldn't seem to accomplish much. I suppose there's the remote possibility of a new service on an HD-3 channel that the 90.3 translator would then relay for Santa Fe --but I don't think it's likely.

Hard to say. Lew Wallace, once the Territorial governor, was quoted as saying, "Everything proven by experience elsewhere fails in New Mexico" and the line-up in the Santa Fe market seems to back that up.
 
Mark Roberts said:
The Albuquerque public schools have filed a modification request for translator K216GQ (91.1), which covers mostly Santa Fe, and which currently relays "KANW-2" (KANW-HD2), which primarily broadcasts NPR news and talk programs. APS has a CP for a new station, KAQW, on this channel, licensed to Española. The new request would move K216GQ to 90.3 and retain it as a KANW translator. Which KANW service would be relayed by the translator wasn't specified.
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Translator K216GQ was previously K212AN at 90.3 but moved in 2018 when they claimed that there was interference from KANM on Mt. Taylor. Since this application seeks to run it at the full 250 watts while adding horizontal coverage from the same location wouldn't that just cause more interference problems between the two signals? Of course there are not many available frequencies in Santa Fe to move to.

KAQW might just simulcast the main programming from KANW for the areas around Espanola. KUNM also does that with KRAR 91.9. The permit for KAHW 89.5 Jarales appears to have expired in December. We'll see if they apply for another permit or if they gave up on it.
 
KEDP Las Vegas, also on 91.1 and owned by the Albuquerque Public Schools, has received a license to cover. The CP was modified earlier to employ a directional antenna, reducing its coverage to the west, i.e. in the direction of Española and Santa Fe and KAQW.
 
KAQW today filed something I've never seen before (probably due my own limited experience): an Equipment Test Operations notice. This appears intended to satisfy Commission preconditions before obtaining program test authority. The conditions are in an attachment to the notice: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/api/download/attachment/25076ff394e07de40195058b83411d5a

This notice states that all but one precondition has been satisfied, with that one last condition regarding limiting exposure to RF fields to be satisfied through measurements currently being taken. The license to cover for KEDP in Las Vegas was also a precondition; that was obtained this week. A Program Test Authority request will follow.

This filing indicates that KAQW is almost ready to begin operation.
 
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