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105.9 in San Antonio

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I just found this station the other day, it's broadcasting Spanish Religious programming with English on Sundays. The audio on it was real quiet the other day.. and today I checked it again, and the audio is real horrible. Someone's got the volume turned up way too loud and it clips a whole lot.

Anyone know how long this station's been up?
 
It's a translator (K290BO) being fed illegally via studios in San Antonio instead of the main station KTNR in Kenedy, TX (which is too far away to be received over the air). KTNR is acting as a translator for them rather then a main studio station. It's operating at a couple hundred watts right now and being fed with an internet audio feed.

The station is called Radio Ola. They are also on another translator in Hollywood Park (K229BJ) on 93.7

Before making their way to 105.9 (no idea how the FCC let them move to that frequency) they used to be on 92.3 (K222BS) and before that they were on 92.1 (K221EX).


www.radiolafm.com
 
On the website they show 92.1, which is KTNR's freqwuency, along with 93.7 and 105.9. The 101.7 they list is K269FD, a translator on 101.7 in Luling. Although not shown on the site they also have translators K271AQ 102.1 in Cuero and K294BI 106.7 in Schulenburg.
 
Actually the translator declares to the FCC in its application that their coverage "CONTOUR WILL EXTEND OUTSIDE THE CONTOUR OF THE PRIMARY STATION. THIS IS NOT A FILL-IN TRANSLATOR"

Couldn't they pick up the off-air signal of KTNR where practical and deliver it to the translator by some other means? Technically, the translator would be fed the off-air signal.
 
jd said:
On the website they show 92.1, which is KTNR's freqwuency, along with 93.7 and 105.9. The 101.7 they list is K269FD, a translator on 101.7 in Luling. Although not shown on the site they also have translators K271AQ 102.1 in Cuero and K294BI 106.7 in Schulenburg.
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The one in Luling has been dead for a good while now. Hopefully it'd stay that way since it really was interfering with KROX.
 
fredcantu said:
Actually the translator declares to the FCC in its application that their coverage "CONTOUR WILL EXTEND OUTSIDE THE CONTOUR OF THE PRIMARY STATION. THIS IS NOT A FILL-IN TRANSLATOR"

Couldn't they pick up the off-air signal of KTNR where practical and deliver it to the translator by some other means? Technically, the translator would be fed the off-air signal.
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No KTNR is too far away from San Antonio to be received by the translators effectively. It's about 72 miles away and KTNR is only 6kw at 171 ft. When they first signed on the translators in San Antonio, KTNR was off the air. Their transmitter died and they couldn't get anyone out there to fix it. It had already been off the air for about 6 months before they purchased the package (KTNR and 3 translators at the time). They built studios in San Antonio and fed the translators from those studios. KTNR remained off the air for another 9 months until they finally went up there and stuck a little low power transmitter to get it back on the air to at least cover Kenedy. They fed the audio for KTNR via internet. The programming originated from the studios they had already built for the translators (which had been acting as stand alone stations with no primary FM) there in San Antonio. The audio for KTNR is horrible! Very over driven and distorted and it drops out and buffers constantly. There is no main studio in Kenedy. Like I previously mentioned...they are treating KTNR as a translator instead of the main station and the translators in SA are treated as mains. Weird...confusing...and highly illegal. But yet even after 2 years they haven't been caught or fined. Last I heard they were trying to LMA the stations or even dump them all together. I don't see it happening anytime soon. They want an arm and a leg for translators that don't even have a service or city grade signal in SA. I'm talking a million dollars for just the two translators.
 
Many full power stations get around the main studio rule by having little more than a mixer, a mike and a CD player-- enough to get on the air-- in their community of license declared their main studio although only a weekly public service block originates from that location. I believe the owners of stations that are LMAed have to have their own studios somewhere, and it's usually a bare bones setup, too.
 
Infamous said:
No KTNR is too far away from San Antonio to be received by the translators effectively. It's about 72 miles away and KTNR is only 6kw at 171 ft. When they first signed on the translators in San Antonio, KTNR was off the air. Their transmitter died and they couldn't get anyone out there to fix it. It had already been off the air for about 6 months before they purchased the package (KTNR and 3 translators at the time). They built studios in San Antonio and fed the translators from those studios. KTNR remained off the air for another 9 months until they finally went up there and stuck a little low power transmitter to get it back on the air to at least cover Kenedy. They fed the audio for KTNR via internet. The programming originated from the studios they had already built for the translators (which had been acting as stand alone stations with no primary FM) there in San Antonio. The audio for KTNR is horrible! Very over driven and distorted and it drops out and buffers constantly. There is no main studio in Kenedy. Like I previously mentioned...they are treating KTNR as a translator instead of the main station and the translators in SA are treated as mains. Weird...confusing...and highly illegal. But yet even after 2 years they haven't been caught or fined. Last I heard they were trying to LMA the stations or even dump them all together. I don't see it happening anytime soon. They want an arm and a leg for translators that don't even have a service or city grade signal in SA. I'm talking a million dollars for just the two translators.
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105.9 sounds normal now. I did hear they were saying "93.7 and 105.9." They don't even mention 92.1 except every hour during their IDs.
 
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