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107.7 ??

Mrtejano

Mrtejano

Is Latino broadcasting Corporation at it again? I am hearing Tejano music on 107.7 FM sounds like the same playlist they had on 107.1 FM in Rosenberg . No commercials no announcements no nothing but music.
 
Now they're mixing up with Cumbias gruperas, Joan Sebastian, Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Guapangos. Any one know anything about 107.7?
 
Mrtejano said:
Now they're mixing up with Cumbias gruperas, Joan Sebastian, Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Guapangos. Any one know anything about 107.7?
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Huapangos, mijo.
 
This is probably K299BV, licensed to Houston, but current info on the FCC and Radio-Locator sites has the transmitter way out on I-10 just northwest of the Brazos River bridge. Supposedly only 10 watts on a 7 meter tower.

I heard the station with a choppy overall signal along Beltway 8 north of 290 during my morning and evening commutes today. At some places the signal was actually quite good, with fine audio quality. Seems to be running more power (or height) than claimed. I am over 30 miles from the purported transmitter site, and 10 watts on a 23 foot tower would not go that far with that kind of signal.

It is probably safe to assume that this is the same operation that was previously on 107.1, running the same sort of music. For several weeks after Christmas I had heard nothing but dead air being transmitted on 107.1 (although it was Stereo dead air) and now that signal has disappeared. The info for 107.1 also is gone from the FCC database.

Have yet to hear any kind of announcement on 107.7, although I didn't listen for very long.

This signal may cause problems for co-channel KLOT in Cat Spring, which went on the air several weeks ago.
 
Mrtejano said:
Is Latino broadcasting Corporation at it again? I am hearing Tejano music on 107.7 FM sounds like the same playlist they had on 107.1 FM in Rosenberg . No commercials no announcements no nothing but music.
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This thing is causing HD to drop out on 107.5 all over Cypress.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
This thing is causing HD to drop out on 107.5 all over Cypress.
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107.5 must be furious - they pay all that money for HD licensing fees, equipment, and programming - and one little LPFM or translator or whatever it is wipes out HD reception over vast parts of their listening area.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
107.5 must be furious - they pay all that money for HD licensing fees, equipment, and programming - and one little LPFM or translator or whatever it is wipes out HD reception over vast parts of their listening area.
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Practically no part of Austin County is part of the 107.5 protected coverage "listening area".

Only were the FCC to receive listener complaints might the 107.7 facility be required to change channel or move or go silent. There is also the possibility that the LPFM is not operating at the correct power, something we see all to often given the low level of technical knowledge of some operators or the lack of discipline of others.

I doubt that they are thinking too much about multicast channels at a time when broadcasters' main focus is on expanding streaming options.
 
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DavidEduardo said:


Practically no part of Austin County is part of the 107.5 protected coverage "listening area".

Only were the FCC to receive listener complaints might the 107.7 facility be required to change channel or move or go silent. There is also the possibility that the LPFM is not operating at the correct power, something we see all to often given the low level of technical knowledge of some operators or the lack of discipline of others.

I doubt that they are thinking too much about multicast channels at a time when broadcasters' main focus is on expanding streaming options.
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Austin county no. Harris county definitely - the presence of that 107.7 is jamming HD on 107.5. It doesn't take much to make it drop, and I am not talking about HD-2, etc which are also affected. I am talking about normal HD-1, which they definitely WOULD care about. It reduces them back to analog, which doesn't give them a competitive advantage and kind of makes all their investment moot. 107.5 is paying for the HD licensing, has a lot invested in it - and one little LPFM in an adjoining county wipes it out over big parts of Harris county. If 107.5 doesn't file a complaint - I may, because it also zaps the HD-2.
 
They have been testing with lots of Quebradita. And many songs from Banda Machos that I forgot they sang. Wonder what will end up on that frequency after this testing is done.
 
Mrtejano said:
Wonder what will end up on that frequency after this testing is done.
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Supposedly KODA is the originating station. The 99.1 HD3 is the source for La Nueva on 94.1. There was an Adult Rock format on the HD2 last I checked (my only HD receiver is in my wife's car.) Might keep an ear in the 99.1 subchannels for any changes, although translator owners have been known to fib about originating stations during the CP phase.
 
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