99.9 petition to deny

[AnyHuman]

FM TRANSLATOR APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSE TO COVER PETITION TO DENY
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TX BLFT-20170522AAW K260CC 142033 CLARO COMMUNICATIONS, LTD. License to cover.
E 99.9 MHZ SAN ANTONIO, TX
Petition to Deny filed 12/26/2017
by J. B. SALAZAR


J. B. says that K260CC is running far over the legal limit for it's licensed power. From what I've read in the past here on these forums and from what somebody told me a couple years back, Claro Communications's 102.3 FM was running over the power limit a few years ago... Hopefully Claro Communications starts following the rules soon!

GO here and click on Correspondence Folder.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws....ion_id=1735829

 

[TheBigA]

AFAIK, running over legal power is not grounds to deny a license. Its grounds for a fine.

 

[AnyHuman]

The link no longer works, so if you want to see the petition look up K260CC with FCCData.org.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

AFAIK, running over legal power is not grounds to deny a license. Its grounds for a fine.

As long as violations are not deemed to be willful or repeated by the Commission, yes.

 

[b-turner]

I see the words 'willful' and 'repeated' used frequently in FCC documents that justify the FCC issuing a fine. I would suspect the best way to get the license yanked is to not pay a fine before the license renews or do virtually everything wrong and continue to do so even after a fine. For example, a LPFM station running about 10x the assigned power from a site not authorized and running commercials (not Underwriting) was met with an admonishment. After nothing changed many months later, the license was yanked by the FCC. I doubt revocation but rather a fine.

 

[AnyHuman]

Well 99.9's audio is very distorted and sounds terrible. Even some of the other LPFMs in town which have their volume maxed out don't sound as bad. 99.9's volume is too loud for the transmitter. Maybe they're looking for attention with the higher power and louder volume.

 

[TheBigA]

Once again, AFAIK, nothing in the rules to deny a license because of awful audio.

 

[AnyHuman]

Claro submitted a reply in January fighting the petition.
Then J.B. submitted a reply to the opposition, fighting Claro.

Meanwhile the 99.9 station still broadcasts, and the Conjunto music is turned up too loud!

 

[AnyHuman]

LOL I guess I'm better at setting up audio equipment than KEDA is, or at least their engineers.
This is KEDA as it sounds now on 99.9 today. Good music for busting out the tequila to LOL https://www.sendspace.com/file/j8hzby

This is my part 15 with me playing some tejano to test the volume. https://www.sendspace.com/file/gynrwy