Changes coming to 95.1 again??

[Mrtejano]

I’m hearing RADIO LUZ on both 94.1 and 96.1, meanwhile 95.3 is La Nueva.

 

[Mrtejano]

I’m hearing RADIO LUZ on both 94.1 and 96.1, meanwhile 95.3 is La Nueva.

And I posted 95.1 but meant 94.1.

 

[Mrtejano]

There’s a new translator moving into Houston also on 92.5 K223HD and coverage map seems that will cover around a little south of Katy Area. While K223CW seems to have a app to move it a little north.

 

[cotton belt]

There’s a new translator moving into Houston also on 92.5 K223HD and coverage map seems that will cover around a little south of Katy Area. While K223CW seems to have a app to move it a little north.

I'll take a crack at this, as you have it completely wrong. K223DH has been operating in Houston for a couple of years now. It started off broadcasting on 102.5, as K273CW covering southwest Houston, but moved to 103.5 in 2018, which drew opposition from the Cypress Broadcasting Club and Educational Media Foundation. As a result of that ill advised headache, the church has applied to move the translator to 92.5. K296HJ Brookshire, currently operating on 107.1, is also moving to 102.5, BTW. Both applications can be found in the FCC database. We'll see if KMKS down in Bay City starts fielding complaints next.

It's been a couple years since I have been down there in Houston, but unless something dramatic has recently happened, calling Missouri City "a little south of Katy" is quite a stretch.

 

[Mrtejano]

I'll take a crack at this, as you have it completely wrong. K223DH has been operating in Houston for a couple of years now. It started off broadcasting on 102.5, as K273CW covering southwest Houston, but moved to 103.5 in 2018, which drew opposition from the Cypress Broadcasting Club and Educational Media Foundation. As a result of that ill advised headache, the church has applied to move the translator to 92.5. K296HJ Brookshire, currently operating on 107.1, is also moving to 102.5, BTW. Both applications can be found in the FCC database. We'll see if KMKS down in Bay City starts fielding complaints next.

It's been a couple years since I have been down there in Houston, but unless something dramatic has recently happened, calling Missouri City "a little south of Katy" is quite a stretch.

It’s K223CW and I’m not a radio expert. I do not work in the industry just a listener.

 

[Mediafrog+]

K223DH has been operating in Houston for a couple of years now. It started off broadcasting on 102.5, as K273CW covering southwest Houston

I recall that incarnation of the translator was only on the air for a single day, running La Nueva. That was in November 2016.

but moved to 103.5 in 2018, which drew opposition from the Cypress Broadcasting Club and Educational Media Foundation.

The 103.5 translator was about as horrible an operation as I've ever heard. Extreme overmodulation to the point where the audio was unintelligible. Slopped over to the first adjacent frequencies, which drew the complaint from EMF (which, in one filing, referred to the translator operation as "sordid".) Also was supposed to have a directional antenna protecting KCYB, but instead was running non-directional, wiping out the Cypress LPFM. The translator should have had its license revoked. Awful operation, thank goodness it is gone from 103.5.

As a result of that ill advised headache, the church has applied to move the translator to 92.5. K296HJ Brookshire, currently operating on 107.1, is also moving to 102.5, BTW. Both applications can be found in the FCC database. We'll see if KMKS down in Bay City starts fielding complaints next.

Whatever happened to K273CD 102.5 in the Bellville area? It was rebroadcasting KULF and its Chinese language programming until that station disappeared last October. Used to be able to hear it at my Cy-Fair location before KJFI went on the air.

The moved translator will be too far away to bother KMKS in its market area, as was the case with K273CD.

 

[cotton belt]

It’s K223CW and I’m not a radio expert. I do not work in the industry just a listener.

No sir, it is not. K223CW and K223DH are two entirely separate licensed translators. K223CW is only changing the directional pattern, while K223DH is a frequency change altogether.

I am not an expert, either. To be quite honest with you, mrtejano, I don't believe there is such a thing as an expert in our industries, as the mediums are always progressing, always changing, and always forcing adaptation. The very moment that you think you may know everything there is to know, someone or something comes along which proves you wrong.

I corrected your earlier post, because it was inaccurate. Take it as it was intended; an attempt to help you get your facts straight, not an attack on you as "just a listener".

Perhaps down the road we can delve deeper into that particular personal peeve of mine regarding you depicting yourself as "just a listener".

 

[cotton belt]

Whatever happened to K273CD 102.5 in the Bellville area?

Forgive me as I am not in Houston, so I am not as well versed in the status of all of the stations down there as I am up here in our market and the adjacents. The translator can not be live, with the AM silent. If KULF is silent, its associated translator has to be as well. I just browsed through the KULF file, and can't find anything related to an STA silent notification attached, and the last known authorized silence was in May 2010. If it and the translator are off the air, the Commission isn't apparently aware of it. That's a no-no.

The moved translator will be too far away to bother KMKS in its market area, as was the case with K273CD.

On paper, you are correct. I don't know how this particular group operates their facilities down there in "H-town", but up in "Big D" they have been known to *ahem* fudge a bit when it comes to effective radiated power.

 

[Mrtejano]

I recall that incarnation of the translator was only on the air for a single day, running La Nueva. That was in November 2016.



The 103.5 translator was about as horrible an operation as I've ever heard. Extreme overmodulation to the point where the audio was unintelligible. Slopped over to the first adjacent frequencies, which drew the complaint from EMF (which, in one filing, referred to the translator operation as "sordid".) Also was supposed to have a directional antenna protecting KCYB, but instead was running non-directional, wiping out the Cypress LPFM. The translator should have had its license revoked. Awful operation, thank goodness it is gone from 103.5.



Whatever happened to K273CD 102.5 in the Bellville area? It was rebroadcasting KULF and its Chinese language programming until that station disappeared last October. Used to be able to hear it at my Cy-Fair location before KJFI went on the air.

The moved translator will be too far away to bother KMKS in its market area, as was the case with K273CD.

Did not take it as any attack, sorry if I sounded like I was.


Oh in other news I’m driving to Austin and was able to listen to 105.3 fm La Caliente in Brenham Tx

 

[cotton belt]

I’m driving to Austin and was able to listen to 105.3 fm La Caliente in Brenham Tx

I don't want to misread this. Are you saying that you heard "La Caliente" on 105.3 KTWL itself, or coming from the 105.3 K287BQ translator in Houston, while you were within close proximity to Brenham city limits?

For reference, KTWL's studio is in Brenham, with the tower located just east of highway 6, between Navasota and Hempstead. If that's the translator you were hearing in Brenham, they are running it hotter than hell itself. If it's KTWL, I guess the old saying of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" would apply.

It would mark the return of Spanish language programming to the signal, as it once was Spanish religious KEZB many moons ago. It would also mark one of the rare occasions that Roy Henderson leased out a facility of his.

 

[Mrtejano]

I am assuming it was just the signal of K287BQ because once we were driving northbound towards Austin the station started picking up an English station. And one our way back when we were driving southbound (or 290 East back to Houston )we started picking up La Caliente again

 

[AnyHuman]

Are they both Spanish Christian stations, LUZ and Nueva?

 

[Mediafrog+]

Are they both Spanish Christian stations, LUZ and Nueva?

Yes, very similar formats, though I'm sure someone more familiar with the genre could point out a number of differences.

I've heard more preaching on Luz, while Nueva seems more music intensive. But only a small sample size on my part.

 

[Mrtejano]

Yes, very similar formats, though I'm sure someone more familiar with the genre could point out a number of differences.

I've heard more preaching on Luz, while Nueva seems more music intensive. But only a small sample size on my part.

The only difference I have noticed is that Radio Luz plays a little more Christian Regional Mexican and Grupero music while La Nueva stocks to full slow worship songs and a few Christian Merengue and salsa songs.

 

[foldap]

Forgive me as I am not in Houston, so I am not as well versed in the status of all of the stations down there as I am up here in our market and the adjacents. The translator can not be live, with the AM silent. If KULF is silent, its associated translator has to be as well. I just browsed through the KULF file, and can't find anything related to an STA silent notification attached, and the last known authorized silence was in May 2010. If it and the translator are off the air, the Commission isn't apparently aware of it. That's a no-no.



On paper, you are correct. I don't know how this particular group operates their facilities down there in "H-town", but up in "Big D" they have been known to *ahem* fudge a bit when it comes to effective radiated power.

I heard KULF AM translator 102.5 FM is in the repair shop.