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Cielo 92.5 lights up from Stafford

DavidEduardo said:
Generally, a broad-band multi-station antenna with all the combiner and rejection networks for each signal is quite a lot more expensive than individual antennas.
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I understand your logic David, but consider this example. A building management company charges $5,000 a month to lease a pad. You can put a one or two bay antenna on it. Want another pad, that's $10K. Another, it's $15K. Add it up and you spend $180K a year on three stations. Or you can go buy a combiner for $20K and have one antenna on one pad for $60K a year. What would you do?
 
tb_ said:
Did you see an HD carrier? The “engineer” mentioned in a thread a while ago that they were going to put an HD exporter on KTWL 😂
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I still have not seen an HD carrier
 
+713 said:
I understand your logic David, but consider this example. A building management company charges $5,000 a month to lease a pad. You can put a one or two bay antenna on it. Want another pad, that's $10K. Another, it's $15K. Add it up and you spend $180K a year on three stations. Or you can go buy a combiner for $20K and have one antenna on one pad for $60K a year. What would you do?
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What about the FCC fees when they find multiple translators are originating programming and or overpowered?
 
HTX said:
What about the FCC fees when they find multiple translators are originating programming and or overpowered?
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Again, the licensee, not engineer, is responsible for programming. K223CW and K287BQ are not overpowered. They have a large outdoor coverage area because of the height and flat terrain, but do not penetrate inside buildings. Look at what happened last week when K223DH lit up with 1000 watts. The 30 watt K223CW couldn't even be heard near downtown.
 
+713 said:
They have a large outdoor coverage area because of the height and flat terrain, but do not penetrate inside buildings. Look at what happened last week when K223DH lit up with 1000 watts. The 30 watt K223CW couldn't even be heard near downtown.
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I can usually hear K223CW quite well in The Woodlands and west of Brookshire. Considering this station has a highly directional pattern, height and terrain doesn't explain how K223CW almost matches K283CH's coverage to the north and west in my experience. I'd be interested to know how the translators in downtown are enforcing their directional patterns.

I will also add that K223CW seemed A LOT weaker yesterday in my drive around the heights. Usually it's very solid in the car around the North Loop between Heights/Independence Heights. Care to fill us in?
 
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+713 said:
Again, the licensee, not engineer, is responsible for programming. K223CW and K287BQ are not overpowered. They have a large outdoor coverage area because of the height and flat terrain, but do not penetrate inside buildings. Look at what happened last week when K223DH lit up with 1000 watts. The 30 watt K223CW couldn't even be heard near downtown.
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Not Penetrable you say? At my job I can pick up 105.3 and not 106.5?
 
The owner's lawyer does all the filings, Mr. Tb. Anyway, the new legal IDs are already running. LaPower 105.3 is KKBQ HD3, Houston. It will be official tomorrow.
 
You clearly dont know what youre talking about.. Munn Reese is far from shady.. they are legendary in fact and one of the best engineering firms in the country.

However, they can only go by what theyre client tells them. Id wager its not one of them building it locally... Munn Reese would NEVEr build something beyond what its licensed for.
 
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The owner's lawyer does all the filings, Mr. Tb. Anyway, the new legal IDs are already running. LaPower 105.3 is KKBQ HD3, Houston. It will be official tomorrow.
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So they’re doing away with Texas Country? Btw KKBQ HD 3 is louder and sounds better than KKBQ HD 2.
 
+713 said:
I understand your logic David, but consider this example. A building management company charges $5,000 a month to lease a pad. You can put a one or two bay antenna on it. Want another pad, that's $10K. Another, it's $15K. Add it up and you spend $180K a year on three stations. Or you can go buy a combiner for $20K and have one antenna on one pad for $60K a year. What would you do?
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It depends on the building: if one puts up their own tower, then stacking several separate antennas may be cheaper. If the building puts up the tower, and rents space on it, combining stations is likely cheaper. But each situation is different.
 
Mrtejano said:
So they’re doing away with Texas Country? Btw KKBQ HD 3 is louder and sounds better than KKBQ HD 2.
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Not surprising, the playlist on KKBQ-HD3 was pretty stale... and money talks. All of the Texas Country fans I know are KILT-HD3 fans, anyway... now THAT's something that should be on a translator, not yet another low-quality Spanish format.

+713 said:
The owner's lawyer does all the filings, Mr. Tb. Anyway, the new legal IDs are already running. LaPower 105.3 is KKBQ HD3, Houston. It will be official tomorrow.
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Congrats on finally running legally.
 
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Who's the owner's lawyer? Someone with the initials D.A.? I've read questionable things about that guy in the past... On these very forums...
 
tb_ said:
Not surprising, the playlist on KKBQ-HD3 was pretty stale... and money talks. All of the Texas Country fans I know are KILT-HD3 fans, anyway... now THAT's something that should be on a translator, not yet another low-quality Spanish format.
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Which is a shame since the Texas country format on 92.9 HD3 started out as a very good station with a good playlist.

I've streamed "KIKK 100.3" from time to time and have enjoyed it, but I always default back to Spotify. Texas Country doesn't seem to do very well in major markets unfortunately. For some odd reason, it's extremely popular in college towns like Lubbock and Bryan-College Station.
 
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