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FCC Please stop!

boise...
finish it.

"If a complainant refuses to permit the FM translator or booster licensee to
apply remedial techniques which demonstrably will eliminate the
interference without impairment to the original reception, the licensee
of the FM translator or booster station is absolved of further
responsibility for that complaint."

jras...
Be prepared to spend your time helping the translator owner adjust your antenna, or adding another antenna for phasing, or changing the if filters in your receiver, or putting old window screens between your antenna and the translator, or whatever else he wants to try to fix your "interference".

I am sure BMP appreciates your help keeping up the cash flow from the eclectic programming on Jack. And I am sure you won't hear any complaints from the translator listeners either.
 
That's a good point. Since the translator will be operating within its authorized parameters there's nothing illegal about. So the question becomes what constitutes "interference"? To most people this isn't an issue unless they're trying to listen to a station beyond its service contour (60dBu), but that's where the problems can begin. It's not an issue when dealing with a station's city-grade (70dBu) contour, since stations are fully protected from co-channel, adjacent channel and IF interference within that range.

From the application for the Lockhart translator (K203CC 88.5) to move to 88.3 it's obvious the service contour for KPAC will still be protected. (Scroll to last page) http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=485231

So interference, in the strict sense, isn't the issue here. Since the stations will be fully spaced, the issue may be jras's perception of "service area." The FCC obviously disagrees. I can sympathize with him on this, since I personally feel that co-channel translators shouldn't be allowed this close, but that's the way it is.
 
Well, I'll finish it...
If it's important enough to you to be able to hear this station, let them try to "fix" the interference!
If you don't want to take the time then don't complain.
When it's co-channel then they probably have no fix.
They might be able to give you an expensive notch filter for adjacent channels.
 
"Service areas" can be highly flexible in the Gulf Coast area, where tropo scatter/ducting can be a big factor. On warm nights many co-channel FM's clobber each other, even though there is supposedly adequate distance between them.
 
I can tell you that my place is about 60 miles from San antonio, I have a directional antenna that I use for both TV and FM. K203CC is about the same distance from San antonio, I can also recieve most of if not all of San antonio stations including KPAC even with my boombox. Its sad that these boosters can just come up anywere. I dont hear any diffrents with my audio with the IBOC stations, but I can hear interferance with the K274BB out of Bastrop from Jack. Oh well. guess I'll just half to put up a higher antenna?
 
Well I'll post again real quick. That did it! They turned on the booster this after noon, I cant recieve KPAC any more, even with my outdoor antenna.
Oh well maybe its time for sat. radio. ???
 
Mediafrog+ said:
"Service areas" can be highly flexible in the Gulf Coast area, where tropo scatter/ducting can be a big factor. On warm nights many co-channel FM's clobber each other, even though there is supposedly adequate distance between them.
Click to expand...

Yep, you can count on it happening for quite a few months out of the year, especially right along the Gulf. A few years ago, while on a fishing trip at Port Aransas, I checked the radio one morning and found something on every frequency. Things from the Valley, San Antonio, Houston and even Beaumont were all giving the Corpus Christi stations next door a hard time. (The fishing was slow, but the DX catches were great!) The same thing happened the next morning, but after that it got somewhat back to normal, with about 2/3 of the distant stations gone.
 
jd said:
Mediafrog+ said:
"Service areas" can be highly flexible in the Gulf Coast area, where tropo scatter/ducting can be a big factor. On warm nights many co-channel FM's clobber each other, even though there is supposedly adequate distance between them.
Click to expand...

Yep, you can count on it happening for quite a few months out of the year, especially right along the Gulf. A few years ago, while on a fishing trip at Port Aransas, I checked the radio one morning and found something on every frequency. Things from the Valley, San Antonio, Houston and even Beaumont were all giving the Corpus Christi stations next door a hard time. (The fishing was slow, but the DX catches were great!) The same thing happened the next morning, but after that it got somewhat back to normal, with about 2/3 of the distant stations gone.
Click to expand...

We were out about 30 miles out in the Gulf out at Port O connor, listening to 93Q had a great signal most all the time out there. We went out a few weeks ago, no luck in fishing there either :(
 
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