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Is Cox now getting in the translator game?

jabba17

jabba17

Noticed that Cox has a CP for a translator at 96.5, currently 5W/13ft between Carl and Winder, to move to the Chateau Elan (97.1/95.5) tower at 250W/1421ft (4 feet higher than 95.5) See http://www.radio-locator.com/info/W243CE-FX

Couple questions:

1) Can someone short-space a third-adjacent on the same tower like that? Or is the translator at the mercy of 97.1 so the short-spacing wouldn't be an issue?

2) What would Cox be doing with that signal? Obviously simuling WSB (AM) isn't a possibility, unless it's to fill in once 95.5 moves intown. One idea would be to simul WSB-FM-HD2 (98.5, soft AC), or maybe The Beat (WSRV-HD2). Or it could be a simul for 104.1 (although there is already a CP to move WALR-FM closer in anyway)
 
Just checked RecNet and the translator is actually owned by Davis Broadcasting, not Cox, but is currently simuling the NEW 97.1 The River.

I wonder if Davis is looking at simuling 100.1 as the "parent" station and doing something else with 102.3...I'm guessing the translator would have more coverage at that HAAT than WLKQ 102.3 has on their short stick.

Unfortunately for BRENT and I, I don't think Lake 102 is making a comeback if they do--and if it did, they would have stiff competition they didn't have before from True Oldies and Kool 102.9.
 
jabba17 said:
1) Can someone short-space a third-adjacent on the same tower like that? Or is the translator at the mercy of 97.1 so the short-spacing wouldn't be an issue?
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Yes. Translators are not subject to the same spacing requirements as traditional and low power FM stations. In fact, there is no minimum separation requirement in terms of miles or kilometers for translators whatsoever. They simply have to prove that their signal will not cause interference to stations on the same and adjacent channels. If, for any reason, they cause interference, they're supposed to cease broadcasting immediately.
 
Are you sure that this is the final location? All they have do is fire this up for a day on these facilities, and then they can move it again. To do the translator shuffle, all you have to do is overlap the 60 dbu contours. Maybe someone can figure out whether the contours from one of the Atlanta tall towers would sufficiently overlap.

I wonder if Cox has an auxillary antenna for 97.1 at that height? You could probably get away with running a 250 watt transmitter on 96.5 into that.
 
It appears that Davis has yet another translator, this one simuling La Raza, at 100.7, also between Carl and Winder. It also has a CP to move to 101.1 on the River/WSB 95.5 Chateau Elan stick, at a full 250W. Height above ground is a much shorter 745 feet than the one at 96.5.

http://www.radio-locator.com/info/W264AR-FX

Now, Davis will have three smallish signals in the same general area--WLKQ and the two translators.
 
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