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is it legal for a translator to operate when the main host hd signal is gone

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wibgradio99

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W281CL 104.1 Marlton NJ area relaying RITMO from WPEN HD3 is still OTA when the WPEN HD3 signal has been off since the first of the year.​

 
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wibgradio99 said:

W281CL 104.1 Marlton NJ area relaying RITMO from WPEN HD3 is still OTA when the WPEN HD3 signal has been off since the first of the year.​

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Yeah, definitely not.

Same thing with W264BH (Favor 100.7). It's supposed to be fed by WJBR-HD3, but that's been off for a long time too.
 
So is it ok for air1 to be on a main signal (89.5 out of Cherry Hil?)
I'm guessing it's also on the HD as the HD gets a muhc stronger signal from 106.9 WKVP.
 
So I know at one point the AM and FM could not simocast. But I see this now where you got AMS and FMS simulcasting. has this changed at some point?
 
lanceventa said:
No. A translator must be off the air if its parent signal is off. Doesn't matter if its AM, FM or HD fed.
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lanceventa said:
No. A translator must be off the air if its parent signal is off. Doesn't matter if its AM, FM or HD fed.
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I'm not sure if that is exactly true, or if it is, it certainly doesn't seem to be enforced. Which begs the question, if a rule is broken, and the authority failed to enforce the violations, is it really a rule at all?

I know of some Class D AM daytime-only stations which feed FM translators, and they not only supply programming to the FM translator during nighttime hours, they actually sell time during that period.
 
Engineering said:
I know of some Class D AM daytime-only stations which feed FM translators, and they not only supply programming to the FM translator during nighttime hours, they actually sell time during that period.
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They are allowed to do that. The concept of FM stations having to be daytime-only is silly and propagationally unnecessary.

Remember that FM translators tied to AMs exist to revitalize those broadcasters. Hard to do that if the translator is off more than it is on.
 
An FM translator must carry what the primary station airs. Thus, if the primary signal is down, the translator, by law, is to be as well. An AM daytimer with a translator may broadcast on the translator 24/7 as the exception to that.
 
Could W281CL be relaying Ritmo from another translator?
And W264BH seems to be originating programming. I wish that this translator could have moved to Philly before 2014, when it relayed WBZC z88.9, when it was a dance station. Brett would have loved that.
 
wibgradio99 said:
104.1 is back on the air stronger then ever with RITMO, when WPEN HD3 is gone, why does the FCC continue to look the other way with certain formats and owners...
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Lack of money for enforcement I would suspect. Focusing in areas that have a large impact to legal license holders.
 
they are off again, with silent carrier, could they be playing hide and seek with the FCC, Catch us if you can.... DC5 number 4, hit 1965...
 
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