KFWD STA FOR 18.6 KW

[Bob E. Nelson]

KFWD/52 was granted an STA to operate with 18.6 kw for three weeks post-transition. Co-channel KCEN/9 consented to the increased power (using the current WFAA-DT RF 9 facility). This vastly improves KFWD's original post-transition STA facility of 800 watts on RF 9.

 

[Mediafrog+]

They apparently have a modification on a construction permit to eventually go to 55kw on RF 9. Wonder if the three week STA for 18.6kw is just to see if there are any interference issues with KCEN, and if not, would be extended until the 55kw facility is ready?

The 55kw signal would be directional away from KCEN, BTW.

 

[arnoldevns]

I'll never understand how KCEN was allowed to move to DTV 9. It overlaps heavily with 9 in the DFW market. It's got to make the folks in Ellis and Hill counties nuts. The FCC needs to figure out a way to move one of these stations off of 9 and on to a better channel.

 

[Bob E. Nelson]

I'll never understand how KCEN was allowed to move to DTV 9. It overlaps heavily with 9 in the DFW market. It's got to make the folks in Ellis and Hill counties nuts. The FCC needs to figure out a way to move one of these stations off of 9 and on to a better channel.

RF 9 is also assigned to San Antonio. I haven't measured the distance from Eddy (KCEN) to the San Antonio farm
in Elmendorf -- but it seems like wedging in RF to Waco/Temple was a tight fit.

Similarly, it appears RF 11 in Lawton (Wichita Falls market) is what will keep KTVT from running more than 23 kw post-transition.

 

[Mediafrog+]

RF 9 is also assigned to San Antonio. I haven't measured the distance from Eddy (KCEN) to the San Antonio farm
in Elmendorf -- but it seems like wedging in RF to Waco/Temple was a tight fit.

Any overlap between the KCEN and KLRN digital signals would be irrelevant from a practical standpoint, as such an overlap would occur in the Austin area, which isn't watching either station.

 

[arnoldevns]

RF 9 is also assigned to San Antonio. I haven't measured the distance from Eddy (KCEN) to the San Antonio farm
in Elmendorf -- but it seems like wedging in RF to Waco/Temple was a tight fit.

Any overlap between the KCEN and KLRN digital signals would be irrelevant from a practical standpoint, as such an overlap would occur in the Austin area, which isn't watching either station.

Which makes the overlap from KCEN and KFWD (or WFAA right now) all the more stunning. There are a lot of people south of the DFW area who watch stations from both the DFW and Waco markets.

 

[Kent]

Any overlap between the KCEN and KLRN digital signals would be irrelevant from a practical standpoint, as such an overlap would occur in the Austin area, which isn't watching either station.

When I was in Austin in February, I had little trouble getting KCEN on analog 6. I could not, however, get digital 9 at all. Although the contour maps indicated I might have been able to get KCEN-DT at Metric and Braker, I suspect you'd have to have pretty good equipment to actually pick it up there, even after it maximizes. I can't imagine anyone in Austin is watching KCEN now, if they ever did in the first place. TV shouldn't be something I have to work at to enjoy, and I suspect the average viewer feels the same way.