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KGVY translator

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RadioBill

KGVY just moved their translator from 100.7 to 101.5 (K268BB) which is right next door to KDRI's 101.7 translator. Based upon my drive from Sahuarita to Tucson this morning it appears that K268BB isn't up to full power yet. CP is for 250 watts and directional toward Tucson but it appeared to me that 101.5 is still running 35 watts ND as it did on 100.7. Once KGVY's 101.5 translator is up to full power, I wonder if there is going to be adjacent-channel interference issues with KDRI's 101.7 translator in parts of Tucson?
 
Any idea what the advantage is of using 101.5 instead of 100.7? Both channels are used by high powered Phoenix stations. Now if you have a good receiver you can listen to KSLX without interference from the KGVY translator. That is, until some other translator ends up on 100.7. Stations losing their audience due to the translators should be able to collect damages from Ajit Pai.
 
According to one of the owners of KGVY, here is the reason for the change:
"100.7 was limited to 35 watts in all directions--- 101.5 is 250 watts toward the north--50 watts toward the south (Mexico)". One can only wonder why 35 watts was the limit on one frequency but 250 watts for the other..
Personally I have noticed no improvement in the signal in the Tucson area. It may actually be a little weaker. And the close proximity to the K-Dry translator certainly doesn't help them. They used to interfere with 100.7 Phoenix. Now they interfere with 101.5 Phoenix.
 
Based upon my drive home from the airport today, it appears that the 101.5 translator has now stepped-up it's power. Unfortunately the audio quality is still gawd-awful - worst sounding station on the local FM dial.
 
CAVEMANager said:
According to one of the owners of KGVY, here is the reason for the change:
"100.7 was limited to 35 watts in all directions--- 101.5 is 250 watts toward the north--50 watts toward the south (Mexico)". One can only wonder why 35 watts was the limit on one frequency but 250 watts for the other.
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There's an obvious reason - protection from degradation to a primary signal - but where? Mexico? Phoenix?

It would all depend on those primary signals and where they are licensed to cover.

CAVEMANager said:
Personally I have noticed no improvement in the signal in the Tucson area. It may actually be a little weaker. And the close proximity to the K-Dry translator certainly doesn't help them. They used to interfere with 100.7 Phoenix. Now they interfere with 101.5 Phoenix.
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Sure...why not a few more translators to the mix, right?

/sarcasm
 
RadioBill said:
Based upon my drive home from the airport today, it appears that the 101.5 translator has now stepped-up it's power. Unfortunately the audio quality is still gawd-awful - worst sounding station on the local FM dial.
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It appears that my previous report above was erroneous. Yesterday while driving in Tucson on I-10 between Prince and Kino Parkway there was absolutely no sign of KGVY's translator. After leaving Tucson I drove down I-19 and started hearing it around the Ajo exit but it was battling KALV Phoenix all the way south to the Papago exit. Pretty much the same signal I remember from when they were on 100.7. I see now that 100.7 now has a LPFM licensed to Old Pascua Village.

By contrast, KDRI's 101.7 250-watt translator can be heard all the way from Oracle AZ (far north of Tucson on AZ77) to Sahuarita.
 
After driving around various parts of Tucson I'd say that the KGVY translator's signal is worse than it used to be just about everywhere with the possible exception of Green Valley. Since their music is nothing out of the ordinary nobody will care much.
By contrast the K-DRY FM signal can clearly be heard along I-10 a couple miles into Cochise County. It becomes weak and noisy by the time you reach the interchange for Highway 90 that goes to Sierra Vista. Of course, in the daytime their AM signal dwarfs the FM and I heard it clearly along I-17 maybe 30 miles north of Phoenix.
 
Best I can tell KGVY never increased the power of it's translator when it moved from 100.7 to 101.5. Two days ago I tuned into 101.5 as I pulled up to a red light at I-19 and Continental Road in Green Valley. At the traffic light it was all KALV from Phoenix. And I still can't hear K268BB on my car radio in Tucson. BTW, K268BB's audio quality is still horrendous.
 
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