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KSBJ's Sugar Land translator (redux?)...

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AndyWaldrop said:
KSBJ has been, or very soon will be, issued a "cease-and-desist" order by Lee Browning in the Houston FCC office. That translator will be off soon...perhaps even by the end of the day today.
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This is the translator that wouldn't die.

The latest news, in looking over the applications filed by KSBJ, is that they want to change the frequency of the translator again. In the filing they make mention of the shut-down order issued by Mr. Browning due to complaints of co-channel and first adjacent channel interference. Scroll down and click on the "technical statement" exhibit here: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101350064&formid=349&fac_num=65769

The new frequency (97.3) isn't exactly complaint-proof, however. KFNC 97.5 might have something to say about the proposed change.
 
Here's an idea - why don't they make it at 89.3, same as their own frequency? It could then be synchronized with their own broadcasting, and it would screw up any other broadcaster.

I also noted the name "A. Ray Fitch III" on the application - same guy that files for the non-existent KRCM in the Woodlands.
 
stan said:
Here's an idea - why don't they make it at 89.3, same as their own frequency? It could then be synchronized with their own broadcasting, and it would screw up any other broadcaster.

I also noted the name "A. Ray Fitch III" on the application - same guy that files for the non-existent KRCM in the Woodlands.
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Two reasons come to mind:

1. On-channel boosters only may be placed within a signal's primary contour. Sugar Land is not within KSBJ's 60 dBu contour. http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM106156.html (Neither is Shine All Nine.)

2. You need terrain to shadow the main signal so your radio isn't fighting between the main signal and the on channel booster, even if they're synchronized. As I am reminded every time I train for the MS 150, we don't have hills in this town, which is why you won't see any of the rimshots trying to use one.
 
jd said:
The new frequency (97.3) isn't exactly complaint-proof, however. KFNC 97.5 might have something to say about the proposed change.
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So will KTHT 97.1. If management at both Cumulus and Cox is awake, this application will go nowhere.

If the FCC granted 99.9, which is a second adjacent to 100.3 (MC stick), then why couldn't 94.9 or 95.3 be options?

The FM band is becoming badly overcrowded. The proposals to eliminate TV channels 5 and 6 in order to expand the band down to 76 MHz are starting to make more sense.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
jd said:
The new frequency (97.3) isn't exactly complaint-proof, however. KFNC 97.5 might have something to say about the proposed change.
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So will KTHT 97.1. If management at both Cumulus and Cox is awake, this application will go nowhere.

If the FCC granted 99.9, which is a second adjacent to 100.3 (MC stick), then why couldn't 94.9 or 95.3 be options?

The FM band is becoming badly overcrowded. The proposals to eliminate TV channels 5 and 6 in order to expand the band down to 76 MHz are starting to make more sense.
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May be wrong about this, but what is the distance between Cleveland and Sugarland? KTHT may not have a leg to stand on in this argument, due to its distance, but KFNC most assuredly would.
 
Well...it's not over 'til the fat lady sings. There is ALWAYS a possibility that the FCC could rule in KSBJ's favor and allow them to return their translator to the air on 99.9. The FCC may just decide that the translator on 99.9 isn't affecting any great number of people. Most certainly, it isn't affecting KSHN's City Grade signal, nor is it affecting any of KSHN's meaningful contours beyond City Grade.

Again, the possibility of that translator returning to the air on 99.9 is there. I just hope that it is more a matter of "possibilty" than of "probablilty."
 
What you're seeing here is what happens when lawyers, accountants and those who think they're engineers take over a radio station. It's a hilarious version of chaos where they can't make up their minds what they want to do. They just know that they have to do something in order to keep the con going so they don't lose the support of the listeners they're conning.

They appointed an IT manager to head the engineering department of that place and let two good engineers get away. Yes. They were both good friends of mine. So, maybe I'm a little biased. But, now they're paying the price for their incompetence. Actually, it's the listeners who are paying.
 
mrbeasley said:
Actually, it's the listeners who are paying.
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In more ways than one.



And YES, George Schank is a great engineer!!!
 
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