KTAR Hires New PD

[mr_carlson]

Re: KMVP upgrade?

> > 2000 watts won't cut it, even if they moved to a more
> > centralized location. They still have to null to the
> > southwest to protect Tijuana so sharing with KTAR is out.
>
>
> 620 is getting illegal interference from a different station
> group in T-Town. Other than the fact the once upon a time
> international broadcasting conventions imposed a moral, if
> not legal, requirement not to step on each other, what's to
> stop a power up on 860 in Phoenix?
>
It's called Mexican Concurrence. That's where we ask them for "acknowledgement" when making engineering changes on a station within 250 kilometers of the border. It seems that the courtesy is a one-way street.

 

[davideduardo]

Re: KMVP upgrade?

> > 2000 watts won't cut it, even if they moved to a more
> > centralized location. They still have to null to the
> > southwest to protect Tijuana so sharing with KTAR is out.
>
>
> 620 is getting illegal interference from a different station
> group in T-Town.

XEMO's operations were protested to the Comisión Mixta, and resolved. XEMO has been operating legally per agreements for more than a year, and the non-conforming (that is, legal in Mexico but determined not in agreement with the treaty) was gone in less than 6 months.

> Other than the fact the once upon a time
> international broadcasting conventions imposed a moral, if
> not legal, requirement not to step on each other, what's to
> stop a power up on 860 in Phoenix?

That is true at the government to government levels. But if a Mexican station is licensed by its government to increase power, the station owner is hardly at fault.
>