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Scholarm1111

San Diego "Brush Country" Tejano has apparently added a translator in Corpus Christi (94.3) according to their on-air identification. I can't hear any sign of 94.3 on the Southside of CC though. The station hasn't put anything on their website beyond a logo:

http://www.kukafm.com/kuka.html

Of course, Tejanos KMIQ 104.9 Robstown and 93.5 Corpus Christi consolidated last year into a single station.
 
I heard the same ID in December of 2007. I was a bit too far away from listening to 94.3 since it is located in Corpus Christi. If it is indeed off, then that's very odd. Great station by the way. Talk about Texas Roots, but en espanol.

Isn't this illegal (translator way outside the coverage area )according to the FCC?
 
oldjohnny said:
Isn't this illegal (translator way outside the coverage area )according to the FCC?
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No, or at least it's perfectly legal so long as it's owned by someone other than KUKA's licensee and gets the signal off-air.
 
Well, I can get KUKA at 105.9 most of the time within the CC city limits (with a GE Superradio). I think they must have recently added the translator (past few months) because listening to the station earlier in the Fall, I did not hear 94.3 Corpus Christi listed in the legal ID.

KUKA has an amazing coverage area stretching from west of Freer all the way to Corpus Christi as I learned on a Fall trip back from Laredo. In Freer it is just about the only thing on the radio dial.

-Mark
 
Scholarm1111 said:
Well, I can get KUKA at 105.9 most of the time within the CC city limits (with a GE Superradio). I think they must have recently added the translator (past few months) because listening to the station earlier in the Fall, I did not hear 94.3 Corpus Christi listed in the legal ID.

KUKA has an amazing coverage area stretching from west of Freer all the way to Corpus Christi as I learned on a Fall trip back from Laredo. In Freer it is just about the only thing on the radio dial.

-Mark
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A translator can ID differently than the primary station...and there are ways you would not hear the ID at all...and it would be legal......stupid but thats what the FCC allows
 
Scholarm1111 said:
In Freer it is just about the only thing on the radio dial.

-Mark
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Doesn't Freer have a very weak station at 95.9? Last I checked in December, they had some type of talk programming (They were mentioning something about Fox News)

KUKA does have a good coverage. It is way stronger than sister station KOPY, and I also hear it from a couple of miles west of Freer all the way to 10 miles past George West. That's when local Beeville 105.7 kicks in and splatters.
 
The whole "translator in Metro Corpus" thing is pretty wild and wooly. As best I can tell, there is only one in the CC area which does not have an ownership problem.

YMMV

Clouseau
 
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