Drove down to the address on the FCC app. Nothing there. A 30m tower should have been obvious. Tuned to 1100. There was a Spanish language program there. Very bad automation. Skipping like an old LP followed by silence followed by female Spanish announcer. Happened several times. Waited for an ID but lost it completely northbound on I-25 around Rio Bravo.
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Clicking around on Google maps and street view: yeah, that should be pretty easy to see if it was there. The L2C even gives the street address confirming that there's no typo in the coordinates.
It's so interesting that you're receiving them. Not exactly easy to just throw an AM antenna up.
It's so interesting that you're receiving them. Not exactly easy to just throw an AM antenna up.
how many threads do we need on the same station? Shouldnt it all be confined to one threads?
Let's skip over whether the station is legal (CP expired and no license in the FCC database (that I can find)). Why would anybody want to put a 1kW daytimer on the air nowadays? The only real purpose would be to feed a translator (93.7?) but that could probably be done easier and cheaper with a KDLW-HD2 signal.
The license to cover was filed on November 22. It has not yet been granted by the FCC.
You have to pay a few for HD licensing
Tower, land, STL, Transmitter vs HD license. I can't believe is is cheaper to put an AM on the air.
You can put an AM on the air fairly cheap if you have to and be done with the $ ostly.. you pay on HD every year
As I recall he paid about 25k for the construction permit and if there is a signal that only goes as far north as Rio Bravo then maybe he is using a cheap transmitter to get at least an acceptable enough signal to get a license. Not sure what the costs of converting an FM to an HD radio broadcast would be. Only iHeart, KANW and KUNM have HD signals here. I don't know if 104.7 still has an HD signal or if iHeart disabled it when they handed it off to Delmarva. This may be the only case where a new AM is built to feed an FM translator. Of course, this is also adding to an already crowded market where the long-established stations get most of the shares. I can see why Vanguard might want to expand to compete with the other three main broadcasters, but right now two of their stations are struggling below a 1.0. The question is can they do anything that could make some impact here with so much competition?
KVVD was granted a license on Monday (Feb. 28). I did hear KDLW on that signal in the NW although it was very weak. So now I guess we see what happens next.
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