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How else would it be attached?
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New sports format launches on 97.3
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I would think with a bracket of some sort.
It looks like it is attached to the tower with electrical tape.
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That's funny. Kind of lazy if you ask me... It's probably eventually going to fall off.
And they pass the savings on to you, the advertiser. Bring extra tape if you want your ad to run.
Pretty makeshift since they were probably planning of hopping the translator around town (see applications).
This antenna wouldn't work legally for either of those applications. Both apps are for highly directional signals using twin yagi antennas pointed away from the center of the metro. This antenna is omnidirectional.
Wow! Someone got the wrong antenna at Antennas R Us.
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From RadioInsight:
Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna transfers 97.3 K247CP Houston TX to Elohim Group Corporation for no consideration.
Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna transfers 97.3 K247CP Houston TX to Elohim Group Corporation for no consideration.
It appears Elohim has had its own challenges with the Commission.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/consent-decree-juan-alberto-ayala-and-elohim-group-corporation
Great pics!
Interesting Guel development. We can hope the FCC starts paying similar attention to his translators.
http://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/0002/guel-application-axed-by-fcc/340039
http://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/0002/guel-application-axed-by-fcc/340039
Thanks!
There will be more when and if they file for a license to cover from the new tower. I'll be curious to see if the dual yagi setup gets built or not.
Wonder if all of these illegal operations are finally getting shut down.
I'm actually wondering if it might have something to do with this. There are four Centro translators which currently specify that they're rebroadcasting KODA. Last I checked, KODA wasn't running 5 HD channels, and they weren't running any Centro programming on their HD2.
So that makes 4 translators that are supposed to be rebroadcasting KODA-HD3.
Hmmm...
Perhaps they are unable to secure any more HD subchannel leases?
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=Koda+&x=8&y=6&sr=Y&s=C
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Greetings Gentlemen:
Just because you don't hear a translator repeating an HD subchannel doesn't mean that they are not rebroadcasting a signal from the primary station. It would seem that some of you all are unfamiliar with the SCA subchannels. Here is a basic refresher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYPA8NNFC7w
Most FM transmitters and exciters have two analog SCA inputs. A good example is the old commercial free Muzak programming that offices and restaurants received via SCA subhannels. The technology for transmitting additional mono audio or digital data feeds has been around for decades. About ten years back, most stations discontinued SCA feeds as listenership was low.
In an old decision predating HD radio, the FCC disallowed feeding translators with SCA channel programming on the grounds that there were very few SCA capable receivers. However, in a more recent unpublished decision the FCC declined to sanction a translator repeating programming from an SCA feed. The gist of the decision was that allowing translators to be fed only by Ibiquity patented HD technology was arbitrary and failed to promote equitable fairness. While the decision did not specifically approve SCA translator feeds, it alerted broadcasters that they will not be fined or otherwise punished as long as they feed a translator using an FCC-approved technology -- including mono audio or a data stream sent via an SCA subcarrier.
Greetings Gentlemen:
Just because you don't hear a translator repeating an HD subchannel doesn't mean that they are not rebroadcasting a signal from the primary station. It would seem that some of you all are unfamiliar with the SCA subchannels. Here is a basic refresher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYPA8NNFC7w
Most FM transmitters and exciters have two analog SCA inputs. A good example is the old commercial free Muzak programming that offices and restaurants received via SCA subhannels. The technology for transmitting additional mono audio or digital data feeds has been around for decades. About ten years back, most stations discontinued SCA feeds as listenership was low.
In an old decision predating HD radio, the FCC disallowed feeding translators with SCA channel programming on the grounds that there were very few SCA capable receivers. However, in a more recent unpublished decision the FCC declined to sanction a translator repeating programming from an SCA feed. The gist of the decision was that allowing translators to be fed only by Ibiquity patented HD technology was arbitrary and failed to promote equitable fairness. While the decision did not specifically approve SCA translator feeds, it alerted broadcasters that they will not be fined or otherwise punished as long as they feed a translator using an FCC-approved technology -- including mono audio or a data stream sent via an SCA subcarrier.
Oh, I'm extremely familiar with SCAs and how they work. I have engineered several stations with SCAs, turning my last one off about two years ago.
So what you're saying is one of these translators is rebroadcasting a 67 kHz SCA on KODA?
I certainly hope they aren't employing a 92 kHz SCA to feed another translator, as it would be incompatible with HD Radio, and would likely be not only unlistenable on any SCA receiver, but would also tear up the HD Radio signal.
Assuming the Commission is now ok with the practice of using subcarriers to feed translators, and this is the first I've heard of this, I have to think they would require that the SCA be receivable over the air in a usable form, which I think is extremely unlikely for the 92 kHz SCA on an IBOC equipped station.
As luck would have it though, I have access to an SCA modulation monitor. I'll report back after I check out KODA's 67 and 92 kHz subcarriers.
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