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Old School 99.3 off the air

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secondchoice

I saw this story on the other site and went to the FCC site:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...t=25&appn=101683090&formid=910&fac_num=152237

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=59333

So I guess either there was a mistake in the insulation or the antenna did not preform to specs. Don't they do field RF measurements after insulation any more?

IMHO: I would have made sure the folks in Cornelia would not complain to the FCC before I started trying to build an audience.

BTW I don't think there has been a lot (by summer standards) lately:

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html

so there might be a legitimate issue here.
 
Remember, Edgewater is kind of the equivalent of a patent troll... they license translators by the hundreds and lease them out. In that one of their local translators licensed for something like ~~ 200 Wats transmitter out was found at 3,000 Watts out, they may well have tired of the games their lessee was playing. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Since the interference is co-channel, you can't simply give the folks with problems a $2 filter.
 
The complaint from WCON-FM is interesting. Good find. I'm wondering if 99.3 has any chance of remaining on the air after WCON switches on their 100,000 watts, which could happen as early as the end of the summer.
 
If a listener to WCON complains about interference from a translator, It <under FCC rules> must leave the air. I put the brackets around that, since the FCC seems to have a difficult time following their own rules most of the time.
 
The fact that 5 of the complainants refused to work with Edgewater engineering sounds suspicious to me. But a directional antenna will probably resolve the problem or re-orientation if they already have one.
 
I don't find it suspicious at all - that's one in six or seven, about the average mad homeowner who says basically 'go to hell. make it quit.' Also, we don't know what egdewater asked them to do. I've worked a lot of complaints which fell under 73.333 (full service stations, not translators) which are a bit different... Allocations for full service pretty much preclude co-channel interference though. Reducing the RF toward WCON is about all that's gonna help here.
 
Those complaints don't even have to come from in the market either. I live in Connecticut. There's a popular religious station called WIHS 104.9 FM in Middletown. There was a translator down in Bridgeport on 104.9 that was running Portuguese Programming (from WFAR). The translator got sold they boosted their signal and switched to Spanish Tropical. (Via 104.1 HD2). Well several people from Long Island complained they couldn't pick up WIHS any more. So the 104.9 translator in Bridgeport ended up moving to 104.5 FM.
 
Bridgeport - lodry, was the home office when I worked for Katz/NewCity back in The Day. Kinda scary place then - either uber rich or dirt poor, no middles class whatsoever.
 
That would explain why I'm getting WCON Cornelia insted of 99.3 near Stone Mountain. I was thinking WCON did some kind of power upgrade.
 
Those 5 complainants could be one person. (Sort of like illegal aliens having 4 or 5 identities.) But Edgewater engineering might just be an IT guy.
Edgewater needs to get their consulting engineer to look at the problem. SOMETHING has changed. The FCC would not have approved it initially if the numbers didn't work. Maybe something like a 10 bay antenna installed instead of a 6 bay or incorrect height on the tower. (You'd be surprised at how many tower crews can't read English.)
 
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