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SA 93.3 and 93.7 Translators

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Both these translators have been down for at least a few days. 93.3 is dead air while 93.7 is totally off the air. Anybody think it's a strange coincidence how these two illegal Spanish Christian translators right next to each other are to go down close to the same time?
 
I noticed that on Friday morning. KLMO 98.9 and K227BH 93.3 (which translates KLMO) both had dead air. So one would think that the sat feed over at the KLMO site in Dilley went down but I know for a fact that K227BH doesn't translate an over the air signal of KLMO. There is a Channel Master dish at the transmitter site that is active. The coax wire for the FM over the air antenna has been chopped off for years now. It's simply there at the site as a decoy. My guess is either Paulino Bernal lost the uplink to the satellite or he is having some sort of technical issue with audio over at his studios in McAllen. So that's 6 days of no legal ID's...just dead air. It's safe to say that they don't have these sites correctly setup. The translator transmitter should be set up to shut down in the event of dead air and Dilley should have a remote control on the transmitter so that he can remotely turn off the transmitter from McAllen in times like this.


You can see the satellite dish on the google street view image here:

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I did notice that I couldn't pick up 93.7 either but I just thought it was the area I was at.
 
I'm not sure about the specific rules of how the originating station feeds the translator. But I once noticed in Austin one of the FM translators that was simulcasting an AM station continued on the air normally even while the AM parent station had severe audio difficulties. Maybe you just have to prove at the onset that it can be done OTA, then you do it the way it sounds best.
 
The FCC allows FM translators that relay AM's to be fed directly instead of with a radio tuned to the AM. I don't think the 93.3 and 93.7 translators can be fed over satellite, though they'd be allowed to do so if they were below 92.1.
 
fredcantu said:
I'm not sure about the specific rules of how the originating station feeds the translator. But I once noticed in Austin one of the FM translators that was simulcasting an AM station continued on the air normally even while the AM parent station had severe audio difficulties. Maybe you just have to prove at the onset that it can be done OTA, then you do it the way it sounds best.
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Yeah as Kent said AM stations that are on FM translators can be fed via an STL link, a T1, etc. The rules for FM stations on translators states that the translator can only be fed with an off the air signal from the originating FM station or translator. The only FM stations that are exempt from that rule and are allowed to feed translators via satellite are non commercial FM stations. This is where the term satellators comes into play.
 
Kent said:
The FCC allows FM translators that relay AM's to be fed directly instead of with a radio tuned to the AM. I don't think the 93.3 and 93.7 translators can be fed over satellite, though they'd be allowed to do so if they were below 92.1.
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98.9 is fed over satellite unattended. There are no real actual studios and personnel for KLMO. It's being operated as remote studio station but it doesn't have a remote studio waiver from the FCC.
 
Infamous said:
98.9 is fed over satellite unattended. There are no real actual studios and personnel for KLMO. It's being operated as remote studio station but it doesn't have a remote studio waiver from the FCC.
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I noticed earlier that 98.9 sounds fine and is on the air. So it's just 93.3 they need to fix now.
 
KevanGC said:
Infamous said:
98.9 is fed over satellite unattended. There are no real actual studios and personnel for KLMO. It's being operated as remote studio station but it doesn't have a remote studio waiver from the FCC.
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I noticed earlier that 98.9 sounds fine and is on the air. So it's just 93.3 they need to fix now.
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Darn, that means I can no longer listen to 98.9 out of Austin the minute I get to the Forum on IH-35!
 
KevanGC said:
Infamous said:
98.9 is fed over satellite unattended. There are no real actual studios and personnel for KLMO. It's being operated as remote studio station but it doesn't have a remote studio waiver from the FCC.
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I noticed earlier that 98.9 sounds fine and is on the air. So it's just 93.3 they need to fix now.
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Hmmm...maybe someone went and stuck some gum under the sat feedhorns. lol
 
Infamous said:
98.9 is fed over satellite unattended. There are no real actual studios and personnel for KLMO. It's being operated as remote studio station but it doesn't have a remote studio waiver from the FCC.
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KLMO being fed via satellite isn't a problem, but, as you mention, it would have to have a main studio waiver to operate without the main studio or personnel. Sounds like that operation is full of violations if the FCC wanted to look at it!
 
93.7 came back a few days after this topic was started. 93.3, well...

K227BH 93.3 has been dead air for a whole month now! The transmitter is still turned on but no audio has played since late April. What a big waste of electrricity... I wonder if they even know it's dead. Maybe not.
Bernal needs to actually start caring about his stations.
 
KevanGC said:
Bernal needs to actually start caring about his stations.
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Or in this case, Carlos Lopez who would ultimately be the one fined by the FCC.

(did I just type out "fined by the FCC" in a San Antonio radio forum?? Hahaha! Yeah like that will ever happen. Wishful thinking on my part I guess)
 
K227BH 93.3 is finally back with no audio.

If this keeps up, maybe they'll license it as a translator for 103.1. :p
 
Noticed earlier there's audio on 93.3 now. Same format as before, possibly sounds better quality than it used to.
But why is the audio on it bouncing from one channel to the other? As it gets louder, I can tell it moves to the left. As it gets quieter, it moves to the right. It's like they've got lots of compression, but it's set up the wrong way or something.
 
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