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Surely a mistake?

Ai4i

Ai4i

W220DU has been or had been a Reach-FM translator.
Commercial stations are not allowed translators in the reserved band.
Mega puts a fine signal into Boca/Deerfield/Parkland/Sandalfoot.
Can a commercial station operate a noncommercial HD-2 and translate it in the reserved band?
If a translator moves from channel 220 to channel 219, do they get a new callsign?
 
ai4i said:
If a translator moves from channel 220 to channel 219, do they get a new callsign?
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YES. If W220DU moves from channel 220D to channel 219D, the call letters become W219DU.
 
jmtillery said:
...the call letters become W219DU.
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Not sure about that, think they would get the next available W219?? call sign.
 
CC recently 'turned over' WRUM 100.3 HD-2 in Orlando to Calvary Chapel's Christian "Reach FM". Think they did the same thing in Detroit with Calvary. Could this be part of the same 'set of moves'? The right for Calvary to program the HD-2 in Detroit came in turn for Calvary turning over a translator to CC.

I'm thinking maybe the move is the other way out, from the noncomm to the commercial band, and CC will put a "new FM" of sorts on the air in South Florida. Remember, too, CC owns WRLX not too far either on the dial or geographically, on 92.1 in West Palm Beach.
 
It "sorta kinda" sounds like you are saying that the HD subchannels are being used as STL's to feed these low power networks, as translators can have much larger footprints than real LPFM's. This rule has got to change.
 
ai4i said:
It "sorta kinda" sounds like you are saying that the HD subchannels are being used as STL's to feed these low power networks, as translators can have much larger footprints than real LPFM's. This rule has got to change.
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CC is already using an HD-2 to relay a translator (which they bill as a 'station' unto itself) in Salt Lake City.

Cumulus is the big one here.....They have 99X in Atlanta on a translator on 97.9, and a couple of others.
 
ai4i said:
jmtillery said:
...the call letters become W219DU.
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Not sure about that, think they would get the next available W219?? call sign.
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It would definately be W219 + DU if those are not in use anywhere else on W219. If the call sign W219DU is already assigned, then the translator in question would become W219DV, W219DW, W219DX, W219DY, W219DZ, or W219EA for example, depending on what alphabet set next in sequence is available.
 
Was in range today, still Reach-FM.
 
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