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Read this week on www.Fybush.com that WCJW/Warsaw is working on a power increase to 8 thousand watts, which would thus allow an increase in coverage area for their 3 FM translators. Very cool. Nice to see another indy radio operation in WNY expanding.

FM translators are like a real gift from the gods for stand alone AMs. Just wondering - it is not possible that heritage community AM'ers WBTA/Batavia, WLVL/Lockport and WXRL/Lancaster can also put up FM translators(or they would have done so already)?
 
Anyone CAN use an FM Translator to relay an AM station, but for the moment it has to be an existing translator. The FCC isn't authorizing new translators for this purpose (or at all, at the moment).

The restriction, to paraphrase a little, is that your translator's service contour cannot exceed any part of the AM station's service contour. And after some folks went hog-wild moving translators through dozens of minor change "hops", the FCC now has an unofficial restriction: you get one hop processed reasonably fast, two hops are subject to longer review, and anything more is automatically ignored for a long, long time.
 
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