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WYHJ-LPFM Gulf Breeze-Pensacola

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Zach @ ABMP made me aware this new station was on the air.
Coastline Calvary defiantly picked a bad frequency with 107.9. The coverage area doesn't even encompass places where I can see the water tower they are broadcasting from. Even in Gulf Breeze this new LPFM is fighting for the channel with 100kw stations from Panama City and Biloxi.

Calvary's KAWZ 13 watt translator on 88.7 has a far better signal. Would the FCC allow Coastline Calvary to simulcast their LPFM on their translator? Is it possible to move to 107.7?

And I'm thinking this format is Christian Rock. Coastline Calvary is a big church with the local surfers, so rock makes sense.
 
They can get a translator and expand or enhance their coverage, WQXD-LP in Athens does this. Last I heard they were on three different translators in the surrounding communities. I'm not sure why 107.7 wasn't picked. Maybe they didn't want to be second adjacent to WRGV since it runs HD? But even with that it has to be better than 107.9, which is just a horrible frequency for a low power service on the beach. If I'm anywhere within a few miles of the beach near Gulf Shores, for example, I never NOT hear anything there. Either Panama City or Gulfport. Sometimes both fighting it out.
 
Using 107.9, Calvary's coverage area is one zip code, 32563. I didn't know the station was on the air because 107.9 is just a jumbled mess in Pensacola... less than 10 miles from the water tower antenna.
 
Man, this signal is worse than I thought. I was approximately 1 mile west for the tower this morning and couldn't pick up a solid signal. Tropo was rough, but no coverage 1 mile out?
 
A minor frequency change of -10.8 puts WYHJ on 97.1. Could they make this move and bump the Ticket's translator to another freq?
 
Minor freq. Change of 200 kHz is allowed unless bumped by a primary. In that case a channel must be available.
 
Groove1670 said:
Minor freq. Change of 200 kHz is allowed unless bumped by a primary. In that case a channel must be available.
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Actually, LPFM stations are not restricted to adjacent channels and I.F. frequencies. In reducing interference, they may move to ANY available channel.

From 73.870(a):
Minor changes of LPFM stations may include:
(1) Changes in frequency to adjacent or IF frequencies or, upon a technical showing of reduced interference, to any frequency;
 
Do 100 watt @ 100 ft LPFMs still have to protect 3rd adjacents while 250 watt @ 1000 ft translators only have to protect 2nd adjacents?
That's the only reason I can see that Coastline Calvary would choose 107.9 for this station.
 
seedless said:
Do 100 watt @ 100 ft LPFMs still have to protect 3rd adjacents while 250 watt @ 1000 ft translators only have to protect 2nd adjacents?
That's the only reason I can see that Coastline Calvary would choose 107.9 for this station.
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Translators have to protect 3rd adjacents and I.F.s. LPFM stations do not protect either.
 
A primary would probably need to file a interference complaint against a LPFM to warrant a move.
 
So the LPFM can't apply to move because their frequency sucks? WPFM or WZKH would have to complain for WYHJ-LPFM to move?

I think all the good frequencies have already been tied up by translators.
92.3 or 94.5 would fit, but strong signals from Panama City would wipe out WYHJ just like 107.9. 102.3 would be the best left in Pensacola, but maybe not so close to Fort Walton. 107.7 would still be better if it's far enough away from the Kiss 107.3 tower.
 
seedless said:
So the LPFM can't apply to move because their frequency sucks? WPFM or WZKH would have to complain for WYHJ-LPFM to move?

I think all the good frequencies have already been tied up by translators.
92.3 or 94.5 would fit, but strong signals from Panama City would wipe out WYHJ just like 107.9. 102.3 would be the best left in Pensacola, but maybe not so close to Fort Walton. 107.7 would still be better if it's far enough away from the Kiss 107.3 tower.
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Reduced interference can be to either a protected station or to the LPFM. The rule does not specify what constitutes reduced interference, merely that some believable technical showing of reduced interference must accompany a non-adjacent channel move request. Most of the ones that I have seen specify the new channel to reduce interference to the LPFM. I have seen some requests granted on a simple statement by the applicant that the new channel experiences less interference.
 
That has happened twice with WQJJ in Jasper, Alabama. They started out on 97.7, had to move to 100.1 due to interference from a co-channel in Winfield. Then when Summit Media fired up their translator on that frequency in Birmingham, they were forced to move again to 101.9. I believe in all cases they initiated the frequency change.
 
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