How is it that a station can have so many translators from Buffalo to Syracuse with only 1 main transmitter in Rochester? Seems like they are breaking the rules and adding to the noise on the FM band. If you go to WZXV.org you can see how many they have. My beef is they are using low power translators out of market. When I am south of Buffalo their 93.3fm translator interferes with the station WWSE out of Jamestown.
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WZXV breaking translator rules?
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Good rule of thumb: if it is licensed, it's not breaking the rules.
The FCC has no rules on how many translators you can lease. If you wanted to lease every station on the dial you could (if that was possible).
I know of one FM that has 5 translators in a major city they don't reach...leasing all 5. Take a look at the translator situation in Houston. One church owns a bunch.
The FCC has no rules on how many translators you can lease. If you wanted to lease every station on the dial you could (if that was possible).
I know of one FM that has 5 translators in a major city they don't reach...leasing all 5. Take a look at the translator situation in Houston. One church owns a bunch.
Non-commercial stations have different translator rules than commercial ones.
Scott Fybush, an expert in both translators and broadcasting in that area, may be able to add some additional remarks.
EMF, the K-Love folks, have several hundred translators nation-wide. They are allowed to provide programming by satellite from a remote studio.
The Calvary Chapel of the Finger Lakes folks are non-commercial. They are totally legal in expanding their reach with translators.
My understanding is that stations in the non-comm band can be fed by satellite but in the commercial band, they have to be fed by a full-power station. K-Love at one time had quite the daisy chain going in Springfield, Ohio (feeding a 96.7 translator off another translator on 107.3 which receieved the class A 96.9 signal for example).
Oddly enough, I was actually at WZXV yesterday.
Everything they're doing is by the book. There's no rule restricting the number of translators a station can operate. Non-fill-in translators in the commercial band have to be fed off the air, either directly from the primary station or from another translator along a daisy chain. So, for instance, 102.9 Batavia hears 99.7 directly. 94.9 Corfu hears 102.9 Batavia, and 93.3 Buffalo hears 94.9 Corfu.
The engineer who put it all together is one of the best in the business.
Everything they're doing is by the book. There's no rule restricting the number of translators a station can operate. Non-fill-in translators in the commercial band have to be fed off the air, either directly from the primary station or from another translator along a daisy chain. So, for instance, 102.9 Batavia hears 99.7 directly. 94.9 Corfu hears 102.9 Batavia, and 93.3 Buffalo hears 94.9 Corfu.
The engineer who put it all together is one of the best in the business.
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