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FCC: maybe COL for translator does matter

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joebtsflk1

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W292DH Uniontown PA has a CP to move some 35 miles north to the middle of the Pittsburgh metro. Translator coverage of the city of license never mattered before, but it appears it does now, as the translator was denied an STA to go silent: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=60191

Personally, when translators are hopped out of range of the original COL,I think the translator should change to a COL as close to the new translator site as possible. Or, maybe just ditch the whole notion of COL for translators.
 
I think it's much simpler than that. Even translators are licensed to coordinates, height and antenna parameters. Moving a translator outside a couple meters is verboten.
 
In Connecticut WMRQ HD2 has a translator licensed for 99.5 FM in Clinton which is down by the shoreline, but their antenna is off of Lakewood Road up in Waterbury. Before it was on Meriden Mountain. I don't know how to calculate air miles, but Lakewood Road in Waterbury is nearly 43 miles from Clinton according to driving directions on Google.
 
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