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Dead carrier on 92-9 in Dallas

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I'm hearing a dead carrier on 92.9 in Dallas. It's been there since at least yesterday, but since I hardly ever visit north TX I haven't heard it before then. Does anyone know what station this is?

Also 95.5 is a dead carrier, yesterday it was playing classic hits music so not sure what happened.
 
Unknowable said:
I'm hearing a dead carrier on 92.9 in Dallas. It's been there since at least yesterday, but since I hardly ever visit north TX I haven't heard it before then. Does anyone know what station this is?

Also 95.5 is a dead carrier, yesterday it was playing classic hits music so not sure what happened.
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Those are both translators for KSKY/660, and for whatever the reason the feed is down. They technically operate as "emergency FM repeaters" (and thus have no call letters and are not in the CDBS database) in relief of nighttime signal interference from Mexican stations, and have been doing so for almost eight years now. 92.9 is in east Dallas, 95.5 is in Arlington, and there is a 99.9 in northeast Fort Worth.

The classic hits on 95.5 was likely KBGO/Waco coming in over the KSKY translator.
 
Huff said:
Those are both translators for KSKY/660, and for whatever the reason the feed is down. They technically operate as "emergency FM repeaters" (and thus have no call letters and are not in the CDBS database) in relief of nighttime signal interference from Mexican stations, and have been doing so for almost eight years now. 92.9 is in east Dallas, 95.5 is in Arlington, and there is a 99.9 in northeast Fort Worth.

The classic hits on 95.5 was likely KBGO/Waco coming in over the KSKY translator.
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I wonder what the LPFM stations in the area on 92.9 and 95.5 will do to these FM translators?
 
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Frequency1 said:
I wonder what the LPFM stations in the area on 92.9 and 95.5 will do to these FM translators?
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Not as much as you'd think, translators enjoy a max power of 250 watts at any height, LPFM is limited to a max of 100 watts at a limited height. More often than not the FM translator will choke out an LPFM.
 
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