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Siga stations on the move...

N5TZQ

N5TZQ

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Guess nobody noticed. KLVL's 95.3 translator files to hop to the Willowbrook area on 94.9. KGBC's translator files to hop to Baytown on 101.7.
 
Where do you get this information from? What are the call signs for both this translators?
 
stan said:
The 101.7 move will probably not be allowed.
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"Probably not?" LOL

The engineers and consultants get paid a lot of money to determine where a translator will fit. Take 100.7 in Sugarland, or 97.5 in Tomball. These "probably" shouldn't have been allowed, but the fact remains that the computer models show they fit. That's all the FCC looks at when deciding whether or not to allow a translator. If it causes interference, then the lawyers get to make money duking it out.
 
N5TZQ said:
These "probably" shouldn't have been allowed, but the fact remains that the computer models show they fit. That's all the FCC looks at when deciding whether or not to allow a translator. If it causes interference, then the lawyers get to make money duking it out.
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The problem with computer models is that they assume "perfect" propagation of radio signals (with a predicable falloff of signal strength) with no regard to variations in terrain, weather conditions, buildings, etc. and that a signal will maintain constant strength at a given distance. They also seem to think that a radio signal suddenly vanishes once it falls below 60dbu, along with too much faith in the capture effect on FM receivers--that a 60dbu signal will have no trouble with a 50dbu signal on the same frequency.

You can blather about "not supposed to be there" but the real world is much different. And the real world beats theory, EVERY TIME.

Last words of the captain of the Titanic: "That iceberg is not supposed to be there!!!"
 
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