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Please check my friend YouTube video telling about it http://youtu.be/WluuSNxxQYg
The FCC has made it 100% clear for many years that the VHF TV spectrum will not be changed. Period. Get over it.
In my opinion if these stations you mentioned wanted to cover more than their area they would buy some translators of their own in other markets.
Commercial FM stations can't use translators to extend their coverage. Only non-commercial ones can.
??? There are quite a few translators of commercial FMs in northern Arizona alone, and I don't think all are used just to fill holes in their coverage areas.
Is it possible for the station owner to rent a translator to extend their area?
??? There are quite a few translators of commercial FMs in northern Arizona alone, and I don't think all are used just to fill holes in their coverage areas.
Please check my friend YouTube video telling about it http://youtu.be/WluuSNxxQYg
Ah yes, there are several translators in Northern Arizona that extend the coverage area of the main station to a city outside the 60 dBu contour. Yes they are "independently owned" but a few of them may collect money indirectly from the primary station. I know of one where the translator is owned by a consultant of the station. Sure it is an "independent owner" but fails the arm's length test.
Please check my friend YouTube video telling about it http://youtu.be/WluuSNxxQYg
Why would we want to do that? It isn't going to happen. Ever.
Please check my friend YouTube video telling about it http://youtu.be/WluuSNxxQYg
I think it's laughable that one "friend" making a YouTube video thinks he's going to somehow change a FCC policy which has been restated several times over the years.
JLP, tell your friend he's trying to push a rope uphill.
The FCC has made it 100% clear for many years that the VHF TV spectrum will not be changed. Period. Get over it.
"Not only is the FCC determined to send AT$C back to VHF but if AT$C 3.0 is approved the band will actually be usable once again for television broadcasting. Tests using OFDM, the transmitting standard behind 3.0, on channel 7 have been very positive. We know it works on high VHF. Plus, the FCC has proposed allowing low-power TV stations on ch. 6 to multiplex an analog FM channel (87.7) along with AT$C programming. So expect to see a lot of LPTV stations apply for this channel when the commission opens a channel displacement window for low power stations, which is supposed to happen late in 2016."
"Another possibility is looking at the shortwave bands for a new domestic commercial radio service using DRM. Tests by the DRM Consortium have shown that a 300 watt signal on the 26MHz band using a dipole antenna not much larger than a typical FM antenna and DRM can cover a city very well. Sure, it all requires new radios but so does expanding the FM band using ch. 5 & 6."
1) As I recall, the always forward-thinking FCC decreed long ago that shortwave radio can't be used to deliberately target domestic audiences even though there were (still are) services that very subtlely do just that.
Another possibility is looking at the SW and HF bands for a new domestic commercial radio service using DRM. Tests by the DRM Consortium have shown that a 300 watt signal on the 26MHz band using a dipole antenna not much larger than a typical FM antenna and DRM can cover a city very well. Sure, it all requires new radios but so does expanding the FM band using ch. 5 & 6.