Hi. New to the forum, but an avid Denver area FM listener (with nice tuners and outside antennas at home - not just the car like most). I like to push the distance listening also and can cleanly get several Colorado Springs and Ft. Collins stations. I prefer the high quality sound of FM compared to the horrible compression of on-line and satellite. And I like a variety of formats.
Anyway, this proliferation of FM translators is making me nervous. Recently KGNU turned up one on 99.1 completely wiping out KUAD from Ft. Collins, which I had perfectly clear. I read that there was another application filing window for AM stations to apply for new FM translators last month and I also looked on the FCC site that shows "open" frequencies and I would not call them open at all. One of them is 105.5 (The Colorado Sound), which comes in great all over Denver in a car. It seems like the way the FCC does it is they have way more concern for 2nd adjacent channels over co-channel. I don't get it.
I was wondering if anyone has any insight into more that might be coming to Denver with this AM revival junk (sorry, my opinion). And can a person do anything to "protest" an application if they know it will kill their listening to another station? Not that the FCC would probably care what one person thinks, but it seems like the frequency planning is really lacking any common sense. A really good example is 104.7 having two Denver area LP stations on it. What the heck?
Does a person just have to file a consumer interference complaint with the FCC after a translator comes on air? I thought about it with KGNU, but I'm guessing it would just enter a black hole.
Thanks.
Anyway, this proliferation of FM translators is making me nervous. Recently KGNU turned up one on 99.1 completely wiping out KUAD from Ft. Collins, which I had perfectly clear. I read that there was another application filing window for AM stations to apply for new FM translators last month and I also looked on the FCC site that shows "open" frequencies and I would not call them open at all. One of them is 105.5 (The Colorado Sound), which comes in great all over Denver in a car. It seems like the way the FCC does it is they have way more concern for 2nd adjacent channels over co-channel. I don't get it.
I was wondering if anyone has any insight into more that might be coming to Denver with this AM revival junk (sorry, my opinion). And can a person do anything to "protest" an application if they know it will kill their listening to another station? Not that the FCC would probably care what one person thinks, but it seems like the frequency planning is really lacking any common sense. A really good example is 104.7 having two Denver area LP stations on it. What the heck?
Does a person just have to file a consumer interference complaint with the FCC after a translator comes on air? I thought about it with KGNU, but I'm guessing it would just enter a black hole.
Thanks.