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KAFY Bakersfield "La Nueva 1100"

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RF101

I am posting this more-generic subject header but the real focus is the underlying KAFY translator network.

The "La Nueva Broadcasting, Inc." religious group forms the programming force behind KAFY's on-air content. (The actual KAFY transmission plant is owned by "AOTS Holdings, Inc.", a Nevada-incorporated entity with an Encino mailing address.)

At the top of each hour the faithful listeners will hear (in English) the KAFY main station ID followed by IDs for up to four translators:


1. K262BP 100.3 Conner, California
2 K271DD 102.1 Bakersfield, Califronia
3. K256BS 99.1 Palmdale-Lancaster, California
4. K300CW 107.9 Indio, California

The license holders are (1,2) Manantial de Vida Eterna, Inc. (3) La Nueva Broadcasting (the programmer) (4) Ondas de Vida Network. Depending on the ID audio cut loaded at the ToH, K256BS may be absent in the translator ID callout.

What's wrong with this picture? Translators #3 and #4 are taking programming from an AM station far beyond the permissable contour. KAFY's contour extends out to 78km yet K256BS is 120 kilometers distant. Even worse, the Indio repeater is some 305 kilometers away.

As these distances the repeaters are essentially doing "local origination." Apparently no one at the FCC seems to care.

Even the renowned Mexican-broadcast analyst Raymie Humbert noted the Indio situation in his "En Frecuencia" blog posting for 17 Feb 2021 titled "Pirates on the Waves of Life".

If you want to hear for yourself KAFY "La Nueva" does stream audio at their website: www.lanuevam.com
 
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RF101 said:
I am posting this more-generic subject header but the real focus is the underlying KAFY translator network.

The "La Nueva Broadcasting, Inc." religious group forms the programming force behind KAFY's on-air content. (The actual KAFY transmission plant is owned by "AOTS Holdings, Inc.", a Nevada-incorporated entity with an Encino mailing address.)

At the top of each hour the faithful listeners will hear (in English) the KAFY main station ID followed by IDs for up to four translators:


1. K262BP 100.3 Conner, California
2 K271DD 102.1 Bakersfield, Califronia
3. K256BS 99.1 Palmdale-Lancaster, California
4. K300CW 107.9 Indio, California

The license holders are (1,2) Manantial de Vida Eterna, Inc. (3) La Nueva Broadcasting (the programmer) (4) Ondas de Vida Network. Depending on the ID audio cut loaded at the ToH, K256BS may be absent in the translator ID callout.

What's wrong with this picture? Translators #3 and #4 are taking programming from an AM station far beyond the permissable contour. KAFY's contour extends out to 78km yet K256BS is 120 kilometers distant. Even worse, the Indio repeater is some 305 kilometers away.

As these distances the repeaters are essentially doing "local origination." Apparently no one at the FCC seems to care.

Even the renowned Mexican-broadcast analyst Raymie Humbert noted the Indio situation in his "En Frecuencia" blog posting for 17 Feb 2021 titled "Pirates on the Waves of Life".

If you want to hear for yourself KAFY "La Nueva" does stream audio at their website: www.lanuevam.com
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They might be considered a "Non-Comm", which could allow them to have any number of translators across the country. (Although this usually applies to a parent station in the 88 to 92 non-comm part of the FM band.)
 
La Nueva group may be non-comm but it's AOTS Holdings that would be the measuring stick... besides I hear lots of "call-to-action", "comparison-to-competition", etc ads...
 
So is KLRD in HD? Nope. (No digital authorization paperwork on file.)

One of the downsides of HD is the high duty cycle for power draw. The KLRD site is solar-powered where every volt-amp counts.. They run just 600 watts ERP but at 1045 meters HAAT.

EMF tends to deploy HD to its core markets, leaving analog for the remainders.
 
See what happens when an amateur (me) chimes in? Trying to figure out how else KLRD (an Air1 station) could feed K300CW...
 
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