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Withers Translator in Mount Carmel shut down by FAA

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ChiefEngineer

Air traffic Control in Livingston TN is getting interference at 35,000 feet. FAA visited Mount Carmel and found the translator relaying an AM station.

This translator had been off air over a year but was then moved to the WYNG tower. Seems it was mixing WYNG and the 99.1 signal and creating a spur in the aircraft band. Still off at this point.
 
Is this something they can fix, or will they have to keep it off or move it?

Has this type of interference happened before? What causes this to happen?
 
In Shreveport, LA Cumulus Broadcasting had spent over $1,000,000 purchasing KVMA, a 100,000 watt station at 107.9 FM and moving it in from Magnolia, Arkansas to serve the much bigger market. They stuck the station on the air, it immediately went to #1 in the first Arbitron book, and the new move-in began creating problems with Barksdale AFB. The new station was gone the next day. They don't play.....
 
A minor translator can be fixed.. 99.1 was repeating 1360 in Mount Carmel and had some poor equipment and the sound was not to normal FM specs.. Low power and gets out about 7 miles in poor eq'd mono. Could be fixed and tested for cheap...
 
Ironically, the FAA also shut down WYER in Carmi for aircraft interference and it is still off-the-air. It's a non-comm.
 
ChiefEngineer said:
Air traffic Control in Livingston TN is getting interference at 35,000 feet. FAA visited Mount Carmel and found the translator relaying an AM station.

This translator had been off air over a year but was then moved to the WYNG tower. Seems it was mixing WYNG and the 99.1 signal and creating a spur in the aircraft band. Still off at this point.
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The situation is flipped now; 99.1 (out of nearby Princeton, IN) and WYNG are running the same signal or programming. WYNG was recently purchased by the K-LOVE people. No date for the format change has been announced.
 
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