[grc] Fwd: Re: AM translators to have any effect on LPFM?

[Michelle Bradley]

Reposted for everyone else...


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Subject: 	Re: [grc] AM translators to have any effect on LPFM?
Date: 	Tue, 9 Feb 2016 19:06:11 -0500
From: 	Michelle Bradley <mae at recnet.com>
To: 	Danny <danny at wspj.org>



If you are not co-, first- or second- adjacent to the translator, you
don't have much to worry about.

Regardless of what the station the translator is rebroadcasting, they
still have to protect LPFM stations.
http://faq.recnet.net/index.php?action=artikel&cat=2&id=102&artlang=en&highlight=translator

For those LPFMs that are on a co- or first-adjacent channel, even though
that translator's interference contour may be hugging you just outside
your service contour, there's still a chance for interference or
degraded service, especially outside your service contour.  Contours can
be very deceiving and in my opinion, very useless for stations with
smaller service contours like LPFMs and translators.

=m



On 2/9/2016 6:45 PM, Danny via grc wrote:
> We need to do a minor site change for our soon-to-be LPFM and our local AM
> broadcasters are already jumping into the AM translator feeding frenzy.
>
>
>
> I know these AM translators have special rules, like the 250 mile relocation
> option. One local radio mogul we've had a lot of problems with for years
> just bought a non-comm translator 55 miles away and plopped it on our
> doorstep. He'll be minor changing it to 250 watts once a local bogus LPFM CP
> expires in April and I'm just wondering, do we have anything to worry about?
> Fortunately, it's not on an adjacent frequency to us and IF rules don't
> apply to translators and LPFM, correct?  And does he still have to work
> around our LPFM even though it's going to be one of these special AM
> translators?
>
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>
> Thanks!
>
> Danny
>
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