[grc] FM translator displacing listeners

[Martin J. Huotari]

What is the credibility of the 60dBu contour?  That will be the question.

> On Jan 27, 2017, at 4:45 PM, UnderCurrents Radio via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
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> Maybe you can buy him a streaming radio.
> 
> GM
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> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:45 PM Michelle Bradley via grc <
> grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
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>> The first question that I have here is whether the complaining listener
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>> is inside your translator's 60 dBu contour.
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>> Under the rules and the FCC's interpretation of the policy, a translator
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>> can not cause any "actual interference" to the direct reception by the
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>> public of any [...] broadcast station. "Interference will be considered
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>> to occur whenever reception of a regularly used signal is impaired by
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>> the signals radiated by the FM translator [...] regardless of the
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>> quality of such reception, the strength of the signal so used, or the
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>> channel for which the protected signal is transmitted.  (§74.1203(a)(3)).
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>> What I have seen is that the Commission will be more likely to take the
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>> complaint seriously if the complainer is within your translator's 60 dBu
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>> service contour.
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>> If you want to private e-mail me the information about your LPFM, your
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>> translator and the EMF Air-1 station, I can look a little further.
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>> =m
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>> On 1/27/2017 5:30 PM, Danny via grc wrote:
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>>> Our LPFM is not on the air yet, but our 55 watt FM translator is as of 2
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>>> weeks ago and just got licensed last Wednesday.  For now, we're
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>>> rebroadcasting the local NPR station with express written permission.
>> Today,
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>>> we got our first complaint and he made a point he's complained to the FCC
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>>> and the station he can no longer receive, which is a 2100 watt signal of
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>>> contemporary Christian station Air 1 in a neighboring market, well
>> outside
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>>> their 60dBu contour.
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>>> The FCC website says: "Interference caused.  A translator or booster may
>> not
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>>> cause predicted or actual interference.  If any actual interference is
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>>> created, the Commission requires the permittee or licensee to resolve all
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>>> interference complaints by appropriate means.  If the interference
>> cannot be
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>>> resolved, the Commission will require the FM translator or booster
>> station
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>>> to discontinue operations.  See 47 CFR Section 74.1203.  A translator
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>>> construction permit application will not be granted if an objecting party
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>>> provides convincing evidence that the proposed translator station would
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>>> likely interfere with off the air reception of a full service FM station,
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>>> even if there is no predicted prohibited contour overlap."
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>>> 
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>>> But what does this mean in real world experience? What are we obligated
>> to
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>>> do for listeners like this that no longer hear their favorite station
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>>> outside its protected contour because of our new FM translator?
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>>> Thanks!
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>>> 
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>>> Danny
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>>> WSPJ-LP
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>>> W228CS
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