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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 8, 2018 8:40:32 GMT -6
Air 1's KUAO has applied to change their community of license to Tremonton and move their transmitter up near the Idaho border.
I do have to wonder why they're doing this. Could KNKL be flipping to Air1 instead of duplicating K-Love from KKLV? Could KCPW-FM take advantage of this and increase power to the north like I'd been suggesting?
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Post by David on Apr 8, 2018 13:32:53 GMT -6
Do you suppose KUAO's proposed move has anything to do with the station causing interference to KYFO 95.5? As I recall, the antenna and transmitter for KUAO is co-located at the KYFO site in Little Mountain; and transmitting facilities for more than one station at the same tower site sometimes interfere with each other.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 9, 2018 0:58:17 GMT -6
Short answer, no.
Longer answer: KUAO is currently on a tower about 4/10 of a mile north of the KYFO tower. Second, they just built the KUAO site so they would have been able to take any interference into consideration when building it. Third, the issues you describe were solved decades ago. If they hadn't been, Farnsworth would be in big trouble. Fourth, there's a huge increase in coverage area and class and the new coverage area doesn't even include Ogden at all.
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Post by David on Apr 24, 2018 13:11:50 GMT -6
KUAO has been off the air for at least three days now. Not sure if the station being offline has anything to do with their proposed COL move to Tremonton or not. There's no recent postings in KUAO's FCC file, but they're not required to notify the FCC unless the station will be off the air for more than 10 days.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 24, 2018 18:46:37 GMT -6
Not related.
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Post by David on Apr 24, 2018 21:59:25 GMT -6
So they don't have to shut down the transmitter to move it 90 miles north? Ooooook . . . .
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 25, 2018 1:22:32 GMT -6
OK, let's take a look at this.
The KUAO signal has a history of going off the air. There are probably several reasons for this, not the least of which is that it's almost certainly being maintained by a contract engineer who would have to make the trek way out to the site to first evaluate what the problem is and then make arrangements to have it fixed.
Even forgetting that, the application to move the station north is just that, an application. It hasn't even been approved yet. Construction can't start on the new site until after they have a construction permit which is issued when the application is approved. Once all that happens, then they'd have to shut down the current signal to broadcast the new one. Also, the move is only about 45 miles, not 90.
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Post by David on Apr 25, 2018 19:44:18 GMT -6
Thanks for the explanation: it makes the change easier to understand than trying to figure things out by looking at the FCC site. I've never noticed KUAO being off air until recently, and I scan the bands about once a week. The 90 mile figure I used is what happens when I use Google to calculate distances.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 27, 2018 17:50:22 GMT -6
FWIW, KUAO is back on air.
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