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Post by David on Feb 25, 2022 18:40:54 GMT -6
While doing some impromptu AM DX'ing this afternoon, I noticed that KNIT is presently off the air. There's nothing on 1320 right now, not even an open carrier. According to the Your Network of Praise web site, KNIT has an FM translator on 94.5 in Draper, but I'm too far north to hear anything but KVFX on that frequency. Anyone in the Salt Lake City area hearing 1320 on the translator, or is it off the air as well?
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Terry
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Post by Terry on Feb 25, 2022 23:30:38 GMT -6
The 94.5 translator is on, loud and clear. 1320 is still off.
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Post by David on Feb 27, 2022 11:20:13 GMT -6
The 94.5 translator is on, loud and clear. 1320 is still off. 1320 is still off the air as of 10 AM Sunday, which is a no-no as far as the FCC is concerned. As far as I know, if the parent transmitter (1320) is going to be off the air for more than 24 hours, the FCC rules state that the FM translator must also be turned off. But FCC rules for broadcasters are routinely ignored these days, and as emasculated as the FCC is I doubt they'll do anything about it. KDYL has been silent for almost two years without an approved STA, and no one seems to have noticed . . . or care. |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 27, 2022 15:55:30 GMT -6
The FCC isn't going to do anything unless there is a complaint or there happens to be an inspection. That's how it works.
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Post by David on Feb 28, 2022 17:19:03 GMT -6
I sent a message to Your Network of Praise via Facebook to let them know 1320 is off the air, and politely suggested that they might want to have their on-call engineer check on the station. Frankly, I'll be surprised if anything gets done about it, but at least I can say I tried. 🙂
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Post by kenglish on Feb 28, 2022 18:43:01 GMT -6
They must have done something right after you notified them. I wonder if they just had to dial-in and reset something.
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Post by kenglish on Feb 28, 2022 23:48:42 GMT -6
Of course, KJJC-1230 is now running an un-modulated carrier.
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Post by David on Mar 1, 2022 1:03:45 GMT -6
Since 1230 & 1320 are diplexed from the same site, I wonder if the diplexing network is the source of the problem. Lately it seems like they're having trouble keeping both stations on the air at the same time.
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Post by David on Mar 1, 2022 9:19:02 GMT -6
1320 is back on the air as of 8 AM Tuesday, and 1230 is also. I'm really surprised YNOP was able to correct the problem so quickly, but maybe their engineer was able to fix the issue remotely. Moreover, the signal seems stronger and the audio sounds better to me than it did before, but that could be my 50 something ears playing tricks on me again. 😀
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Post by kenglish on Mar 1, 2022 12:35:43 GMT -6
I wonder how they feed the two stations. I doubt there is fiber optic, Comcast or AT&T right to their door. Maybe using wi-fi from nearby apartments? Could they be just losing connectivity at certain hours?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Mar 1, 2022 18:09:31 GMT -6
Why wouldn't there be a hard line of some kind to the transmitter building? It's not all that difficult to do. There are still microwave facilities licensed to each station, but those don't appear to have been transferred with the stations. If they were going with internet feeds and it isn't a hard line, I would guess cell. That's very doable.
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Post by kenglish on Mar 2, 2022 11:53:29 GMT -6
Why wouldn't there be a hard line of some kind to the transmitter building? It's not all that difficult to do. There are still microwave facilities licensed to each station, but those don't appear to have been transferred with the stations. If they were going with internet feeds and it isn't a hard line, I would guess cell. That's very doable. I would wonder if they ever had a phone line, or anything else besides power, to that site. It's always been sort of remote (I should look up the tax record for the nearby apartments, and see when they were built). Did they even have a land-line phone or remote control system? Of course, vandals burned that site a few years ago. I remember having to put up an OTA antenna on our hanger in the Navy, because Cable wanted $10K to trench a line from around the corner. We just watched rerun TV from Washington and Baltimore, instead. A cell-phone based system would work at the transmitter site, I guess. But, it would not be totally reliable. TV News folks seem to love their Distributed-Cellular stuff....backpacks with about ten cell transcievers inside them. Just don't try to go live from a small town breaking news scene at the same time as five other stations. |
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Post by David on Mar 2, 2022 13:04:26 GMT -6
Ken, was it actually vandals who set the fire at the KJJC/KNIT tower site that caused the tower collapse in 2015? Everything that I remember reading over the years, including the paperwork that Cumulus and Kona Coast Radio have filed with the FCC, has indicated that the tower collapse was due to a wildfire.
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Post by kenglish on Mar 2, 2022 17:44:28 GMT -6
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Post by David on Mar 2, 2022 19:55:46 GMT -6
Interesting. I wonder how Vic Michael (Kona Coast Radio) convinced Murray City to let him put up a new tower when they didn't allow Cumulus to rebuild the site after the fire.
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