There's a new crackly mess of (K-Love) RF crap originating from Buck Mountain at 107.3! This crackly mess is spilling out over 107.5, illegally blocking out KVMX. Let's get this malfunctioning translator pulled off the air!

Tell the FCC!!

Well you could contact K-love and let them know what's happening and have their engineers take a listen. Possibly a little tweak will do the job.

No need to over react.

Where is Buck Mountain? It must be somewhere that doesn't also interfere with K-Love on 107.1. If it creates some interference now, it will probably have to be moved when KVMX increases power because it will no longer be legal.

I'm guessing it's K297AJ, licensed to Coburg:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=156460
Doing an FCC search on 107.3 for the entire state comes up with only that translator and KACW, North Bend.

Yes, this RF mess appears to be K-Love's K297AJ, Coburg. The signal is so unclear, it's unlistenable. The mess also spills over 107.1 KLVU, just north of Eugene.

If that's where it is, I don't really see the problem with KVMX although K-Love seems a little close. KBPS coexists with KLCC as does KNRK with KMGE and these stations run a lot more power.

can you say NERD.

Radio nerds don't let stations get away with this kind of crap.

Radio nerds must not have lives, loves, or occupations either.
If I had the time to find out whether some station was bleeding over or whatever, I think I could use that time to make some money, make some love or at least make par.
Have a good day, I mean really.

FCC rules state that if a translator is blocking the signal of a radio station, the translator has to be removed. A couple years back, a translator at 105.5 was installed in Salem and it blocked Bob FM out of Eugene. A letter complaining to the FCC caused the translator to be removed.

In fact it only has to be only one person that can shut it down. That person in Salem happened to be a lawyer that could no longer listen to Bob FM. Is one person too much power in shutting down a translator that was ok'd by the FCC? Kind of a head scratcher...

Well you know....if you guys in Radio don't want to sound like "DONALD DUCK ON HELIUM" over the air.....then you might consider being nicer to these technical radio professionals! The world will go around by itself but that little blue globe in your interent explorer sure wont without Techie's! They can also destroy every file on your PC's simply by leaving you alone with it for a long weekend!

Has anyone else contacted the FCC about this nasty interference?

> If I had the time to find out whether some station
> was bleeding over or whatever, I think I could use > that time to make some money, make some love or at > least make par.

Well, you took some of your own time to write not one, but two posts on this subject.

Author: Radioxpert
Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 11:10 pm


Has anyone else contacted the FCC about this nasty interference?



Why don't you? Or are you waiting for someone to hold your trembling hands as you dial the phone?

You noticed it, you call.

If you can't do that, then STFU about it.

Alfredo,
He's post FOUR times in a pitiful effort to get someone else to report what he himself noticed.

Sheesh!

Outsider:

It's rather pitiful, you're getting worked up about someone else getting worked up. The FCC needs more than one complaint to take the time to investigate.

Blocking 107.5 is a good thing...

It's not good for those who wish to listen in the southern part of the valley.

It might not currently run a format you personally like, but maybe later the station changes to something you do want to listen to, but can't because of said translators.
I understand these folks want to 'get the Word of God out to all people by all means necessary,' but it doesn't have to be excessive like this.
For one, they could buy advertising on stations, encouraging people to attend church - just my irrelevant idea.

Translator operators know going in that they can be turned off if they interfere with a licensed station. They are taking the chance that nobody will care enough to WRITE A LETTER TO THE FCC.

Yes it must be a written letter to the FCC. it also helps to write a letter to the owner and public file of the station being interfered with.

And you do not have to be trying to listen inside any particular contour.

any translator or "satellitor" causing any interference to ANY licensed broadcaster anywhere is subject to being taken off the air.

Notalent is 100% correct!

Notalent is 100% correct!
Uh, I think what he (and everyone else is getting at) is you should write the letter. Most of us on this board don't live anywhere near the translator in question.

or care I might add

Author: Oldbroadcaster
Friday, June 29, 2007 - 6:00 pm


Outsider:

It's rather pitiful, you're getting worked up about someone else getting worked up. The FCC needs more than one complaint to take the time to investigate....

No, I disagree. What's pitiful is someone, in this case Radioxpert, posting about a subject on here and expecting someone else to do something about it.

If he's so worked up about a translator interferring with another station, then he's the one who should do something about it. That means, HE is the one who needs to call the F.C.C.

Since he's the one I'M worked up about, then this is the appropriate forum to vent that frustration.

You do know that Radioxpert is Dan packard, right Outsider????

No, Dan is not Radioxpert. When Radioxpert began on pdxradio, he was asking a lot of questions and starting threads as often as DJfrresh. Then he settled down after his questions were answered. I remember a lot of those questions were things we had discussed earlier. Dan would've read those posts and wouldn't ask questions already answered.

NO, he needs to WRITE the FCC, a call will not be sufficient. It must be a written complaint.

The old hands here know that being an experienced, diligent moderator, Dan feels it best to post infrequently, and posts under his own name.

I can't help observing, however, that as sysop, he could assume any persona here at any time, on whim or at will, for good ... or for evil.

Bwahahahaaha.

Craig I disagree with you on that. Im 95% sure Dan is Radioxpert.
Im sure he has feelings, irritations about certain stations that he would not want to use his real name for. Thats whats so great about this site, you can express your true feelings about certain stations.

Beano: How do you know Dan & Radioxpert have the same opinions "feelings, irritations"?

Maybe Dan & Dodger do?

I'm 100 per cent sure Dodger is NOT Dan.

I thought I remember Radioxpert mentioning quite a long time ago that he was a Eugene programmer/DJ that used to have a Saturday night show on 92V, and more recently has/had something to do with a station in Oakridge.

No, I'm not Dan, either! Let's stop the witch hunt and get back to discussing how to write letters to the FCC, and who should be writing them!

I'm not Dan but I am Craig. Craig is Dan, no wait!

Dan Packard posts as "Dan Packard" as I recall.

So your saying he ONLY has one Screen name Dberichon???? I THINK NOT!

The poster named "62kgw" isn't the true Super 62 KGW at all.

"I am he as you are me as..."

What ever happened to "Lawnchair"?

Yeah, I was wondering that as well! We go waaay back...

I'm no expert. That's for sure. I wish I had more time to post - but barely enough time to read. You can usually tell posters that masquerade under a different name by spotting similar phrases or sentence structure. Each post used to show its ip address, which gave some insight. Now they show just on internal logs.

To get back to the topic of this thread. It's very unfortunate how translators have proliferated on the FM dial, mostly from one or two large "ministry" organizations. Here's what Bruce Elving, publsiher of the superb FM radio Atlas, said a few years ago: http://www.rwonline.com/reference-room/special-report/04_rwf_translators_3.shtml.
See how to lodge interference complaints at fcc.gov.

The FCC does allow a translator to block out the signal of a station.

KRKT's translator, 963.3 blocks out KZEL (961.1) in Salem.

i think this station is now movin.