I checked the FCC database today and the closest result of the 250 FM translator move window has a construction permit (CP). It is on 106.9, which is a channel that used to work for part 15 FM at my house. What is funny is W282BT is going to have limited range to the west due to WWEG and in the morning limited range to the north due to WKVP (around sun rise WKVP seems to come in well north of Baltimore.)
I am surprised the FCC issued a CP so fast, but no one else had applied for 106.9 in Baltimore.
Our CP At the class D was granted 10 days after being applied for.
In Fact, We expect our FM Translator to be on by April. (If not March)
Edit: On A Side Note, Unless W282BT will be running in mono that signal is going to be nearly useless in most of Baltimore.
AM is no longer vital so the obvious fix is to start a small FM, which will revitalize the AM, just like part 15 makes property values rise.
Here on the shores of the Mississippi a Gospel Basketball Club had an LPFM at 99.5 with a great signal from the top of a 19-story building, but on a recent sunday I noticed their transmitter on all day with no audio, and it stayed like that well into the week. Now it's off the air.
Which brings up a question, what happens to vacated LPFMs? Even though the filing window is closed on LPFM, can an exception be made for an abandoned station?
Or, possibly 99.5 will now become available for an AM translator.
Could be why some stations are so much against the LPFM's because they want to put up a translator and can't because of the LPFM. I don't know but that makes goo sense as to why they are so dead set against them.
The NAB is the reason for the slow roll-out of LPFM. They created actually created a CD with phony data showing how a 100 watt LPFM would interfere with your favorite NPR station and distributed to members of congress.
I'd like to get ahold of that Sony CD or at least the files. Just for study purposes. What is the name of it all even look up that name on kickass torrents.
Can't find the audio but here is a story about it: http://diymedia.net/calling-the-bluff/2632
This is why I am not a fan of the NAB: http://lobby.la.psu.edu/025_Low_Power_FM_Radio/Organizational_Statements/Media_Access_Project/MAP_two_page_rebuttal_of_anti_lpfm_attacks.htm
Thanks. This is the file. ANYONE who has ever listened to a FM signal has NEVER heard 2 stations at the same time. At least I haven't. Please see "Capture Effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_effect
So the NAB which suposedly has engineers in its ranks instituted this fraud on unwitting members of Congress. So much for integrity.
My 82 Delco will mix weak FM signals. Weird as hell as I had never heard that either.
Having listened to the Anti-LPFM CD I believe it is a deliberate fraud produced in an audio mixing studio.
If it were true, I would be swamped right now in what their prostitute engineer called "crosstalk," because I am in the strong field of five major area towers that hold the bulk of all FM and TV for the region, full power and low power.
Using seven different radios I cannot achieve the kind of crosstalk being claimed on the CD.
Such crosstalk is possible placing two part 15 transmitters physically close to each other, in which case their antennas receive and re-modulate some signal from the other transmitter, but this is prevented at the professional level by filtering circuits that are engineered routinely to prevent inter-modulation between transmitters.
The NAB should be hauled off to jail for that fake attempt to de-rail LPFM.
Out of all of those examples of interference I did not hear any kissing which normally would occur when one radio station is interfering with the other one. What they are demonstrating is a phenomenon called Inter Mod. Now that sounds almost like that but there is some differences.