[BC] Commercial Station Feeding A Commercial Translator Question

[Mark W. Croom]

Hey Paul,

Something to remember about translators is that there has to be a signal to
translate.

A possible first step would be to put up a good antenna with *some* height at
the proposed receive location and see whether there is signal. I'm guessing it
will be pretty minimal. It will likely only be made worse by the proximity of
a transmitting antenna. 

Even with favorable terrain I know I wouldn't want to put much money on that
scenario working well enough to keep anybody happy.

For a while I worked with a station that had a couple of translators in the
95+ mile range. It was a 100kw at about 650ft with decent receive sites, but
they just didn't work all that well, except in the winter they were pretty
reliable.

As Hal Munn once told me..."That only leaves spring, summer, and fall when it
doesn't work very well."

Mark
MN

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:06:20 -0400
Subject: [BC] Commercial Station Feeding A Commercial Translator Question

> This commercial station in the midwest plains has 60KW at around 300 
> feet in the 95 to 96mhz range. I want to know how it can, safely and 
> reliably, feed a commercial translator over 90 miles away with any 
> sort of useable signal?
> 
> I know radio-locator.com is for "entertainment" purposes only, but R-
> L doesnt even show the FRINGE signal of the originating station 
> coming anywhere remotely close to the translator's location.
> 
> I'm not schooled too well on translators and such, so forgive me if I've
> asked a silly/stupid question!