[BC] AM on translator becomes new FM station...

[Douglas Broadcasting]

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember discussion early on about translators having to rebroadcast the AM signal, vs feeding the signal directly from an STL or other source. I think the decision was to not penalize the translators by forcing them to rebroadcast AM-quality audio. My translator, in-house, takes audio directly off the automation... same source that feeds the copper pair to the AM xmtr.
 
Dennis Switzer
KKTY-AM / K227BU
Douglas Broadcasting
Douglas, WY
 

 
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:
>Independent audio feeding of the FM translator is permitted. How do you
>think a Class D station would operate the translator at night.

>I also see nothing wrong with using the FM translator as a STL to the
>AM.  While I would not want to process the AM much more than already
>being done on the FM, I don't know of a reason which prohibits such.

>MM

>On 12/25/2011 9:04 AM, Gary Peterson wrote:
>> I am aware of an AM station that is doing exactly
>> that.  Their (AM on FM) translator is being fed,
>> directly from the studio, with a 950 STL.  A
>> consumer-grade receiver at the AM transmitter site
>> is feeding the demodulated translator audio into
>> the AM rig.  I have nothing to do with this
>> operation.
>>
>> Gary
>>