Prometheus Radio Project urged the FCC to clarify and reconsider...
Prometheus Radio Project urged the FCC to clarify and reconsider some new rules related to protecting FM translator input signals in the Sixth Report and Order on the Local Community Radio Act. The report and order “indicates that low power…
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FM stations must protect an FM translator that receives its input signal from another FM translator station on a third adjacent station,” it said in a petition in docket 99-25 (http://bit.ly/Ve91nu). However, the revised rule seems to apply only to LPFM stations “which are on the third-adjacent channel to a translator’s primary station, and not to those which are third-adjacent to another translator,” it said. Prometheus urged the FCC to modify a rule prohibiting authorized LPFM stations from operating if an FM translator or FM booster station demonstrates that the LPFM station is causing actual interference to the FM booster station’s input signal, “provided that the same input signal was in use at the time the LPFM station was authorized.” It should be modified to require that the input signal be in use “prior to the release of the public notice announcing an LPFM application window period,” it said. Prometheus also urged the FCC to require all translator owners to update their records with an electronic “non-form filing.”