The Magazine for TV and FM DXers February 2018 DOES YOUR AM BAND FEEL REVITALIZED YET? The Official Publication of the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association INSIDE THIS VUD CLICK TO NAVIGATE 02 The Mailbox 27 FM News 50 New NBC Affil. (Iowa) 03 TV News 47 Photo News 51 Digital Subchannels 15 FM Facilities 49 NBC to pull KENV Outperform Cable DX REPORTS/PICS FROM: **crickets** THE WORLDWIDE TV-FM DX ASSOCIATION Serving the UHF-VHF Enthusiast THE VHF-UHF DIGEST IS THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WORLDWIDE TV-FM DX ASSOCIATION DEDICATED TO THE OBSERVATION AND STUDY OF THE PROPAGATION OF LONG DISTANCE TELEVISION AND FM BROADCASTING SIGNALS AT VHF AND UHF. WTFDA IS GOVERNED BY A BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DOUG SMITH, KEITH McGINNIS AND MIKE BUGAJ. Editor and publisher: Ryan Grabow Treasurer wtfda.org Webmaster: : Keith McGinnis Tim McVey Forum Site Administrator: Chris Cervantez Editorial Staff: Jeff Kruszka, Keith McGinnis, Fred Nordquist, Nick Langan, Doug Smith, John Zondlo and Mike Bugaj Website: www.wtfda.org; Forums: http://forums.wtfda.org FEBRUARY 2018 DUES RECEIVED JANUARY IS OVER DATE NAME S/P EXP January is over and it’s just as well. For most of us in 12/14/2017 Brian S May CT 12-19 the TV and FM Dxing hobby the only thing memorable 12/22/2017 Jim Pizzi NY 12-20 about January was the almost unending extremely bitter cold temperatures. January is the month when some DXers 12/22/2017 Russ Edmunds PA 12-18 go on the various message boards or prop loggers and talk 12/22/2017 Barry Bauer DE 12-18 about everything except TV/FM Dxing. 12/27/2017 James Niven TX 12-18 12/27/2017 Chris Lucas NY 12-18 A FEW CLUB STATS 12/29/2017 Chester Jaffee CA 12-18 12/30/2017 Rick Shaftan NC 12-18 We ended up 2017 with just shy of 190 club members. We probably have a bit over $4500 in our club checking account. At 1/1/2018 Larry Kenney CA 5-19 this time we are printing 11 paper VUDs for a few US members 1/11/2018 David Wurl WI 12-18 without computers. 1/16/2018 Fred McCormack MN 12-18 The printing cost for those paper VUDs totaled $492. Postage was about $137. The post office box for #501 was $66. 1/17/2018 Calvin Glover NC 1-19 We gave a $50 gift to our Python guru in Ohio as thanks for 1/19/2018 Charles Gauthier QC 1-19 him getting the database site back up after our Host upgraded 1/24/2018 Roosevelt Crawford KS 1-19 their version of Python on the site and killed the database. Thanks, Dreamhost. 1/24/2018 Dave Pomeroy OR 12-18 Mail to the post office box has dropped to the point where I 1/24/2018 Kaimbridge MA 01-19 only need to check it once a week. 1/24/2018 Paul Mitschler NM 01-19 As a side note, I just paid again for the post office box and the USPS just raised that to $72 for a year. So once again, thank you to every one of you who stays with Welcome back to Rick Shaftan and thanks everyone for your WTFDA. Without you, there’s no us. support of the WTFDA! Enjoy all the translator listings this month. We’ll see you next month with even more of them. -Mike Douglas E. Smith 1389 Old Clarksville Pike Pleasant View, TN 37146-8098 TV News [email protected] http://www.w9wi.com February 2018 Location RF Ch Callsign Notes Alabama Alabaster 15 W15AZ Returned to the air, 450 watts, 33-13-46/86-42-56 Athens 11 WTZT-CD Granted power increase to 1.11kw, 34-44-13/86-31-59 Birmingham 20 WABM From 36, 1000kw/401m, 33-29-05/86-48-25; granted Birmingham 24 WBXA-CD Granted power increase to 15kw Montgomery 22 WCOV-TV From 20, 700kw/528m; modification from 505kw/528m; granted Selma 25 WAKA From 42, 944kw/495m; granted Scottsboro 27 WNAL-LP Granted conversion from analog, 900 watts Tuscaloosa 21 W21DM Requests power reduction to 300 watts, 33-29-05/86-48-25; amendment from 6kw & to change site Tuscaloosa 22 WSWH-LD From 46, 15kw, 33-29-05/86-48-25 (WTTO tower, Birmingham) Tuscaloosa 36 WSES From 33, 800kw/659m; granted Alaska Anchorage 32 K32KB Power reduced to 1.1kw, 61-09-40/149-51-28 Anchorage 35 KCFT-CD Granted conversion to digital from analog ch. 20, 15kw, 61-04- 00/149-44-44; converted; granted Special Temporary Authority for 1.5kw due to transmitter failure Platinum 13 K13UJ Request to convert to digital dismissed, no response to request for FAA clearance Scammon Bay 7 K07SR Request to convert to digital dismissed, see K13UJ Platinum Sitka 5 KSCT-LD Power increased to 619 watts, 57-03-01/135-20-08 Wrangell 15 K15AJ Request to convert to digital dismissed, see K13UJ Platinum Yakutat 9 K09UA Request to convert to digital dismissed, see K13UJ Platinum Arizona Camp Verde 30 K47IK From 47, 122 watts, 34-28-13/111-52-24; also requests Special Temporary Authority for these facilities Casas Adobes 4 K04QP Granted site change to 32-14-57/111-07-01 Holbrook 11 KDTP Requests power increase to 160kw/54m, 34-23-19/110-59-39 FEBRUARY 2018 ··· 3 ··· TV NEWS Location RF Ch Callsign Notes Kingman 18, K41FT, Special Temporary Authority for these channels, 1.26kw/ 29, K48AY, 940 watts/ 33, K49GE, 1kw/ 35 K50CY 980 watts. (T-Mobile?) Tucson 40 KHRR Special Temporary Authority for 273.7kw/601m, interim antenna to allow installation of post-repack antenna without downtime on pre-repack channel. Arkansas Fayetteville 36 KFFS-CD Granted power increase to 15kw Little Rock 28 KARZ-TV From 44, 525kw/448m; granted Paragould 26 KPMF-LD OFF Jan. 16th, power failure damaged transmitter; site is near Memphis, Tenn. Sheridan 47 KMYA-LD Converted to digital, 15kw California Agoura Hills 3 KVTU-LD Returned to the air Jan. 15th Chico 11 KKRM-LD Call changed from K11VZ Corona 25 KVEA From 39, 665kw/991m, 34-13-32/118-03-55; modification from 748kw/901m at 34-12-48/118-03-44; granted Crowley Lake 5 K05FR License canceled Eureka 14 KVIQ-LP Call changed from K14QL Eureka 17 KJRW Call changed from KVIQ Keyes 2 K02QP Granted power reduction to 25 watts 37-29-27/120-52-31 (Turlock) Los Angeles 4 KWHY-TV From 42, 45kw/892m, 34-12-48/118-03-44; modification from 14kw/887m and before that, 3.79kw/887m Los Angeles 35 KTLA From 31, 1000kw/981m; granted Modesto 49 K49EO Returned to the air Jan. 14th Planada 2 K02QP New to the air, 550 watts, 37-16-41/120-37-39; requests power increase to 3kw, 36-59-14/120-12-25 Redding 10 KMCA-LD Requests power reduction to 215 watts, 40-35-39/122-21-20 Redding 23 KRDT-CD Requests site change to 40-36-10/122-39-04; granted Redding 46 K46HI Converted to digital, 15kw Redding 50 K50GP Returned to the air Jan. 13th Redding 51 K51LK OFF Feb. 14th, T-Mobile Sacramento 20 K20JX Requests power increase to 15kw, 38-46-21/121-12-33 Sacramento 21 KSPX-TV From 48, 952kw/488m; modification from 592kw/488m on ch. 22 Sacramento 24 KMAX-TV From 21, 725kw/556m San Diego 17 KNSD From 40, 385kw/579m; modification from 200kw/579m; granted San Francisco 3 KURK-LD Call changed from K03IC San Jose 30 KQEH Here from ch. 50, 1000kw/512m, 37-45-19/122-27-10; sharing on KQED San Francisco, group 53 San Jose 33 KKPX-TV Form 41, 510kw/432m San Juan Bautista 4 K04RS OFF pending modification. Interfered with the feed to co-owned KQRO-LD. San Marcos 36 KSKT-CD Granted power increase to 15kw Santa Barbara 17 KSBB-CD Granted power increase to 15kw Santa Rosa 21 KDTV-CD From 28, 11kw; granted Stockton 32 KFKK-LD Returned to the air Jan. 14th Turlock 4 KBIS-LD Returned to the air Jan. 14th Colorado Boulder 15 KCEC Call changed from KTFD-DT Denver 26 KTFD-TV Call changed from KCEC Durango 16 K16GZ Power increased to 1.5kw, 37-15-46/107-53-32 FEBRUARY 2018 ··· 4 ··· TV NEWS Location RF Ch Callsign Notes Longmont 29 KDEN-TV Requests power reduction to 650kw/269m, 39-43-51/105-13-56 Loveland 30 KAVC-LP Requests conversion from analog ch. 48, 15kw; amended to change site to 40-00-43/105-11-18 Romeo 3 K45GD From 45, 100 watts, 36-51-34/106-01-08 Woodland Park 28 K28GE Power reduced to 905 watts Connecticut Waterbury 33 WCCT-TV From 20, 220kw/517m; modification from 69.2kw/517m; granted Delaware Dover 3 WEVD-LD Special Temporary Authority for 550 watts, 39-11-09/75-29-27 pending the results of the repack Georgetown 42 WBOC-LD Granted power increase to 15kw, 38-30-18/75-38-36 District of Columbia Washington 15 WDCW Moved from 50, 1000kw/227m, 38-56-24/77-04-53, sharing on WFDC-DT Arlington, Va.; group 28 Washington 30 WIAV-CD From 44, 48kw; granted. Application requested waiver to normal 30kw power limit but didn't say why. Washington 31 WETA-TV From 27, 1000kw/257m; granted Florida Boca Raton 25 WBEC-TV From 40, 1000kw/285m; granted; modification from 734kw/285m Daytona Beach 49 WOTF-TV Call changed from WVEN-TV Fort Myers 22 WGCU From 31, 750kw/276m; amendment from 244kw/274m Live Oak 48 WFXU Special Temporary Authority for estimated 10% power (about 2.2kw) due to transmitter damage Melbourne 20 WSCF-LD Granted Special Temporary Authority to operate at reduced antenna height of 11 meters due to Hurricane Irma Melbourne 43 WVEN-TV Call changed from WOTF-DT Miami 27 WSFL-TV From 19, 1000kw/297m; modification from 1000kw/240m Naples 43 WWDT-CD Power granted 15kw, 26-30-20/81-51-08 Panama City 16 W16CX New to air, 4.8kw, 30-11-03/85-46-36 Tampa 13 WEDQ Moved from 34, 25kw/471m; call changed from WUSF-TV; sharing on WEDU, group 43 Tampa 47 WVEA-TV Call changed from WFTT-DT Venice 25 WFTT-TV Call changed from WVEA-TV Georgia Albany 23 WQDU-LD Requests power reduction to 2kw; amendment from 6kw Albany 48 W48DU OFF Jan.