Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

The bands are already much too crowded, and third adjacent IS still a big
issue, especially with crappy radios in urban areas.

If third-adjacent LPFMs are a big problem, then why is nobody screaming
about *second*-adjacent translators?

They aren't? I have been for years. For the most part, it's not a matter
of the translators causing interference to a second-adjacent, so much as
the second-adjacent rendering the translator totally useless and nothing
more than a waste of electricity.

The situation today is very different than it was back in the days of
the Class D allocation. Getting rid of the low power class D license
(something I am ashamed to say was mostly the result of NPR lobbying)
paved the way for much of the lack of niche programming that we see today.
The problem is that the layout of the bands is very different than it was
back in 1978, and so you can't just drop an LPFM license into the books and
expect it to work without some other dramatic changes.
--scott

(Oh yes, you could insert in here my rant about "Christian" networks which
totally misuse the whole concept of the translator, and which should be shut
down as a result, but I've been giving that particular rant since the late
eighties and I've given up expecting anyone to listen.)
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."