FCC Tech Filings Include UP Station Reverting to 100 Watts

The following requests for special temporary authority have been requested from the FCC in the past month:

Townsquare Media’s KDAT/104.5 (Cedar Rapids) is transmitting at 80 percent of its usual 100kW. The station says it is working to resolve technical issues.

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Townsquare Media’s WDBQ-FM/107.5 (Galena, IL-Dubuque, IA) is broadcasting at 35 percent of its normal power after its transmitter partially failed. A new transmitter has been ordered. WDBQ-FM normally rimshots Dubuque with a 6kW signal.

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Michigan Technological University’s WMTU-FM/91.9 (Houghton, MI) has reverted to its previous 100-Watt facility, dropping back from 4.4kW. The station says in an FCC filing that it is “no longer allowed to transmit” from the licensed 4.4kW facility that it had used for 13 years. It has received special temporary authority to use 100 Watts and says it intends to apply to permanently return its license to the lower power level.

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KUVR/1380 (Holdrege, NE), which Legacy Communications is in the process of selling to the Nebraska Rural Radio Association, is transmitting at reduced power from its studio building. As reported here in September, KUVR and FM translator K245CK/96.9 were evicted from the land on which the KUVR tower stood. KUVR is licensed for 500 Watts day and 62 Watts night; it’s now using 25 Watts day and night with an antenna usually used by traveler information stations. The 25-Watt facility still provides a strong signal to most of Holdrege.

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The University of Nebraska’s KRNU/90.3 (Lincoln) is operating at about 30 percent of its usual 100 Watts. The station said in an early October filing that it suspects its 50-year-old tower may have been damaged and may need to be replaced.

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My Bridge Radio’s K282AX/104.3 (Paxton, NE) left the air in late September. My Bridge says the transmitter is in need of repair and its backup transmitter is already in service.

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KTHC/95.1 (Sidney, MT-Williston, ND) is transmitting at 75 percent of its licensed power due to transmitter problems. A filing says the station is working to determine the source of the issue. KTHC normally uses 100kW from a tower along the Montana-North Dakota border, midway between Sidney and Williston.

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WJMC/1240 (Rice Lake, WI) is transmitting from a shorter, temporary tower while its main tower is replaced.