FCC Should Allow Synchronous Boosters for AM Stations
The FCC should allow AM stations in Puerto Rico to use synchronous boosters as it has for WSTE-TV Ponce, said broadcast engineer Jorge Blanco-Galdo in an email to Chairman Ajit Pai in docket 13-249 Wednesday. According to a 2002 public…
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notice attached to the email filed Wednesday, the FCC in 1986 allowed Siete Grande Television’s WSTE-TV to construct an experimental system of “multiple cochannel transmitters” that simultaneously broadcast in an attempt to provide better service in “Puerto Rico’s mountainous terrain.” Like WSTE, AM broadcasters have found multiple synchronous boosters useful to increase reception. “However, AM radio is treated differently,” said Blanco-Galdo. “Why can't the FCC proceed making permanent existing boosters in Puerto Rico and the Continental US as it proceeded with WSTE-TV's boosters?”