Can I use the internet (e.g. a Barix) to send the programming to the translator?
This is only allowed in two situations:
If my organization is currently does not have a station, can we file in this window to get a new station?
Unfortunately, you cannot. This filing window is for FM translators, not for new stations. An FM translator is a "relay" station that rebroadcasts an already authorized FM or AM noncommercial educational (including LPFM) station.
FM translators must rebroadcast the exact programming of another broadcast station. For full-service FM stations, this includes rebroadcasting the HD stream (HD2, HD3, HD4) of an existing station that is running HD Radio. LPFMs are only permitted to rebroadcast their primary analog/HD1 programming.
FAQ: How many applications can I file in the reserved band translator window?
This will depend on the type of licensee you are:
News items, Substack and Daily Business items on FCC.today
Update - June 18, 2025 12:35PM EDT
While there are items that are appearing in the Daily Business section of FCC.today, the links may point to the FCC's EDOCS page with a message "The document you requested is not yet available in this system." or in some cases, may point to a very old document. We are aware of this.
Server migration involving content sites (including recnet.com)
Recently, REC has been experiencing extremely slow response on all System40 hosted sites across the REC Universe.
We have traced the issue to the Drupal content management system (CMS) software that we use to drive the content front end on recnet.com and fmtranslator.com. The excessive caching that is performed by Drupal has substantially impacted database performance.
To attempt to resolve this issue, we will be migrating recnet.com and fmtranslator.com to a separate VPS server with an SSD solely for the purpose of providing the content on these sites.
