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REC's "2x70" concept for the handling of the pending Auction 83 (Great Translator Invasion) applictions is starting to gain support in the broadcast engineering community. Radio World's Michael LeClair recently described our proposals:
REC’s commonsense proposals go a long way to address the faults of the 2003 translator window and point the way to a more reasonable translator allocation system.
We are very confident that we have the most sophisticated handling method for these applications that would assure that translators are available in areas where they are the most needed (the rural areas) and LPFM stations are available in the areas where they are most needed (the suburban and urban areas). "2x70" imposes a counterbalance in the current structure where there are more urban translators and more rural LPFMs. Rural LPFM must continue to be made available and if anything we feel that rural LPFM deserves a boost, we also see the value of translators in rural areas. "2x70" assures that in the rural areas where there's plenty of room for both LPFM and translators, they can both co-exist. These are opportunities that would have been foreclosed upon with the 10-cap.