As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

• KGRY-LD 29.x (28) Gila River Indian Community (Gila River Telecommunications Inc.) requested and has been granted a license to cover its original construction permit. Although the station's stated intent was to operate in NextGen format, KGRY is operating as an ATSC 1.0 station. Technical specifications: Ch 28; TL 33° 19' 57" N, 112° 3' 57" W (South Mtn.); ERP 15 kW (DA CP 1.2° EBT); HAAT 475 m (1558 ft).
• KKAX-LD 36.x Hilltop (Tri-State Broadcasting LLC) has requested a license to cover its flash cut to digital. The station serves Kingman and surrounding area. Technical specifications: Ch 36; TL 35° 4' 53" N, 113° 54' 17" W (Hualapai Peak); ERP 0.022 kW (DA HP 1.75° EBT); HAAT 1063 m (3487 ft).

Wishing all a happy Independence Day!!

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

• KJPO-LD 25.x Tonopah (Iglesia Manmin Toda la Creacion USA Inc.) requested and was granted a license to cover its displacement construction permit. Technical specifications: Ch 25; TL 33° 31' 55" N, 113° 6' 32" W (Burnt Mtn.); ERP 15 H kW non-directional; HAAT 118 m.
• K16BP-D 45.x Cottonwood (Fox Television Stations LLC) requested and was granted a license to cover its construction permit, as amended, to co-locate with K36AE-D. Technical specifications: Ch 16; TL 34° 41' 13" N, 112° 7' 2" W (Mingus Mtn.); ERP 15 kW H directional (2° elec beam tilt); HAAT 777 m (2549 ft).

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

• KEJR-LD 40.x (32) Phoenix (TV-49 Inc.) requested and has been granted a license to cover its construction permit, as amended, allowing it to move higher on its tower, to modify its broadcast pattern, and to change polarization. Technical specifications: Ch 32; TL 33° 19' 57" N, 112° 3' 59" W (South Mtn.); ERP 15 kW H / 10.5 kW V, non-directionak, 1° elec beam tilt; HAAT 483 m (1584 ft).
• KESE-LD 35.x Yuma (NPG of Yuma-El Centro LLC) requested and has been granted a license to cover its flash cut to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 35; TL 32° 38' 31" N, 114° 33' 37" W (S Ave 4E & E County 14th St); ERP 8 kW H, directional, 0.25° elec beam tilt; HAAT 78 m (256 ft).

I wanted to let everyone know that earlier today I shipped the new server off to its new home, and it is tentatively scheduled to arrive there on Wednesday. So sometime Wednesday (or later in the week), expect some down time as the server is swapped out and I do the final steps to migrate to the new server. I've done the initial setup, but will need to copy over the most recent version of the database and things like that before it can go live, and it's going to be an in-place exchange of the temporary server for the new one, so there will be down time while the database is restored onto the new server. But once RabbitEars is moved to it, we should be set for a very long time.

Next, I previously promised that I would provide more details on the RabbitEars hosting situation, and I think now is as good a time as any. Our generous host is the founder of Silica Broadband in Prospect, KY. He's a long-time member of Satellite Guys who started Silica Broadband several years ago. It is a fiber ISP in the area, but also provides web hosting out of its Kentucky facility, and he wanted to help out by providing RabbitEars with a new home. I am extremely grateful for his help, and I am especially pleased to be working with someone who understands what RabbitEars does and appreciates its value to the OTA community.

Finally, I thought everyone would like to know more about the server that RabbitEars will be using. I've built it myself from new parts, and it has an AMD Ryzen 3700X processor, 32GB ECC RAM, 2x2TB WD Red M.2 SSDs in RAID-1, and runs Ubuntu Server 20.04. To say this is an improvement over the old server would be a vast understatement. The old server had a 2009-era Xeon in it, 16GB RAM, 2x2TB hard drives in RAID-1, and ran Ubuntu 16.04. The benchmarks I found indicate the new CPU performs about 10 times better than the old one, and RAM has never been a limiting factor for RabbitEars.

Exciting times await. I'm looking forward to a faster and more reliable RabbitEars!

If you're seeing this post, you're now on the new temporary server. Yes, another move will happen again in the coming weeks, but we're now off the old hosting.

Won't promise everything is working yet or that there won't be momentary downtime as I continue to tinker tomorrow, but the Signal Search Map should now function again, though Canadian results may be a bit less accurate than normal at the moment once you get more than a short distance away from the border, and the Live Bandscan should be working soon. If you spot any issues, please let me know.