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If there is not a frequency available at that site, you can try another address somewhere nearby (often right outside of town helps), or you can try clicking on one of the nearby co-ordinate sets that the FCC recommends lower on the page. (if there are no available frequencies within ten kilometers, the FCC website will tell you that). It will give a list of potential transmitter sites and it will say for example "try moving __ km N and __ km W." Keep clicking on the different highlighted co-ordinates until you hit the jackpot.

If this process fails to produce results for you, call Prometheus. We have a more sophisticated version of this software which can ferret out possible channels and locations in your area. The software that we have is not as powerful as the databases employed by professional broadcast engineers, but it can find many things that the channel finder can not and we will run it for free for community organizations.

If our software finds nothing, and you are still determined, broadcast engineers for between $100 and $300, will do a search for you that can identify potential locations. Broadcast engineers also have software that can predict the performance of your station much more accurately than the FCC channel finder, and can identify topographical and interference issues thancan help you choose one site over another.

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