Sec. 74.737  Antenna location.

    (a) An applicant for a new low power TV, TV translator, or TV 
booster station or for a change in the facilities of an authorized 
station shall endeavor to select a site that will provide a line-of-
sight transmission path to the entire area intended to be served and at 
which there is available a suitable signal from the primary station, if 
any, that will be retransmitted.
    (b) The transmitting antenna should be placed above growing 
vegetation and trees lying in the direction of the area intended to be 
served, to minimize the possibility of signal absorption by foliage.
    (c) A site within 8 kilometers of the area intended to be served is 
to be preferred if the conditions in paragraph (a) of this section can 
be met.
    (d) Consideration should be given to the accessibility of the site 
at all seasons of the year and to the availability of facilities for the 
maintenance and operation of the transmitting equipment.
    (e) The transmitting antenna should be located as near as is 
practical to the transmitter to avoid the use of long transmission lines 
and the associated power losses.
    (f) Consideration should be given to the existence of strong radio 
frequency fields from other transmitters at the site of the transmitting 
equipment and the possibility that such fields may result in the 
retransmissions of signals originating on frequencies other than that of 
the primary station being rebroadcast.

[ 47 FR 21500 , May 18, 1982, as amended at  52 FR 31404 , Aug. 20, 1987]