Re: [IRCA] KXEL deserves a reprimand or license revocation

["Les Rayburn" <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not aware of any FCC regulation that requires a station to have backup 
electrical
power as a requirement for license. Your points about lost revenue and the 
greater
public good are certainly valid, but there could all kinds of reasons why 
the
station decided against purchasing an emergency generator.

Besides, there outage has given a lot of DX'ers the opportunity to log
some new stations...which I thought was the point of this club/e-mail list.

Why so many DX'ers seem to want to sit in judgment about how stations
should and do conduct their affairs is beyond me. These posts will likely
find their way back to the management at KXEL making it harder to
obtain a DX test, QSL's or other consideration from them in the future.

My advice is to think before you post. :)

73




Les Rayburn, director
High Noon Film
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Birmingham, AL 35216
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXEL deserves a reprimand or license revocation


> Mike McKenna wrote:
>> Having a back-up power system is NOT an FCC requirement.  They have a
>> radio tower and a studio -- so they deserve a gold star -- not a
>> fine.
>
> A gold star? Hardly.
>
> If you're setting out to serve the public, emergency conditions like
> this are precisely when that service is most needed. Whether or not a
> generator is an FCC requirement, and it's not, there's still a higher
> expectation that a class A signal like KXEL will be prepared for the
> likelihood that at some point, it will lose utility power.
>
> It's also just good business sense; the revenue KXEL is surely losing by
> not being on the air for a week must have far outweighed what a
> generator would have cost by now.
>
> At least KXEL isn't an EAS LP-1 or LP-2 station for its region - though
> one of its sister FMs, KFMW 107.9, is, and I think it lost power as well.
>
> Any radio station that wants to portray itself as a supplier of vital
> information to its community should make room in the budget for a backup
> supply of power to keep it on the air when its services are most needed.
>  You think the people of north central Iowa won't remember that KXEL
> was missing in action this week?
>
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