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

["Tim Kridel" <tkridel@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that the business aspects of running a station are a separate issue
from DX tests but equally interesting. I don't work in radio, so I hadn't
though about the points Scott raised. 

-----Original Message-----
From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Les Rayburn
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:29 PM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXEL deserves a reprimand or license revocation

Then maybe Scott would like to try scheduling all the DX tests for next
season. :)

Seriously guys, at least four or five times per year, I contact a station
regarding a possible DX test only to spend the next hour or so on the phone
listening to some horror story about a DX'er who said something, did
something, demanded something, got me in trouble with my boss, etc. I
constantly end up apologizing for the actions of a few, but ultimately they
damage all of us.

I'm not advocating censorship or anything like it, but a lot of broadcasters
read this list. And even more folks forward messages posted here to others.
Someone will forward these comments to KXEL, and I'd guess that they will
take offense to them. In turn, that hurts the reputation of hobbyists...

And what is the benefit? Someone gets to express their opinion about how
KXEL should be running their business. Others get to agree or disagree...in
the end, not one of us gets a new logging out it. And we may do harm to the
hobby in the process.

Me, I'm silly. I like to listen to distant radio stations. I run my own
business and have my hands full doing it. The last thing I'd want is to have
somebody who doesn't know my business commenting about how I should be
running it.




Les Rayburn, director
High Noon Film
100 Centerview Drive Suite 111
Birmingham, AL 35216
205.824.8930
205.824.8960 Fax
205.253.4867 Cell
http://www.highnoonfilm.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Kridel" <tkridel@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America'" 
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXEL deserves a reprimand or license revocation


>
> Scott made some valid points. It's clear to me that he thought before he
> posted.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Les Rayburn
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:54 PM
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXEL deserves a reprimand or license revocation
>
> 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
> 100 Centerview Drive Suite 111
> Birmingham, AL 35216
> 205.824.8930
> 205.824.8960 Fax
> 205.253.4867 Cell
> http://www.highnoonfilm.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"
> <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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