Re: [IRCA] Day Power vs Night Power

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have one case of an "offender" being handled between two stations where I
was involved personally. While our station wasn't being interferred with, we
were the ones that caught it and made a polite phone call.

I was working for a Class C AM in New England, while in the car with my boss
late one night coming back from Walmart, we caught an 2 tower, 5KW Daytimer
on the air wellll past sunset. The Am just simulcasted an FM sister.

My boss called up the station from our studio while I was sitting there and
the person on the other end actually ended up getting snotty with us.... the
phone call ended and about 1 minute later, the offending station had signed
off.

With respect to what Scott said, it really depends on what Field office and
Field Agent you talk to. The ones I deal with, I know what they look for.

Paul Walker
www.onairdj.com

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Patrick Martin wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Inotherwords what you are saying is, the chances of a station using day
>> power at night being caught, is about the same chances of a person
>> winning the lottery.
>>
>
> I can't speak for Paul and his field office friends, but the odds are much
> better of being caught than of winning the lottery.
>
> In recent years, the FCC has issued as many as 30 or 40 Notices of Apparent
> Liability for day power/pattern at night - and that's not counting the
> informal warnings that a field agent might issue to a station that's
> otherwise in compliance.
>
> Figure that there are, what, 5000 AM stations in the country - but several
> thousand of those are class C graveyarders that use the same facility day
> and night, while a hundred or so more are ND-U or DA-1 class A or B signals
> with the same day and night power.
>
> That leaves maybe 2000-2500 class B and D signals that could potentially
> cheat and be caught...and if even 20 or 30 or those get nailed with a fine
> each year ($1500 at minimum, usually more), those are actually decent odds.
>
> Remember, too, that a lot of these cases are handled internally before they
> ever get to the FCC. A certain DA-N AM signal that's near and dear to me is
> plagued by a co-channel class D in a neighboring state with a bad habit of
> leaving its full day power running all night. When the problems recur, a
> phone call to the offending station usually takes care of things.
>
> One more note: the FCC field offices handle many matters other than
> catching AM cheaters. Most of their work is outside the broadcast arena,
> handling interference to government and business radio services and other
> such matters.
>
>
> s
>
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