Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Pre-sunrise powers and Critical Hours powers

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the most part, the variations in different power levels are lost in transition when stations are sold, people leave, paperwork gets lost.

All of this began before the former daytimers were routinely getting night powers, and when everything was paper, and the broadcasting industry was more stable in terms of financials. Add to that the effects of deregulation on the requirements for engineers to be on staff and/or present and that's inevitable.

Then there's the downsizing of the FCC, and the shift in enforcement focus to mostly reacting to interference complaints, and station personnel get the attitudae that the FCC doesn't care, so there's not much point in keeping track of all of this.


Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Modified Sony ICF 2010 barefoot


--- On Tue, 2/16/10, amdxmail@xxxxxxx <amdxmail@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: amdxmail@xxxxxxx <amdxmail@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [NRC-AM] Pre-sunrise powers and Critical Hours powers
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, am@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 12:39 PM
> Is any attention paid to Pre-sunrise
> powers?  I don't hear anything 
> different happening at 6am and haven't for years. 
> It's just another 
> top-of-the-hour, as far as I can hear.  Years ago, on
> regional 
> frequencies, station sign-ons at 6:00 would pile on in
> layers, often 
> covering the usual night dominant on the channel. 
> Things sound no more 
> (or less) congested now at 6:03 than they did at 5:57.
> 
> Critical Hours restrictions have been ignored for
> years.  When I worked 
> at the Knoxville stations on 1580 and 1180 in the late
> 80's, nobody 
> knew what I was talking about when I mentioned them to
> staff, including 
> the owners.
> 
> I strongly suspect these power restrictions exist only in
> some musty 
> paper file in the bowels of the FCC building, as well as in
> the 
> idealistic imaginations of the DXing brotherhood.
> 
> Steve Francis
> Alcoa, Tennessee 
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