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

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's another factor - these tiny power levels were never practical in the first place. Back in the 1970's and 80's, most equipment couldn't handle them, so many stations never used them and the 'allocations' are forgotten. 

And many stations may be using other power levels - granted or otherwise - because their equipment can't handle it now, or couldn't before, and no records are kept.

But I'd have to qualify the statement that if they can't prove it they can't use it by saying that's what the letter of the regulations say, but that I doubt many stations either know that nor practice it, and unless there's an interference complaint, the FCC will never know and never act.


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, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] Pre-sunrise powers and Critical Hours powers
> To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 12:43 PM
> They really do exsist, but the FCC
> hasnt kept records.... its up to the stations and if they
> cant prove it, they cant use it. 
>  
> ALot of stations dont use em as its too much of a
> hassle to program, less power then their actual night pwoer
> or so little difference it isnt worth it.. any number of
> factors.
>  
> paul
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:39 AM,
> <amdxmail@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> 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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