Re: [IRCA] IRCA Digest, Vol 70, Issue 55

["HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS" <DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx>]

Good observations, Steve.  I had thought that station on top of station
still signed on at 0600 but guess that I'm not DX'ing very often right
at that time.  I *do* hear stations on assumed PSRA such as at 0645 when
the station's actual FCC sunrise may not be until 0745.

I do agree that Critical Hours must be a "supposed to be" kind of thing
as I hear many stations booming in at sunset that I would think would be
impossible with their supposed CH power.

Thanks.

Dave in Indy

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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:39:35 -0500
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Subject: [IRCA] Pre-sunrise powers and Critical Hours powers
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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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