Re: [IRCA] Opinions requested on documenting station swaps

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

To me these are call changes. I note them in my logs, ( and would do so again should they change again down the road ) but I don't count them in my totals.

I know that others do things differently, but many do it this way also.

At one time, I counted call changes, however I realized that as the different calls had no effect on my ability to hear the station or not, and the facilities were the same, that counting them no longer made sense, so I re-did my logs at the time to that effect.

Russ Edmunds
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--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [IRCA] Opinions requested on documenting station swaps
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 3:13 AM
> I'm playing with radio station
> history again and I'm doing battle with
> myself about how to document station swaps.  I'll give
> two examples.
> 
> Example #1:  A few years back, KLOC/920/Ceres CA
> format moved to
> KVIN/1390/Turlock CA, and the KVIN format moved over to
> KLOC.  The call
> letters swapped with the format change.  From a
> listener's perspective, that
> is a frequency change and the city change is transparent to
> the listener.
> >From the FCC perspective, its two call letter changes
> for two separate
> facilities and who cares about the formats.
> 
> Example #2:  Recently, KERN/1410/Bakersfield CA
> swapped formats and call
> letters with KERI/1180/Wasco CA.  As with example #1,
> the listener finds
> their favorite station on a new frequency, and the city
> change is
> transparent.  The FCC sees it as two call letter
> changes for two facilities.
> 
> I'm on the fence and looking for opinions on how this
> should be properly
> documented.
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