[IRCA] Fw: Re: Re KHMO and DX alerts

["George Santulli " <gsantulli@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary Glaenzer sent this to me and asked to pass it along...george in VA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Glaenzer <glaenzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:14 
To: <gsantulli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Fw: Re: [IRCA] Re KHMO and DX alerts

George; 
  
Feel free to pass this on to the group 
  
Paul called me last evening to alert me that KHMO was still apparently on day power-pattern. 
  
This happens occasionally when the power-change computer at the site gets a bug up is hard drive and freezes up (actually, whenever Ralls County REA puts a glitch on the incoming AC and the back-up supply doesn't see it and switch immediately) 
  
I called the r/c and immediately went to 1000 W / nights 
  
To do otherwise, once I had been alerted of the malfunction, would be to have 'willfully' violated terms of the license 
  
I quote: 
  
In the event that an AM broadcast station is operating with a mode of operation not specified by the station license, then the station operation must be terminated within 3 minutes or the station output power must be reduced sufficiently to eliminate any excess radiation. This includes AM Directional stations with parameters or monitoring points out of tolerance with the station authorization. [See 73.1350(d)] 
  
Right now, I'm waiting for 1745 CST to roll around, so I can do it again this evening. 
  
I would be more than willing to do a full-power (5000 watts) (Gates 'FIVE') , day pattern 'test' some night after 0000 local time, followed by days @ 1000, nights @ 1000 and nights at 500 on the auxiliary (MW-1).......management agreeing, of course. 
  
Paul has offered to make me an audio file to run so your group could better ID the station. 
  
Thank you. 
  
Gary L. Glaenzer
325 East Douglas Avenue
Jacksonville IL 62650

  

First Phone P1-18-27485 issued May 1970 and proud of it ! 
  
  
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. <mailto:walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>  
To: glaenzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:glaenzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  ; JKi5384486@xxxxxxx <mailto:JKi5384486@xxxxxxx>  
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:23 PM 
Subject: Fwd: Re: [IRCA] Re KHMO and DX alerts 


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From: "George Santulli" <gsantulli@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gsantulli@xxxxxxxxxxx> >
Date: Feb 11, 2012 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Re KHMO and DX alerts
To: "IRCA" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >, "NRC NRC" <am@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:am@xxxxxxxxxxx> >, "NRC" <amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >, <amdx@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:amdx@xxxxxxxxxx> >


Saul, I will put in my two cents worth at the risk of being hung out to dry... I started my current TV career in radio...at age 15...got the requisite Third..Second and eventually First Class FCC license, all now deceased. I understand the sensitivities of day pattern vs night pattern etc. But for goodness sake...it was not like KHMO was leaking Plutonium...it was an error and my view...is ...no big deal. It did not kill off goldfish or wombats in nearby Quincy...it was just a radio station left inadvertanly on day power or pattern. I once had a job at now long gone KKIO in Santa Barbara, CA. We were a daytimer on 1290 khz, maybe 5kw day, can't remember. But it was a daytimer for sure. I had the "signoff" shift and a few times, even after I went through the arduous task of shutting the XMTR link off, there were times that the carrier was left on. I lived 40 miles from the station and did have to go back a few times to re-cycle the shutdown procedure. It was a rather complica!
 ted process and don't remember the details, only that a few times, the carrier was left on. I would get home and the CE of KCUB in Tucson would call to remind me that "we were still on the air", technically, because the carrier was on and people on the westside of Tucson, were complaining of a loss of fidelity etc. As far as I remember, no one was fried by my little carrier left on, no cats jumping off rooftops. Sure it was not right according to the rules...but.. So while I understand that by FCC regs a station with a specific night pattern must adhere to the "rules", but in the big picture we get so few breaks these days, wouldn't it have been nice to give some folks a shot at a normally hard to get station?  No one wants the CE to get into trouble, but it was not deliberate. That is my view. Okay...bring out the cross, the wooden nails and let it be... George in Virginia > From: sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:am@xxxxxxxxxxx> ; irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ; amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ; amdx@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:amdx@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:13:33 +0000
> Subject: [IRCA] Re KHMO and DX alerts
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> I posted the one and only tip on this one, and word came through that my post to these lists led to the broadvaster being immediately alerted to the situation. So that even a couple minutes later, when other DXers tried for it, KHMO was gone. My first instinct was to sit on the fence, and I still understand the desire to let a friend in the industry know immediately when something is awry. But I think this poses a dilemma for those of us who do post tips - and compared to the total number of list subscribers, those of us who post alerts are extremely few in number. If I post to a public list such as this, the risk is that by doing so I am potentially putting the kaibosh on the DX opportunity. This is not what my intent is when posting alerts. And it stands to make me think twice about where I post such alerts in the future, or whether I post them a few days after I have privately alerted a few people who I know to be interested in chasing a signal such as this. Is this rea!
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>  y what we want?  I realize that we can't and shouldn't dictate what people on the lists choose to do with the information. And I am also sensitive to a broadcaster or engineer, on this list or even not on this list, who may cringe at the thought their signal is getting out improperly. And I have absolutely no problem with someone alerting an engineer a day or more afterwards. I've done that myself with stations *chronically* having signal issues. But this experience re KHMO creates a dilemma for me, and the only way I can see resolving that dilemma is to find another, more discreet way to alert DXers who I know will want to chase the signal. Someone help me work through this one... Saul
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