[IRCA] From KHMO 1070's Chief Engineer

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
*From:* Gary Glaenzer <glaenzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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 its 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. <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>
*To:* glaenzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx ; JKi5384486@xxxxxxx
*Sent:* Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:23 PM
*Subject:* Fwd: Re: [IRCA] Re KHMO and DX alerts

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