[IRCA] Censoring ourselves (was KXEL, etc. etc., etc.)

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

Patrick,

I disagree. Profoundly. This list is about US (MW DXers) and our hobby. Are 
we going to censor ourselves because we're worried about the opinions or 
"hurt feelings" of someone who Googles into our list?

I think not!

I made my initial comments about KXEL, and I let them stand. I DID prefix 
them with a "sweetener" of making a fool of myself. But I still say they 
have their validity.

I never even slightly supposed there would break loose the debate that 
followed!

The debate showed me some holes in my thinking, but I  think the whole 
debate was germane to our hobby.

We are blessed with members who work in the broadcast business as a 
profession. They had their say, and even they debated amongst themselves.

That said, KXEL is the first 50-kW clear that I know of in the past 20 
years that stayed flat, dead, off the air for nearly a week. Towers have 
collapsed, and the associated stations got back on (albeit with reduced 
coverage) in a hurry.

Furthermore, there existed a major disaster in the chaos following the 
winter storm up in Iowa. That was KXEL's chance to serve. Bad generator? 
Bad fuel?  In that case, FEMA dropped the load, too.

Down here, we went through some major flooding in the dual wake of 
Hurricanes David and Floyd. Grifton remained without power for 68 hours and 
10 minutes. I very much appreciated the day-by-day, minute-by-minute 
updates on local-area stations that stayed on the air with backup power.

If "engineers" need to go trolling via Google to find disparaging remarks 
on a hobby site, then maybe they need to find themselves other hobbies.

Just my 2¢ worth.

73,

Charles
        -----
Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
Greenville, North Carolina


At 09:01 PM 3/6/2007 -0800, you wrote:
>Les,
>
>That does not surprise me. I know of several engineers that find the
>IRCA & NRC postings on other lists. It is amazing something that is
>commented on right now, well be on another list within a few minutes for
>anyone to read. We should try to crub discussions that will iritate
>broadcasting personel.
>
>73,
>
>Patrick
>
>Patrick Martin
>KAVT Reception Manager
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