Re: [IRCA] KXEL Petition

[Les Rayburn <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

While generally I respect your positions, I have to disagree on this one. 

The Class A stations provide vital service to audiences who are isolated from population centers. If you travel much in the Western US, and even parts of the East, youâll find there are more of these areas than some would believe. 

More importantly, during regional emergencies, Class A stations offer perhaps the only communication link that is wide-reaching, infrastructure independent, and reliable. During Hurricanes Katrina, and Rita as well as Superstorm Sandy, I witnessed this first hand. We sheltered evacuees from New Orleans in our neighborhood in advance of Katrina, and by listening to WLW, they were able to get breaking news about their neighborhoods. For days, it was literally the only reliable source of information about the disaster. 

Saw this repeat again in Washington, DC during Sandy, as people evacuated from New Jerseyâand relied on the Class Aâs in the Northeast to get reliable information after cellular networks, the Internet, and other links had failed. 

If anything, I think the FCC should consider more protection for the Class A stations. 


73,

Les Rayburn, N1LF
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Maylene, AL 
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Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA. 

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> On Feb 26, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Here's my response:
> 
> Iâm all for the changesâ And Iâm a DXer and broadcaster!!
> 
> Who cares about WGY in Boston or Pittsburgh? Who cares about KDKA in
> Cincinatti or NYC?
> 
> Reduce Class A Statiobs protection down from 750 miles to 300 miles and be
> done with it. Most people, if they really wanna listen to WGY or KDKA from
> far away listen online.
> 
> The only people this 750 mile rule really help are DXers and the few
> distant distant listeners who donât have Internet.
> 
> Why service a few at the sacrifice and cost of many? Allow small stations
> night power or more night power to provide local programming
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Friday, February 26, 2016, Dr. Tom Gruis <donnatom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> My comments on the KXEL petition:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Response to KXEL petition - 02.26.2014.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In addition to the above, I submit that in a national emergency the high
>> power stations would provide needed dissemination of information within its
>> day and night coverage areas and provide redundancy should that be needed!
>> Low power and FM stations would be much less capable of providing the
>> public's interest, convenience, and necessity. Further, with the heightened
>> concerns about national security to limit available, operating, and viable
>> communications systems operating within the law seems at best foolhardy! In
>> terms of rapid emergency or even, God forbid, catastrophic periods the high
>> power stations would be a more immediate and possibly coordinated
>> communications facility. Many ground stations would be much more difficult
>> to sabotage than concentrated systems such as cable and satellites. And
>> remember the proven reliability and simplicity of the A. M. systems and
>> wireless communications in general.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Tom E. H. Gruis, Ed. D.
>> 
>> K0HTF
>> 
>> 
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