[BC] Regulations For AM Station DX Tes ts

[Scott Cason]

 >>I've said for years that all stations should run at their maximum power
non-D and the strong will survive and cover up the weak. AND to heck with
the interference zone. Talk about radical, eh?

Tell you what, Steve.  Go out and invest $350,000 in an AM radio station.
Have it start to make a little money and pay it's bills when someone such as
yourself with a higher power station goes ND and wipes out half your market.
Think you'll be feeling the same way about the strong surviving?


 >>I don't want to get lynched by all the engineers in here that have
designed
and built arrays and have been on the phone with Kintronics more times than
they'd like to remember, so I'll leave a dead horse lie.

It's not the engineers, it's the owners, operators and investors that are
trying to make a living by operating under licenses facilities to protect
the other owners' investments.  I have a client here that's on 680kc.  I
would love to pop him up to 50kW ND just to see what would happen.  But
there is also another owner on 680 that's roughly 300 miles away, hence the
deep null to the south-southeast.  What right do I have to infringe on him
and damage his business?  None.  Politics aside, directional antennas serve
a real purpose.  One is they allow outlying cities that might not be able to
have a radio station to have one.  If an owner/investor wants to spend the
money to build a directional system, regardless of how complicated it is,
they should be allowed to.

Scott Cason
LaGrange Communications, LLC
502-213-0024
www.lagrange-com.com