[BC] Regulations For AM Station DX Te sts

[Phil Alexander]

On 31 Dec 2005 at 10:28, Cowboy wrote:

 
>  Whether or not I may agree with the rules is not relevant.
>  The rules are what the rules are. That I am able to make 
>  a living by playing within the rules, for good or ill, is 
>  the hand that I have been dealt. 
> 
>  At the time, the powers that were thought that a radio 
>  station on every street corner, shoe-horned in by any 
>  means, was a good idea, for whatever reason. That "harmful 
>  interference" may have been the direct result of that line 
>  of thinking, requiring night time pattern authorizations
>  that differ from daytime authorizations in order to make 
>  these stations "fit" is no justification for ignoring the 
>  rules, and somehow justifying unauthorized daytime facility 
>  operation at night.
> 
>  The licensees of these stations have agreed to play by 
>  those rules. Therefore, I can not see playing by the rules 
>  previously agreed to by the players as "too much government" 
>  in any case.
> 
>  HOWEVER, if your comment is meant as a political disagreement 
>  with the number of radio stations as a result of this 
>  shoe-horning in by use of complex pattern adjustment and 
>  maintenance by which many of us put food on the table, then 
>  no, I'd not be one out to lynch anyone. In fact, in light of 
>  the result of decades of questionable political decisions
>  by the Commission apparently based on a narrow view of 
>  immediate financial return with no regard for the future, 
>  financial, technical, or  otherwise, you may find more 
>  agreement with your position than you apparently realize !
> 
>  For my part(s) in building, tuning, and in the past, 
>  maintaining stations to provide maximum coverage within their 
>  legal authorizations, I will make no apology.  True, some 
>  of them probably should not have been built, depending on
>  one's point of view, but that decision was made by others
>  for whatever legal reasons.

<snip> 

>  In the case presented, a wanna-be engineer with a clip lead 
>  could probably do a million dollars worth of damage in very 
>  short order.  We are professionals working in a professional 
>  industry. I have little sympathy for an owner or manager who 
>  would allow such incompetence unsupervised access to such a 
>  potential loss.

Barry is going to want to kill me for this <g> so I did make 
one snip.

However, to what Cowboy has said, I can only add a hearty Amen.
What he says should be part of AM-101 engineering, if there
were such a course. Since there isn't, it should be required
reading for anyone seriously involved in doing AM engineering
work IMHO.

Happy New Year to All!


Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037





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