[BC] Daylight Savings Time changes?

[Phil Alexander]

On 22 Jul 2005 at 13:15, Cowboy wrote:

> On Friday 22 July 2005 09:12, Scott Bailey wrote:
> > Willie,
> >     Sounds like you have a mess here.   Have you guys thought about working with WTOP
> >     and come to some kinda of agreement for you to run at 5 KW btw 6 AM and 6 PM
> >     during the winter months, reguradless of when your Sunrise of Sunset time actually are?
> 
>  Not according to the rules by which the station agreed to play in accepting a license !
> 
> On Friday 22 July 2005 10:53, Reader wrote:
> > Willie,
> > 
> >     If I were you (and your boss too), I'd just go ahead and sign on at 6 
> > AM and say, sc rew the interference!  Let's get real, this is politics, and 
> > you're hurting your business and regardless of what skywave is out there, 
> > that station needs to be on, conducting business at 6 AM, at full power, 
> > regardless of what some old-timer says that's living in the past!
> 
>  OK, wait a minute here....
> 
>  Are you seriously, openly, in public, over your real name, advocating
>  willful and blatant disregard for the rules, and deliberately causing
>  harmful interference to another licensed facility, by running power and
>  at times explicitly disallowed in the rules, AND for which the history
>  of fines is far from trivial ?
> 
>  This has GOT to be a joke !

Especially when the interference is directed toward not one, but two Class A
stations, namely WTOP and KSTP, both of whom are well known by the Commish,
and not for violating rules. Given the level of skywave WTOP puts into Milford,
it probably can claim that as a nighttime protected service area under the
rules in addition to the interference they would receive from the tail of
the WFIF pattern in their own back yard. KSTP is a longer path, but the WFIF
daytime pattern and power radiation in that direction is about 275 mv/m
at 1 km, so again, NO WAY. Even suggesting that is more than a joke. It's
completely NUTS, IMHO. This would not be a small violation and would not
be taken lightly. But, we need not worry because Willie wouldn't do it.

This is where I dislike the way the X-band addition was handled. If anyone
deserves an X-band allocation, it's WFIF. They have no hope of any useful
nighttime service on their frequency - none. It's true the Commission
probably erred when it permitted daytimers on Class A channels as a part
of the clear channel break up, but in those days everyone wanted an AM
license. There was considerable political pressure and they found spectrum
that should have remained untouched.


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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