[BC] High School Football Games --- STA

[Mark Durenberger]

What DX-ers often say is that "the station's cheating."  That over-worked 
word flies in the face of the very attribute that makes DX-ing fun: the 
vagaries of propagation.

Instead of a cartwheel and a 'wow', when conditions shift to bring a station 
pounding in 20-30 db higher than usual, the usual response is: "they're 
cheating; they're still on day power."

End of rant

Mark Durenberger


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Smith W4KNX" <paul at amtower.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:11 AM
Subject: RE: [BC] High School Football Games --- STA


> Dont hold me to it, but I think the term originated with DXers who know 
> that
> Friday nites in the fall usually reveal a treasure trove of stations. 
> They
> always are running HSFB.  Thus the term....
>
> Paul Smith
> W4KNX
> Sarasota, FL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net]On Behalf Of Bailey, Scott
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:11 AM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [BC] High School Football Games --- STA
>
>
> The commission realizes that AM stations (especially small town
> station...NOT SMALL MARKET...small town) have a tuff way to go. That's
> the reason through the 80's and early 90's the FCC did all they could do
> to give AM daytime only stations some relief with PSRA/PSSA and flea
> power at night. The inspectors turn their heads on Friday night
> football, as long as there are no interference problems, which means no
> major complaints. If a complaint is filed, like Mike mentions, then the
> AM station causing the interference must turn the power down or turn it
> off. It's as simple as that!
>
> There is no such thing, and never has been a grant from the commission
> called "Sports Temporary Authority". That sounds like some sports
> announcer's logic of making crap like that up and showing me they
> haven't a clue what Part 73 of the AM rules are! No Communications
> Attorney would as for anything like that.  Some people really burn me up
> with their stupidity of the law.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Mike McCarthy
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:56 AM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] High School Football Games --- STA
>
> At one of my client stations, we had the same thing.  Co-channel station
>
> every Friday night stayed on at day power/pattern and their skywave
> blasted
> us right out of the water over most of our home area.  Our sports people
>
> were fuming.
>
> It took a cease and desist letter from the station's lawyer to the other
>
> station's owner with the threat of suing them in federal court over lost
>
> revenues for them to power down reliably. The threat of big time lawyers
>
> and ongoing ligation in an area they don't have influence and which they
>
> have no way of prevailing as the only way to get their attention. It
> seems
> the FCC had visited them once before and they simply forgot about the
> previous citation for the same violation.
>
> MM
>
> At 09:36 AM 6/14/2006 -0500, Golchert, Michael A. wrote
>>         I wonder how many stations stay on at a higher power for HS
>>Football/Basketball claiming "Sports Temporary Authority"?  I've run
>>across a couple of these "claims" while doing APIB inspections several
>>years ago.  One station even boasted that they had written approval
> from
>>the FCC.  When asked for the FCC letter, they suddenly forgot where
> they
>>filed it...yea right.
>>
>>
>>Michael A. Golchert
>>AM Field Engineer
>>Clear Channel
>
>
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