[BC] New PSRA/PSSA nightmare!!

[Robert Kafarski]

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WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:  In a message dated 03/02/2007 07:54:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, Robertm at broadcast.net writes:

> But then you can't have your cake and eat it too.

That's not what I'm looking for. I'd like to, at the *minimum* keep what we already *had*! Now, even that precious little bit is being stripped away! >:[ (Rob the poor to give more to the rich?)

> You recently 
> complained about other stations that ran higher power at night and the 
> interference they caused. 

What I complain the most about are the stations that are running *illegally* high power at night. I can only imagine that now there will be a *spate* of illegally high PSSA's being run. I'm sure that we will simply sign-off, as 3 watts is just completely worthless to us.

> It would appear that the FCC saw your 500 and 
> 290 watts as interference as well especially since it is on a class A 
> channel.

"Ratcheting"...? from 500 down to 3?! For crying out loud, we've been running that 500 watt PSSA for 19 years! Even at 500 watts, many evenings, WTWP still obliterates us at my home, 13 miles away in the major lobe. (I get 7mv/m at day power, 5Kw, at my house. WTWP peaks between 5-10, and as much as 20 at night.)

In all seriousness, three watts is just absolutely useless! Literally, you won't be able to listen more than 1/4 mile away. Perhaps some evening I can test this... set the TX for the putrid 3 watts, then wait until PSSA time, and drive out of the driveway... and see how far I get before WTWP drowns us out. I probably won't even get to the end of our street. (About a 1/3 mile-long dead end.)

> Now that being said, I wonder how they will deal with a class A 
> that intentionally radiates 500 watt digital sidebands into other class 
> A channels. If you get a lawyer, I would wait for 24 hour IBOC and use 
> that as the precedent.

I don't forsee 24 hour IBUZ happening. Ever. I do see feeding frenzies for the lawyers, though.

Willie...

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