[BC] Regulations For AM Station DX Te sts

[Steve]

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From: "AM Lover" <amfan at collins21e.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:05 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] Regulations For AM Station DX Te sts


> I guess there just can be no fun left in broadcasting!  What does it hurt
to do a DX test on day pattern and power?
> Too much government in my opinion if this is something they worry about. A
million  Years ago I did several  DX
> tests like that, I never thought once it was illegal.  But that was back
in the good old days.

You've got that right. A lot of fun has gone down the drain. And those tests
you did? I'm sure the station on the same frequency a million miles away
didn't even hear you running the tests. I used to run our non-D 5KW rig at
night when the directional site was having problems. I NEVER heard from the
station on the same freq. EVER! They covered me up and served their
community!
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?

When I was going to college in the 60's a buddy and I would have discussions
about all this directional crap and saw it as ridiculous. He would say...Let
everyone stay at their daytime power and Non-D and have at it. When I think
of stations who's (I worked for that 12 tower jobby in Detroit) pattern is
such you have whistle in the monitor at the studio then I have to question
the validity of all this directional stuff. Also, stations who are
directional and have to get a variance of the rules because they can't cover
the city of license with enough signal! Makes sense to me.

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.

Steve