[BC] Noisy Audio Chain

[Ron Cole]

It is illegal for an AM Daytimer to not go off the air at night.
Its seems obvious that they are experiencing technical problems that need to
be fixed and probably will only be addressed with the FCC pays them a visit.

Ron


On 12/4/06, Bailey, Scott <sbailey at nespower.com> wrote:
>
> I thought that it was illegal for a station to do that.  There was a
> daytimer in the 90's around here that was fined for leaving on their 5
> KW carrier on all night.
>
> Scott
>
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>
> In a message dated 12/3/2006 6:46:58 PM Central Standard Time,
> mwam at box311.net writes:
> Quite often WWII 720 leaves their carrier on all night. There
> is so much high frequency noise on the signal that I can hear
> it eight to ten kHz on either side of center. It sounds like
> there is a blank tape playing. There is also some sixty and I
> think one hundred twenty Hz hum on the signal.
> If this is an AM station as I recall they have to ID the carrier once
> per
> hour.  FM's at one time were granted a wavier on the ID rules if they
> ran
> subcarriers 24 hours and main programming signed off the air.
>
> Dave
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