[BC] Split level combine and the loss of the analog-only transmitter

[Robert Meuser]

Rich

You are way off base on this one.  Emergency operation is an emergency 
for the station not the public. The discussion focuses on the emergency 
of loosing the analog portion of a combined Analog digital operation and 
not a public emergency.

R


Rich Wood wrote:

> ------ At 02:38 AM 4/21/2007, Xmitters at aol.com wrote: -------
>
>>   Clearly, for non-emergency operation the digital power must be reduced
>>   to maintain the mask, but, if the operation is declared and justified
>>   as emergency operation, and there are no rules for what you ask
>>   specificly, it's a good question ! Reasonable and prudent men would 
>> allow the full power HD level, but the
>>   Commission is full of lawyers, who are not known to be reasonable,
>>   nor prudent.
>
>
> It seems reasonable and prudent men would know there are so few 
> digital receivers that, even if the digital power were allowed to go 
> to analog levels, virtually no one would hear it. How can anyone make 
> the case at this point in time that digital can be used for emergency 
> communication? New England has recently had major flooding. Every IBUZ 
> station here has had long periods with no digital operation. If we 
> relied on it we'd all have been washed away.
>
> Rich
>
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