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

[RichardBJohnson@comcast.net]

In New England many stations don't even know if they are on-the-air. 
Last Sunday morning I hit WCRB  (99.5 MHz on my truck radio. There 
was no audio from 9:00 AM through 12:15 PM. The audio probably failed 
before that. The radio station didn't answer their telephone either. 
Now, I may be naive. I thought that if a STL failed, the transmitter 
was required to be off-the-air. I guess it's okay to have three hours 
of dead air nowadays. Nobody is watching.
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Richard B. Johnson
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  -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com>
 > ------ 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.
 >