[BC] Station sign-on time/power

[Rex Hyum Lee]

Hear!  Hear!.....Amen!
_Rx.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <WFIFeng at aol.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:59 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] Station sign-on time/power


> In a message dated 2/25/2007 10:27:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Bailey, 
> Scott" <sbailey at nespower.com> writes:
>
>>I'm sick of hearing about interference complaints
>>where it's not causing the person complaing about
>>the interference a problem.
>
> Ok, and I'm sick of station operators who don't give a rat's posterior for 
> the Rules and for obeying the Law! >:[
>
>>  If they are not on
>>your channel, interfering with your station, then
>>mind your own business on go on.
>
> If I were to carry this logic further, then if I see someone breaking into 
> my neighbor's house, I should mind my own business and go on? Hey, they're 
> not on MY property! They're not interfering with MY house! Right?
>
> HOGWASH!!
>
> Is the implication, here, one of condoning blatant, flagrant violation of 
> the Rules? IE: ILLEGAL activity is to be winked at and ignored?
>
> I think not.
>
>>We've got enough problems with AM as it is
>>already
>
> Yes, we sure do... and what we do *not* need is a growing wave of stations 
> operating with illegally high powers well outside their authorized hours!
>
>>we don't need what I call the "AM Police" running
>>thier mouths and stiring up fights
>
> What we *do* need is proper enforcement of the FCC Rules. If stations 
> obey, they have nothing to fear. If they break the law, willfully and 
> repeatedly, then they deserve to get "busted". Simple as that.
>
> I know that I do my fair share of griping about the restrictions of having 
> to operate Daytime Only... and the recent change to DST with will rip away 
> an hour of Morning Drive programming for three whole weeks... several 
> suggestions I have gotten were downright shameful, IMHO! One suggested 
> signing-on anyway. Another suggested a less blatant violation, to use the 
> special 290 watt April pre-sunrise for those weeks in March. That is not 
> authorized on our license, so it's not going to happen. Plain and simple.
>
> I will reiterate my original point: What gives the Daytimer in the next 
> town the right to flout the law and sign-on when they feel like it, while 
> the other stations continue to obey the Rules? Breaking the Rules is 
> wrong. If there is anything *I* can do about it, I will. Call me "Police" 
> if that makes you feel better. I prefer the term "Law-Abiding Citizen". 
> Thank you.
>
> Willie...
>
>
>
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