[BC] Station Rules compliance (AOL Webmail)

[Robert Meuser]

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 02/26/2007 04:22:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, KC4QLP at aol.com writes:
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>>Otherwise I and more than likely, many others on here have way to much to do 
>> than to waste, worrying about something like this. 
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>If someone spends hours at a time scanning the dial, looking for "infractions", then yes, they are wasting too much time. I agree, completely. It is, indeed, time to "get a life" in that case.
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>However, if all it takes is punching-up a freqency on the car radio while enroute to work, that is *not* wasting time. When the station being checked has shown a consistent pattern of violation, year in and year out, they have a significantly overlapping coverage area, and even a slightly similar format, they are indeed "harming" us by being on the air more than an hour before authorized sign-on.
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Willie:

In most people's mind that is just sour grapes. You do yourself more 
harm than good by complaining about them. You certainly will not get far 
with the FCC.  If this was important to them, there would be more 
enforcement. If they don't care, how foolish does that make you look?  I 
know of a daytime station operating 24/7 over power all the time on a 
clear channel in the same state as the assigned class A station. 
Everyone thinks they a licensed that way and apparently no one including 
the class A really cares.  I could easily document this and turn them 
in. It would immensely help a friend who owns a competing station but 
even he thinks that is small minded and counterproductive in the long 
run. Don't get your shorts in a knot over something that goes over most 
people's head.

R

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