[BC] Re: New PSRA/PSSA nightmare!! (WFIFeng at aol.com)

[r j carpenter]

Willie,

Look up WFED.  I'm sure that the changes imposed on it have attracted 
the attention of Bonneville Washington.  Their PSRA is being reduced 
from 500W to 270W for most months, and the "Limiting Station" is listed 
as XEG, not the cochannel 50kW in NYC, 200 miles away. The PSSA is also 
being reduced.

Bonneville seems to care about WFED's coverage since they recently filed 
to increase daytime power to 3.5kW. A lot of field measurements were 
required for the application. That couldn't have been cheap.

I've told this story before. When they bought the station a few years 
ago, neither Bonneville nor the FCC could find the authorization for 
500W PSRA.  The Bonneville people spent days as "researchers" at the 
National Archives annex at College Park before they found the paperwork. 
  You can see a fuzzy copy in their application to increase WFED's day 
power to 3.5kW.

I'm wondering how long before some daytimers get together and ask for an 
injunction against the FCC.  The grounds wound be "arbitrary and 
capricious" changes, perhaps based on flawed analysis. Let the 
lawyer-speak roll.

bob c.