[BC] FCC Modulation measurements

[WFIFeng at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/03/2007 6:49:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dpuopolo at usa.net writes:

> Victor Taglifaro came to inspect a client's station. Victor is one of
>  those FCC guys that understands how things are. He's uses the rules as a
>  guide, realizing that some times things can't explicitly follow the rules. 
> If
>  you can make your case, he will listen-as opposed to being a traffic cop
>  writing FCC tickets. We sat and talked a bit about the 'good old days' of
>  broadcasting (He told me how bad it is out there and how he sees things 
> thses
>  days that no TRUE engineer would let happen).  Alas, Victor is retiring 
this
>  year. Another one of the good guys gone.

He inspected WFIF (surprise visit) about 10 years ago. The ONLY thing he 
found was a missing Ownership Report, which was faxed down within 2 minutes. 
Inspection passed. :) He even said, "This is not the same radio station I inspected 
13 years ago!" (That was before Bill Blount bought it.)

The funny thing about that inspection was that I was talking to our former 
Sales Manager just the day before... and I was telling him that I like to keep 
everything "ship-shape" JUST IN CASE the FCC ever comes to inspect. Needless to 
say, when I got a call on the intercom that the FCC was there, I was like, 
"Yeah right!! Don't pull my leg like that!" The voice came back, all serious. 
"Willie. They're really here." so I said "Tell them I'll be there in one 
minute!" and quickly finished-up what I was in the middle of. Then I swallowed hard, 
went upstairs, and greeted Vic.

He's a great guy. Who will be taking his place?

Willie...



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