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PRE-SUNRISE/POST SUNSET

First, have your communications attorney find out if your station ever has had one. A lot of stations were issued PSSA's for such patheticly low power levels that they never accepted them.

If your station never was given a PSSA, you will have to have a PE look at your station's allocation as it exists currently and determine if a PSSA is possible. If the possibility exists, the PE and your attorney should be able to determine which FCC form you have to fill out to apply for it.

Then, it's a matter of sending the application with the appropriate fee, and voila! Oh yes, you'll have to figure out a way to modify your transmitter to put out the power level they specify.

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
Would a previously authorized PSSA be recognized, if never exercised? Or might it be useful for reference in new applicaton?
How long does such an authorization last, if granted and/or not exercised?

And unless your audience is holding its breath, waiting to see if school is cancelled, it's almost not worth it.
If they are, they will hear you through mud at 10 miles, if at all.
Good luck and God bless. On the other hand, someone 300 miles away may hear you, by craziest chance.
 
gr8oldies said:
I need to know how to apply for a Post Sunset Authorization (operation til 6pm or two hours past sunset). Thanks!
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Call the AM services bureau at the FCC to find this out. Most AM stations (with the exception of the few Clear Channel AM's still on the dial) were granted PSSA authorization in the mid 80's. Chances are if you are a non-clear channel AM, you already have it. Double-check to make sure.
 
I was thinking they said at the time of it being a matter of "use it or lose it". I think most stations on clear channels that are outside the 750 mile contour of the primary station were authorized some power level of PSSA.
 
semoochie said:
I was thinking they said at the time of it being a matter of "use it or lose it". I think most stations on clear channels that are outside the 750 mile contour of the primary station were authorized some power level of PSSA.
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I think the "use it or lose it" provision applied to when the low-power full-nighttime grants were handed out in the late 80's. I don't think that applied to PSSA, since that's different from nighttime authorization.
 
One of our staffers talked to an FCC rep who seemed to say it was a fairly simple process, but I didn't know the form, if any. we have 272 watts pres-unrise, 1000 day and 34 night at present.
 
I believe you'll find that the second hour of PSSA is equivalent to authorized nighttime power for the former daytimers. I'm pretty sure that "use it or lose it" was when they began PSSA operation because we had to put in a power reducer. Otherwise, we might not have bothered.
 
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