WARNING: To AM Stations Cranking it up for Friday Night High School Football

[scottwmro]

Well fellow radio freaks: :

High School Football Season is at our front door and we KNOW what AM stations do that are classified as “Class D” AM stations do. Crank up the transmitter to their day power at night! Not all, but most of them do it.

For you GM’s and Owners of AM stations, you better watch what you’re doing AND STAY AT LEGAL POWER AT NIGHT! I know of one local station, that I will keep his name to myself that will be cranking up his “Muddy Water Five” and you will be able to hear the damn station over 30 states on Friday Nights between 7 PM and 10 PM.

Do not say I didn’t warn you, but Powell Way in Newberry, SC will be monitoring the band for the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and turning in stations that are not following the rules. All the DX guys will be monitoring with Powell. There will be one engineer out with his field strength meter monitoring stations!

Remember, the football players must follow the rules of playing Football, and we as broadcasters must follow the rules of broadcasting and setting good examples for our youth! If your not suppose to be at night, then stay off, and if you have Secondary Nighttime Authorization, operate what you’re suppose to! ;D

Well, back to my cave!

 

[SuperQ]

I know one station owner in SE Kentucky who will be nervous. No wait, he's been reported dozens of times and still does it.

 

[radiorob2.0]

But...but...but....airing High School sports at night using full power is another way broadcasters serve the community and help people, right? Besides, I'll be firing up the Superadio II and CCrane for some wonderful DXing opportunities.

 

[deltas69]

CCrane for some wonderful DXing opportunities.,,,i used to thar that advertised on art beels show..does it really bring in them thar fer away stations ??

 

[yorkie9]

Well fellow radio freaks: :

High School Football Season is at our front door and we KNOW what AM stations do that are classified as “Class D” AM stations do. Crank up the transmitter to their day power at night! Not all, but most of them do it.

For you GM’s and Owners of AM stations, you better watch what you’re doing AND STAY AT LEGAL POWER AT NIGHT! I know of one local station, that I will keep his name to myself that will be cranking up his “Muddy Water Five” and you will be able to hear the damn station over 30 states on Friday Nights between 7 PM and 10 PM.

Do not say I didn’t warn you, but Powell Way in Newberry, SC will be monitoring the band for the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and turning in stations that are not following the rules. All the DX guys will be monitoring with Powell. There will be one engineer out with his field strength meter monitoring stations!

Remember, the football players must follow the rules of playing Football, and we as broadcasters must follow the rules of broadcasting and setting good examples for our youth! If your not suppose to be at night, then stay off, and if you have Secondary Nighttime Authorization, operate what you’re suppose to! ;D

Well, back to my cave!

Dang - with all those extra people patrolling AM Friday night looking for the evil power law breakers, I bet ratings for some stations will go up as much as .025! Woo hoo! Better sell those ads now and make the most of the "boost".

 

[radiorob2.0]

CCrane for some wonderful DXing opportunities.,,,i used to thar that advertised on art beels show..does it really bring in them thar fer away stations ??

The CCrane does well but the Superadio II does a bit better in both audio and reception. The Superadio II is in retirement due to age so the CCrane does the work.

 

[oldies5161]

Well fellow radio freaks:

High School Football Season is at our front door and we KNOW what AM stations do that are classified as “Class D” AM stations do. Crank up the transmitter to their day power at night! Not all, but most of them do it.

For you GM’s and Owners of AM stations, you better watch what you’re doing AND STAY AT LEGAL POWER AT NIGHT! I know of one local station, that I will keep his name to myself that will be cranking up his “Muddy Water Five” and you will be able to hear the damn station over 30 states on Friday Nights between 7 PM and 10 PM.

Do not say I didn’t warn you, but Powell Way in Newberry, SC will be monitoring the band for the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and turning in stations that are not following the rules. All the DX guys will be monitoring with Powell. There will be one engineer out with his field strength meter monitoring stations!

Remember, the football players must follow the rules of playing Football, and we as broadcasters must follow the rules of broadcasting and setting good examples for our youth! If your not suppose to be at night, then stay off, and if you have Secondary Nighttime Authorization, operate what you’re suppose to!

Well, back to my cave!





I wonder who called Mr. Powell and asked him to monitor these AM stations? :

 

[Tibbs4]

To steal the line from the ATL Board...

How will this affect 106.7 The Fan?

 

[oldies5161]

Well fellow radio freaks: :

High School Football Season is at our front door and we KNOW what AM stations do that are classified as “Class D” AM stations do. Crank up the transmitter to their day power at night! Not all, but most of them do it.

For you GM’s and Owners of AM stations, you better watch what you’re doing AND STAY AT LEGAL POWER AT NIGHT! I know of one local station, that I will keep his name to myself that will be cranking up his “Muddy Water Five” and you will be able to hear the damn station over 30 states on Friday Nights between 7 PM and 10 PM.

Do not say I didn’t warn you, but Powell Way in Newberry, SC will be monitoring the band for the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and turning in stations that are not following the rules. All the DX guys will be monitoring with Powell. There will be one engineer out with his field strength meter monitoring stations!

Remember, the football players must follow the rules of playing Football, and we as broadcasters must follow the rules of broadcasting and setting good examples for our youth! If your not suppose to be at night, then stay off, and if you have Secondary Nighttime Authorization, operate what you’re suppose to! ;D

Well, back to my cave!

Correction: I wonder who called Mr Way and asked him to monitor these AM stations? :

 

[FreddyE1977]

Well fellow radio freaks: :

High School Football Season is at our front door and we KNOW what AM stations do that are classified as “Class D” AM stations do. Crank up the transmitter to their day power at night! Not all, but most of them do it.

For you GM’s and Owners of AM stations, you better watch what you’re doing AND STAY AT LEGAL POWER AT NIGHT! I know of one local station, that I will keep his name to myself that will be cranking up his “Muddy Water Five” and you will be able to hear the damn station over 30 states on Friday Nights between 7 PM and 10 PM.

Do not say I didn’t warn you, but Powell Way in Newberry, SC will be monitoring the band for the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and turning in stations that are not following the rules. All the DX guys will be monitoring with Powell. There will be one engineer out with his field strength meter monitoring stations!

Remember, the football players must follow the rules of playing Football, and we as broadcasters must follow the rules of broadcasting and setting good examples for our youth! If your not suppose to be at night, then stay off, and if you have Secondary Nighttime Authorization, operate what you’re suppose to! ;D

Well, back to my cave!

Correction: I wonder who called Mr Way and asked him to monitor these AM stations? :

Maybe he is not an FCC spook but just a recruiter for the Gamecocks??

I know an engineer who worked at a 1KW station with a very directional night signal.
He threw a huge party in 1980 because he was convinced that Ronald Reagan was going
to cut the FCC enforcement budget so low that in a year or two you'd be able to hear
his station on Jupiter.

Sadly, that never happened.

 

[Bob_Hudson]

Cranking up the power on Friday night for high school football games? Wow - we all know what that means: Spanish-language Banda stations all over the US will face potential interference.

Really, who gives a damn? The AM radio dial is pretty useless and and one you get above 1000 kHz you have a bunch of stations no one listens to and whose owners increasingly turn them off because they can't pay for the electricity to keep the transmitters going. Certainly the FCC should not be spending its limited resources on this most invaluable part of the spectrum.

 

[firepoint525]

This thread reminds me of how, when I worked for WHDM in McKenzie back in the early '90s, we were not allowed to play anything published, or even co-published by ASCAP because the station owed ASCAP for publishing fees! I didn't think ASCAP would even waste their time listening to us, because WHDM, for those of you who don't know, is a 500-watt AM at 1440 KHz, and was daytime only back when I was there. However, they had us convinced that ASCAP had spies in the area, just waiting for us to play one of "their" songs!

This station was so cheap that a listener in England sent them a tape he claimed was of one of our broadcasts, along with $1.00 to pay for the cost of postage to return the tape to him! They kept the tape, and the dollar! (By the way, there was nothing but gibberish on that tape! Oh, wait, maybe it was WHDM after all! :)

I wouldn't even mention this station by name at all, except that there is no one still there from the days when I worked there. The (then) owner, who was about 95 at the time (okay, maybe a slight exaggeration!), has long since died, the station was completely off the air for a couple of years, and has undergone a number of format, management, and ownership changes since then.

 

[vibe]

does the fcc have their priorites in order? Why not go after the urban pirates? I guess it's easier to pick off the perckerwoods in podunkville than go after people who are downright stealing.

 

[yorkie9]

I had to fire up the radio just now and, sadly, the Muddy Water Five is not on tonight. It's a tad early I think. I was hoping to hear the Green Wave booming on 1010 but am getting an ear full of CFRB tonight.

Me and the rest of the government spooks will have to check back in a couple of weeks when the regular season kicks off (The Wave will be right here in Lebanon - I guess I can walk up to the press box and tell them to start playing nice) ;D

 

[wkbam1690]

But...but...but....airing High School sports at night using full power is another way broadcasters serve the community and help people, right? Besides, I'll be firing up the Superadio II and CCrane for some wonderful DXing opportunities.

Wiill you be able to hear the game amid all the IBOC hash?

 

[oldies5161]

This thread reminds me of how, when I worked for WHDM in McKenzie back in the early '90s, we were not allowed to play anything published, or even co-published by ASCAP because the station owed ASCAP for publishing fees! I didn't think ASCAP would even waste their time listening to us, because WHDM, for those of you who don't know, is a 500-watt AM at 1440 KHz, and was daytime only back when I was there. However, they had us convinced that ASCAP had spies in the area, just waiting for us to play one of "their" songs!

This station was so cheap that a listener in England sent them a tape he claimed was of one of our broadcasts, along with $1.00 to pay for the cost of postage to return the tape to him! They kept the tape, and the dollar! (By the way, there was nothing but gibberish on that tape! Oh, wait, maybe it was WHDM after all! :)




I wouldn't even mention this station by name at all, except that there is no one still there from the days when I worked there. The (then) owner, who was about 95 at the time (okay, maybe a slight exaggeration!), has long since died, the station was completely off the air for a couple of years, and has undergone a number of format, management, and ownership changes since then.

I didnt know Chester Davis(WJKM,Hartsville) lived long enough to own the McKenzie station. ;D

 

[Evangelist]

Amazing how a thread about a topic of very limited interest is now on its second page.

 

[gr8oldies]

I worked at a small AM that owed ASCAP around 10,000 and even had a judgement against them for back fees. ASCAP never did issue a cease and desist and stop us from playing their music, however.

 

[deltas69]

Amazing how a thread about a topic of very limited interest is now on its second page...yes..it's a bored board ..at the moment...

 

[kenglish]

Sounds like the posters here have given approval for Scott to run his own station at daytime power, too.
A kilowatt sure beats 3 watts, don't it? ;D