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WSDQ 1190 Daytimer on Nights

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Icangelp

Here in Southwest Ohio I've been hearing daytimer, WSDQ/1190 5 KW, 1 KW critical hours, non directional antenna, for several nights now. Signal sometimes overrides WOWO, but is subject to severe fading. City of license is Dunlap, TN.

Country & Western and IDing as "1190 the Q".

Thought I would passi it along.
 
Icangelp said:
Here in Southwest Ohio I've been hearing daytimer, WSDQ/1190 5 KW, 1 KW critical hours, non directional antenna, for several nights now. Signal sometimes overrides WOWO, but is subject to severe fading. City of license is Dunlap, TN.

Country & Western and IDing as "1190 the Q".

Thought I would passi it along.
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I'm beginning to think that the FCC either can't (maybe due to lack of manpower) or won't enforce this type of infraction unless someone complains; about 20 miles n.w. of me, is a town by the name of Indian Rocks (FL) and there is a daytime only station - WYXB - 1520, that was on the air 24/7 for several years, before the FCC took action with a fine. The station claimed they had a transmitter problem and weren't able to power things up after turning the transmitter off, the FCC didn't buy that but did reduce the fine, then after several years of not knowing how ot fix it (or not caring), they fixed it and for several months, they were back to being a daytime only station....... now I have noticed for the last several months (at least 5) they have been on the air 24/7 again and to the best of my knowledge, nothing is being done.

WThere is another station in this area that would routinely forget to power down and change their directional pattern at night, but after someone made a formal compolaint to the FCC, the station started to remember to power down and to change their directional pattern at sunset.

btw- I'm surprised toat the FCC even allowed a station on 1190 in S>W> OHIO to broadcast even during the day.

DRT
 
drt said:
Icangelp said:
Here in Southwest Ohio I've been hearing daytimer, WSDQ/1190 5 KW, 1 KW critical hours, non directional antenna, for several nights now. Signal sometimes overrides WOWO, but is subject to severe fading. City of license is Dunlap, TN.

Country & Western and IDing as "1190 the Q".

Thought I would passi it along.
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I'm beginning to think that the FCC either can't (maybe due to lack of manpower) or won't enforce this type of infraction unless someone complains; about 20 miles n.w. of me, is a town by the name of Indian Rocks (FL) and there is a daytime only station - WYXB - 1520, that was on the air 24/7 for several years, before the FCC took action with a fine. The station claimed they had a transmitter problem and weren't able to power things up after turning the transmitter off, the FCC didn't buy that but did reduce the fine, then after several years of not knowing how ot fix it (or not caring), they fixed it and for several months, they were back to being a daytime only station....... now I have noticed for the last several months (at least 5) they have been on the air 24/7 again and to the best of my knowledge, nothing is being done.

WThere is another station in this area that would routinely forget to power down and change their directional pattern at night, but after someone made a formal compolaint to the FCC, the station started to remember to power down and to change their directional pattern at sunset.

btw- I'm surprised toat the FCC even allowed a station on 1190 in S>W> OHIO to broadcast even during the day.

DRT
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The station in question is from Dunlap, Tennessee.
 
"The station in question is in Dunlap,Tn" - end of quote ------

My mistake; I am humbled and will probably need to quit posting after midnight, when most of my braincells are either asleep or dead!! :)

Back to my other comments though, I am still amazed about the lack of enforcement in getting licensed stations to observe proper sign off times and/or power changes and directional pattern changes.

drt
st. petersburg,fl
 
WSDQ has been the primary on 1190 here in central South Carolina at night, with WOWO sneaking in once a while.
 
drt said:
"The station in question is in Dunlap,Tn" - end of quote ------

My mistake; I am humbled and will probably need to quit posting after midnight, when most of my braincells are either asleep or dead!! :)

Back to my other comments though, I am still amazed about the lack of enforcement in getting licensed stations to observe proper sign off times and/or power changes and directional pattern changes.

drt
st. petersburg,fl
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It happens. :)
 
This may be a little off the topic here, There is a small suburban station in the Chicago area that seems to have
no idea between a PRSA and Critical Hours. They start of in the winter months at 6 AM with their Critical Hours
power level, and then at local sunrise raise it to full power. This station is on a clear channel and has been
complained about by the 50KW station that shares the frequency. They also stay on full power until sunset.
Just for the record this station has no PRSA or PSSA. This has been going on for years and the FCC seems to
just ignore it.
 
TR1992 said:
This may be a little off the topic here, There is a small suburban station in the Chicago area that seems to have
no idea between a PRSA and Critical Hours. They start of in the winter months at 6 AM with their Critical Hours
power level, and then at local sunrise raise it to full power. This station is on a clear channel and has been
complained about by the 50KW station that shares the frequency. They also stay on full power until sunset.
Just for the record this station has no PRSA or PSSA. This has been going on for years and the FCC seems to
just ignore it.
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What station could this possibly be ???
 
TR1992 said:
This may be a little off the topic here, There is a small suburban station in the Chicago area that seems to have
no idea between a PRSA and Critical Hours. They start of in the winter months at 6 AM with their Critical Hours
power level, and then at local sunrise raise it to full power. This station is on a clear channel and has been
complained about by the 50KW station that shares the frequency. They also stay on full power until sunset.
Just for the record this station has no PRSA or PSSA. This has been going on for years and the FCC seems to
just ignore it.
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Is it AM 1030?
 
radioman148 said:
TR1992 said:
This may be a little off the topic here, There is a small suburban station in the Chicago area that seems to have
no idea between a PRSA and Critical Hours. They start of in the winter months at 6 AM with their Critical Hours
power level, and then at local sunrise raise it to full power. This station is on a clear channel and has been
complained about by the 50KW station that shares the frequency. They also stay on full power until sunset.
Just for the record this station has no PRSA or PSSA. This has been going on for years and the FCC seems to
just ignore it.
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Is it AM 1030?
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No it's not WNVR: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=5164 PSRA
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=2968 PSSA*

* This is odd that PSSA is not allowed, yet the station is authorized for 120 watts at night.

Actually WNVR is authorized for DA-3-U, and operated a few times at night with 120 watts from the Woodstock
site, and it was deemed a failure due to the interference from WBZ. Actually, if someone was paying attention to
geomagnetic data, when there is a major geomagnetic storm, skywave from distant stations like WBZ would be
weak or non-existent and they could run the 120 watts could almost make it to their COL! (of course this only
happens about less than 5 nights per year!)
 
Years ago, there was an AM-FM combo in my town where the AM side was a daytimer.
I won't mention any names, because the gentleman in question went on to have a
very successful career as a disc jockey in my town and elsewhere. I turned on a radio
tuned to the AM side about half an hour after sundown, and it was still beaming at me with a full-power signal. So I thought I'd call the station and alert them, thinking I'd be saving them from a big FCC fine. I called and this particular fellow was on the air. To my surprise, when I told him the guy acted as if I was crazy and refused to believe me, finally getting belligerent and hanging up the phone. So they continued to blast out on a frequency that they shared with a 50kW Class A station, until I phoned the nighttime guy when his shift started a couple of hours later. I explained that their AM had been running full-power since sundown, and when I called the jock on the prior shift thought I was nuts and hung up on me. The night guy said "put your receiver up to the radio and let me hear". I did and he responded "yeah, wow.....that's coming in 20/20, isn't it? Hey, thanks, man!" They went off within a few minutes. Guess there's just no helping some people!
 
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