Hi Jim,
The AM radio stations are required to do the annual measurements per the
current FCC rules and I have indeed been shown the measurement data at
transmitter sites I have visited. The FCC does not do the measurements,
they just require them to be done and the small stations I have gone to
actually hire out the measurements, therefore the gutting of the FCC really
should have no impact on the annual inspections I mentioned which I
probably should have called annual measurements. I think I've heard chief
engineers refer to the measurements as their NRSC measurements (NRSC stands
for National Radio Systems Committee), and someone who is currently in the
AM broadcast industry should probably jump in and provide more accurate
information than what I've provided.
Don (wd8dsb)
On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 1:01 AM Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> On 1/6/2023 9:52 PM, Don Kirk wrote:
> > Broadcasters are held to some very stringent spurious emission limits and
> > the stations actually go through a periodic inspection to show
> compliance.
>
> This was certainly true when I worked in broadcasting 60 years ago, but
> With deregulation (during the '70s?) and a gutted FCC, it may be a thing
> of the distant past. I'd like to learn that I'm wrong, but my impression
> is that the FCC is far more concerned with a wardrobe malfunction than
> an equipment malfunction.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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