Topband: 1820 BCB

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

Of course Roger has an advantage ... he can complain to Industry Canada
(Canadian equivalent of the FCC) about the interference and ask them to
make an international complaint to the FCC.

Nothing will move the FCC more quickly and an international complaint!
They still take international interference complaints seriously.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 12/21/2011 9:46 PM, rfoxwor1 at tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>
> ---- Roger Parsons<ve3zi at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> I am over 500 miles north-east of WDOR, and their spurious signal on 1820 kHz is over S9 with me in the past week or so. I do not believe this is intermod as the station modulation is quite intelligible, and it cannot be a coincidence that their fundamental is 910 kHz. It is also extremely unlikely to be generated locally to me as my closest AM broadcast station is more than 100 miles away.
>>
>> I will also send a polite email to the station.
>>
>> 73 Roger
>> VE3ZI
>
> Unfortunately the new normal in broadcasting, especially for
> regionals like this, who typically run 1 to 5 kW, is to
> arrange for a contract engineer who might 'cover' as many as
> a dozen stations, and generally be 'on call' to address specific
> issues. What this means is that there might be a considerable
> length of time before your inquiry may be dealt with by the station.
>
> Many smaller stations are partly to fully automated now and there
> may be no one to even answer the phone. WDOR is named for Door
> County, a rural area on Lake Michigan. Many AM's in such an
> environment struggle to even survive these days. Their incentive
> to worry about harmonics may be lessened by the realization that
> the FCC doesn't seem now to care that much. Unless they did something
> to cause  _another_station_  to complain about them to the FCC.
> That's what gets their attention.
>
> The days of a dedicated 'chief' at any particular station are
> long gone, except (for the most part) for the largest 1A 50 kw-U
> stations in the largest markets. This parallels the FCC's main
> enforcement actions these days (access to the 'public file',
> locking of gates around bases of towers, and emergency alert
> logging). The lawyers now run the FCC and they enforce that
> which they understand, and that which generates revenue for
> minimal effort.
>
> Many stations do radiate harmonics from time to time, but most of them
> being outside ham bands, are noticed only by SWL's who DX them
> as a 'challenge'.
>
> Let us know if they respond.
>
> Bob k2euh (ex- 'first phone' P1-5-6331, way back when ...)
>
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