Re: Interference issue

[Jibguy@aol.com]

The rules are:

When a station has a new facility (new station, or existing station going 
with a new C.P. [construction permit], be it higher or lower or same power 
but from a different site), the station is responsible for solving all 
interference problems within a year after its new 'facility' begins to be 
used.   This also applies to any station which has been off the air for a 
year or more and goes back on with the same facility (such as WKBR back in 
1995).   

    After that first year, the station's only responsibility is to INFORM the 
people with interference problems HOW to solve it, such as tell them the name 
of the filter, and (optional) where you (not the staiton) can buy one.

    Some stations, in their interest in being a 'good neighbor' ,  buy the 
filters in bulk quantity and mail one out to anyone who calls with a 
complaint.     (If 1510 did this, which they might have,  they would have had 
to order a truckload of them!)  Or perhaps a truckload was needed just for 
the first year!

    Sean's parents' problem is likely interference brought on by an unknown 
source, acting in tandem with 1260's signal.   Some of the newer phones 
available these days (many of them) have little or no interference-protecting 
circuitry.

-----jibguy


In a message dated 5/10/01 8:59:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Sptseditor@aol.com writes:

<<  I believe according to FCC regs radio stations are only responsible for 
abatement measures (filters on phones, toasters, fillings, and anything else 
that rattles with the station's programming) for a one-mile radius from the 
transmitter site. 
  >>