Re: Fwd: Ninety Watts? I Think Not

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@tmail.com>]

I can confirm WROL was blasting into Sturbridge last night at 930 PM

Also was surprised to hear WCAP booming in between Hartford and Exit 9. 
Usually WTRY is strong there.


On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 4:51PM -0500, Aaron Read wrote:
>
>> To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 13:01:31 -0400
>> From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
>> X-Sent-Mail: off
>> (snip)
>> kept selling stuff.  I really wanted a legal ID by WROL,
>> but the time moved to 10:01, and still the program in progress kept 
>> going.
>> Then at almost 10:02, the other 950's seemed to subside
>> and when the WROL ID ("A Service of Salem Communications")
>> came on, WROL clearly overrode the 950's  in Utica, NY
>> and Philadelphia.  Ninety-watts...I think not.
>>
>> Laurence Glavin
>> Methuen, MA
>
>
> IIRC Ken Carberry still owns WROL, right?   I think he's also got a 
> history of not caring too much about following the rules and/or 
> performing proper maintenance on his properties.  I vaguely remember 
> something about an LPTV in Maine skirting the rules or something...
>
> If you've sent a complaint via registered mail to his listed address 
> (to get confirmation of receipt) and gotten nowhere, document your 
> findings and send 'em to the other stations WROL is supposed to power 
> down to protect.  Preferably to their engineers as well as the owners, 
> if you can.
>
> Still no luck?  Complain to the local FCC office in Quincy.   Present 
> as much documentation and hard evidence as you can.   It make take a 
> few months, but eventually you might get somewhere.   Simply calling 
> and griping will likely get you nowhere...you're much better off if you 
> can provide actual quantifiable evidence.
>
> Whether or not you are an "affected party" in this issue is 
> questionable....unless the affected stations (or their listeners) 
> themselves are complaining, your involvement in the matter is not very 
> relevant and there's little you can do.   OTOH, you could be attempting 
> to tune in these other stations via skywave and have a legitimate 
> complaint.  The FCC takes a dim view of DX'er complaints, but when the 
> DX'er is showing that a licensed facility is violating the rules, 
> that's a little different.
>
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