WHMP Northampton

[Dan.Strassberg]

My guess is that, in making the translator-ID rule, the FCC bowed to
pressure from multiple broadcasters to make it appear to the general public
that they (the public, that is) are listening to the station whose call
letters they can hear, even though the call letters the public can hear
aren't the ones in the FCC's database. It might be useful, however, if the
FCC database included fields for both legal ID and "IDs as," where "IDs as"
would be the audible ID. Something tells me, however, that such a database
enhancement is unlikely to be made within the lifetime of anyone who can
read this today.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale H. Cook" <radiotest@plymouthcolony.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: WHMP Northampton


> At 01:28 AM 10/3/2013, A Joseph Ross wrote:
>
>>... though I don't understand what good a legal ID is that can't be heard.
>>Who can hear it?
>
> The FSK ID in Morse code is not intended for the public - it is intended
> for the Enforcement Bureau. I don't quite understand it either.
>
> Dale H. Cook, Market Chief Engineer, Centennial Broadcasting,
> Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
> http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html
>