Is any attention paid to Pre-sunrise powers? I don't hear anything
different happening at 6am and haven't for years. It's just another
top-of-the-hour, as far as I can hear. Years ago, on regional
frequencies, station sign-ons at 6:00 would pile on in layers, often
covering the usual night dominant on the channel. Things sound no more
(or less) congested now at 6:03 than they did at 5:57.
Critical Hours restrictions have been ignored for years. When I worked
at the Knoxville stations on 1580 and 1180 in the late 80's, nobody
knew what I was talking about when I mentioned them to staff, including
the owners.
I strongly suspect these power restrictions exist only in some musty
paper file in the bowels of the FCC building, as well as in the
idealistic imaginations of the DXing brotherhood.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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