Mark Zenier wrote:

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dxAce wrote:

Mark Zenier wrote:
Somebody want to tell Delano to turn it down a notch, or at least not warm
the damn things up nine minutes early. On both 5995 and 5975, yesterday
at 7:51 PDT, there were very strong carriers (S9+30 on a radio that only
goes to S9+40) which eventually became the BBC in Spanish and English.

Stomped all over the BBC English from French Guiana.

Perhaps, but the 5975 broadcast is not directed to you,

No kidding, if it's this strong off the back of the antenna, what's it
like the other way? What's the front/back ratio of those antennas?

I understand that they're trying to reach Montevideo with that
broadcast, but still...

But it'll be doing the same thing in whatever part of the target area
that has overlaps from the two transmission patterns. Having nine
minutes of dead carrier isn't helping anybody, except maybe some station
engineer trying to baby an old transmitter. I'm sure the local power
company doesn't mind the extra billing. It's just taxpayer's money...

Of course! Why not bill the feds for an extra nine minutes of your time
and see them pay it without question? I wonder if PG&E (the local power
company) is in on it too. Waste all you want, we'll print more! It must
be great to be a government, ratchet up the tax rates until you're
squeezing blood from a rock and use the army to force people to pay up,
then when the people complain about being broke just crank up the
presses. Of course the funny money game will eventually reach the point
of diminishing returns, and then you get another Argentina, but by then
the fat cats have bled the treasury dry and flown off to their private
islands in the South Pacific leaving the little people to clean up the
mess.


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