Q5: Response Time: How long do I have to respond and correct a transmitter malfunction?
A: The personnel designated by the licensee to control the transmitter must have the capability to turn the transmitter off at all times, or include an alternate method of taking control of the transmitter which can terminate the station’s operation within 3 minutes. See 73.1350(b)(2). An example of a system of this type, independent of automatic equipment, would be equipment to turn the transmitter off when the studio-to-transmitter (STL) link is turned off by personnel at the studio. This short response time is intended to cover those rare instances where the malfunctioning equipment may be posing a threat to public safety, e.g., by causing interference to a land mobile based emergency radio system.
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That is interesting running coach. I thought the FCC had relaxed regulations so much that operators were now only required to have automation equipment that could “reliably” turn off the transmitter by remote. What you quoted seems to imply that someone must still be at the actual transmitter (which is usually miles away from where the actual radio or TV station is located).
Of course there always had to be someone at the transmitter because that is where the real potential for interference lies. At the studio there’s only the STL (studio-to-transmitter link) and that’s just microwave (or whatever the kids use these days)
A lot of times there are transmitters for multiple radio/TV stations grouped together in one place (like Sutro Tower in San Francisco or the Willis Tower in Chicago) so you could get away with having one person there—essentially a night watchman with a FCC license—who can shut down one or all of the transmitters in an emergency so they don’t interfere with emergency police/military/etc. communications (a very rare event because civil radio/TV transmission normally works just fine alongside emergency communications).
The time changes were always easy to remember when I was young – last Sunday in April, last Sunday in October. The last time I experienced a local time change was in early 1991, when I was living in Albuquerque. I can’t remember if it had moved to March by then. But Thailand and Hawaii do not change their clocks – few if any in East, Southeast or South Asia does – but I do find it necessary to keep track of the time differences between where I am and those places that do change.
It would be interesting to see figures for the same period in Indiana, for the increase in revenues enjoyed by retail establishments, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys etc., during the Daylight Saving months, over the revenues during the equivalent period the year before DST was adopted.
Profits go up for many retail and entertainment businesses, when it’s still light when the majority of workers clock out–they are much more likely to go out and spend money, than they are when it’s dark at clock-out time.
—I’m looking for a clean cite, but most articles focus on the health impacts of the CHANGE in time. Those impacts would disappear, of course, if we just stopped switching back and forth from Standard to DST. (The change is the source of most ‘I hate DST’ rants; just have DST year-round, and all those negatives would vanish.)
This article has some citations for increased spending when light lasts later:
Yes, those who go to work very early would like it to be light when they set out. That’s understandable. But it’s impossible that all shifts can take place in the same light conditions. Someone will always be going to work in the dark.
My grandmother hated it anytime anyone would bring up “the farmers” when talking about DST. She grew up on a dairy farm and the cows still have to be milked the same time everyday regardless of what the clocks say.
I am very sorry to have to tell you that the TV was my favorite part of not changing. Often there were a couple of programs that should have been on at the same time, but I couldn’t watch them both. However because of the time thing, one would end up being on at 8 and the other at 9, so I’d watch one, and then get to watch the other. I loved it! I wish I could remember more, because maybe I’m confused about something here, but I remember my husband and I always saying to each other as the date got closer, well, now the TV is going to be all screwed up. We really appreciated what you did
I always thought the idea is not that they can change their schedules, but that the rest of us can change our time to accommodate them.
Not that I’m saying it’s a good idea. I honestly don’t get what would be wrong with keeping DST year round. I get how it can be better in the summer, but not why it’s better to change back in the winter.
That was one thing I never liked about the SD column. The other thing was that it was too short and glib, but I guess that was a different time. I want sources and actual data about how well it works.
Where I live, which isn’t that far north despite being in Canada, not changing the clocks would either result in sunrise at 4:41AM in the summer or 8:51AM in the winter. I’m happy to keep it.
Daylight Saving Time gets an inordinate amount of bad press, considering how relatively simple it is to effectuate it. I mean, seriously, folks, in March you lose an hour of sleep one night. You can plan ahead for that if you’re smart. In Nov. you get an extra hour of sleep; you can take advantage of that if you like. How is this a big deal?
As for when the sun comes up relative to going to work/school, that’s so all over the place anyway, given the size of the time zones. When I lived in Toledo, the sun came up late, but stayed up late in the evening; DST wasn’t really needed, and was a pure pain for driving to early work, or for picking kids up on school buses. But where I grew up, in Ridgecrest, CA, the sun came up early, and went down early (not helped by having 8000’ Sierra Nevada peaks West of town!), and DST was a Godsend. And don’t even get me started on the zaniness that is the Central Time Zone, where 75% of what they do is an hour “early”, so it matches with the Eastern Time Zone, and it’s that crucial 25% that screws everything up… :dubious:
go chill yourself, I hate the change both directions but especially going forward. We have a right to complain. one hour my foot, it’ll take me two weeks to adjust.
I remember while we always hated the bars closing an hour earlier that one night in April, a lot of bars threw parties to celebrate staying open an extra hour in October.
Or did the bars close early? The change is at 2am? That was closing time in my West Texas town, so I guess that didn’t matter after all. But they did stay open an hour more in October, because 2am magically became 1am. I worked the graveyard shift in the 1970s though, and I recall getting stiffed once a year and an extra hour once a year.
Imagine if we had two days each year in which people were required to walk backwards for 24 hours. Yeah, you could plan it out. Yeah, you would buy new shoes to make it easier. Yeah, you can tell people to chill.
Put the entire world on GMT-0 switch to 24 hour clock, and set schedules accordingly as needed.
If i guy in Glascow says hey lets teleconf at 13:45, no math needed, at 13:45 i teleconf with him, then i go back to bed, and he goes to lunch.