[AMRadio] Cheap and Not So Cheap AM BC Stations

[Bob, W4WSZ]

What Mike says is 110% true....you can take his remarks to the 
bank...........

de Bob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <k5xu at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio" <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 7:15 PM
Subject: [AMRadio] Cheap and Not So Cheap AM BC Stations


> At the risk of beating this almost dead horse at least one
> more good whack, here are my two cents.
>
> First, If you really want an AM station, look around your
> area and determine how many are still showing as licensed,
> but are not currently transmitting. In most metro areas, you
> will find at least one, sometimes 2 or 3 within a given
> window of license inactivity.
>
> Sometimes, an owner will almost give them away just to get
> out from under the liability of the tower and equipment.
> Note, however, that the property they sit on is often of
> much more value to the owner than the station hardware, so
> you may not get the dirt in the deal.
>
> Second, the large conglomerates are notorious for shutting
> down an AM station, then bringing it back on the air just in
> time to keep the license from going inactive.
>
> If you can catch them near their license renewal, and
> provide sufficient proof that a particular station has not
> been operating that minimum amount of time, you have a good
> chance of getting a license through such a challenge, or at
> the very least making some distant owner squirm, and call
> you names that can't be mentioned here.
>
> If you do in fact end up with a license, that license by
> itself is often worth more than the equipment required to
> broadcast.
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> Mike Duke, K5XU
> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
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