ThaDood Wrote:
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> Oh yeah? Well check out all of these TIS stations
> that have sprung up within the last couple of
> years in WV,
> [fjallfoss.fcc.gov]
> neering_search_out.cfm
> Huh, interesting since all these communities are
> suppose to be really hurting for $$$$$$. They
> have had to spend at least $10K per station if
> they bought them all brand new, and FCC certified.
> Nearest one to me is Ripley, WV, about 40 miles
> from me. I've heard the 1620KHz one in Bridgeport,
> WV. It was in mid-May, yet played a loop of winter
> weather prepairness. Hmmm, wonder if they ran heat
> stroke warnings in December?

It's not just communities hurting for investment whose governments should be ashamed for themselves at the waste of taxpayer money on superfluous TIS stations. Here in the affluent Washington DC metro area we have two so-called "highway advisory" stations run by the Montgomery County, Maryland government that have repeated the phrase "when conditions change, this station is updated" more or less non-stop for the past fifteen years. At the same time WTOP, the local powerhouse news outlet now using three full power FM licenses runs live traffic reports every ten minutes all day long. And the Montgomery County stations will never be a DX target, either, given the buzzy, distorted phone patch quality signal they put out.