However, if you compose your posts in any other word processing program, such as Word that may have spell check and other editorial features, that should take care of most routine typos. Then you should be able to cut paste your copy into the text boxes for posting with no difficulty.

by Frederick Clarkson on Thu Feb 05, 2009 at 05:42:22 PM EST
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Several years ago my wife and I used to like to listen to a radio station put out by one of the R.C. dioceses.  The local (at the time Assembly-owned) radio station next to them on the dial would often run their station in such a way that we could not clearly receive the station we wanted to (I'm pretty sure they got fined for doing so, and they suddenly sold the station- making me suspicious that they got in real trouble).  

At the same time, there was a low-power Baptist-owned radio station that obviously was running too much power, and they made it impossible to receive the RC station in the eastern part of the county (and in some southern parts). (I later heard said station also got fined, and possibly even taken off the air for deliberately trying to jam the RC station.)  That station had lots of hellfire and damnation programming.

I overheard a recent conversation about this very topic between a radio engineer and another person (on this very topic) ... indicating that this is a very common practice- running way more power than their license allows.  The problem is, the licenses are set up so that a station's "footprint" doesn't interfere with another that is near or on the same frequency.  (Nothing was said about deliberate jamming, just that many of these types of stations run too much power and often the wrong antenna types).

Indeed, I remember hearing about radio station "wars" (from the 80's and early 90's) where Bible pounder stations would try to jam or drown out other stations that had programming they didn't approve of (on the AM bands).  They'd do it by running far more power than allowed- and unless someone brought it to the attention of the FCC, they'd get away with it.

by ArchaeoBob on Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 12:44:23 PM EST
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by Frederick Clarkson on Thu Feb 05, 2009 at 05:39:21 PM EST
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