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...investigations' conducted this fall, the radiation output of WHRB was found to be, at maximum points, 20 times as strong as regulations require. According to Doane and Network technical director George H. Nealy '51, cutting down to present FCC standards would virtually nullify the reception of the station. WHRB officials sent a proposal for an alternative arrangement permitting more power to the Commission last spring, but have received no reply...
...college stations with which I am familiar," Doane disclosed yesterday afternoon, "are, under FCC regulations, broadcasting illegally. Unfortunately, WHRB was one of the first investigated and is, as far as I know, the first one the Commission has clamped down...
...alternatives offered, according to Doane, are 1) to make a stab at broadcasting within FCC requirements, 2) to wait for the April hearings, 3) to hope for an extension, or 4) to become a commercial station, requiring an impossible outlay of money...
...Federal Communications Commission has put the Harvard Radio Network out of business. Saturday morning WHRB was told by the FCC that if the station couldn't comply with government rules limiting radiation, it would have to go off the air immediately. So at midnight Saturday WHRB interrupted its reading period jazz orgy and said goodbye...
...difficult to understand the FCC's procedure. Many other college stations are admittedly operating over FCC power limits, a fact which Commission engineers must certainly have noticed in a routine check of all neighboring student networks last October. Three weeks later the engineers inspected WHRB again and found the station was still radiating too much; most other stations were inspected only once. Apparently because WHRB received two checkups it was singled out for FCC action. This does not represent just and uniform government regulation...