On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:49:31 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

Power isn't the only thing that is limited by a station license. The license
also stipulates a center frequency and a bandwidth. The station has to stay
within it's licensed radiated power, and bandwidth usage limits. If it does
that and meets a few other less important limits, it is legally compliant.

I'm still a little bit confused. Here's a quote from a website
discussing the "loudness wars" and on-air compression:

"With great precision, modulation monitors display modulation on a
meter as a percentage of the FCC limit and via a "peak flasher" to
show peaks the meter does not catch. "Staying legal" is as simple as
keeping the light from flashing. Some monitors even provide a numeric
count of how many times the FCC limit has been exceeded. "

Here's a link to the page:

http://tinyurl.com/2zlda

What is the "FCC limit" that the author is discussing? Does a
flashing light on the modulation monitor simply mean that the
station's licensed radiated power has been exceeded, or is there
another FCC-regulated characteristic of the signal that these monitors
are tracking?

Scott Gardner