It really depends upon where you are, and whom the receiving audience is. If you are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy out in the boonies, you maybe on for years without notice. However, in a metro area, or even a small town with a station manager, engineer, or a so-called concerned citizen, who is a real douche, chances would be pretty good since the FCC will respond to complaints. And? 1W not reaching anywhere? Really??? In the right location and elevation, 25mW and a well tuned quarter wave ground plane can cover a whole town. Push a watt behind that, and you can cover for miles. This all depends on antenna efficiency, elevation, and geography. The other thing is, are you choosing a FREQ that is really empty? That's hard to do in many areas. Another thing is which FCC office has a bad reputation. In Alaska, the FCC has a reputation of being really tough up there, even thought most of that state is wide open. Since there's so much air radio depending traffic up there, the Anchorage FCC office wants the aviation band as interference free as possible. So, lots of variables. I'll tell ya what, this so-called AM Revitalization Program of letting every AM station litter the FM band with their own FM translators certainly has not helped things for either free radio, and especially licensed LPFM.