Carl Blare

This program is devoted mainly to the continuation of the ALPB Meeting from Fri. Oct. 19, and there’s more to go on the next show, but we also find time for Low Power In the News with reports on Banana Belt Radio, KSOL and MICRO1700’s CC activity; Episode 7 “The Funny Side of Bonnie & Clyde”.

http://www.kdxradio.com/lph.html

The ALPB (Association of Low Power Broadcasters) Meeting of Oct. 19 barely got started in LPH#57 when it was time to close up shop.

Most of #58 is committed to the next part of the Meeting.

The ALPB (Association of Low Power Broadcasters) Meeting of Oct. 19 barely got started in LPH#57 when it was time to close up shop.

Most of #58 is committed to the next part of the Meeting.

But we also had time for Episode 6 of the Funny Side of Bonnie and Clyde by Gary Owens.

http://www.kdxradio.com/lph.html

Conventional radio programming tends to be set in its ways.

Local morning is viewed as a time when the population is getting up and heading to school or work.

Conventional radio programming tends to be set in its ways.

Local morning is viewed as a time when the population is getting up and heading to school or work.

But there are many other people who abstain from the clamor of “morning drive”, and they are the night shift workers coming home, the unemployed facing another day of planning, the retired audience at home to stay and many homemakers managing a growing family.

Worldround Radio is now providing an AM radio schedule for the non-drive-time audience during the early hours, and our transmitters carry programs for which no internet permission is obtained.

Then at 10 AM local time our two mp3 streams fire up and broadcasting to the continents of the world begins, all time zones, night and light, featuring programs with permissions attached.

Now almost a daily program, this Low Power Hour, No. 57, catches up with a few items that got bumped from recent shows by meetings of ALPB.

Now almost a daily program, this Low Power Hour, No. 57, catches up with a few items that got bumped from recent shows by meetings of ALPB.

This show opens with a curtain call by Lefty Gomez, following a succession of very positive responses to his appearance on No. 56.

We get to Part 3 of a Panel on “Policies for Advancing Independent Media” with speaker Carol Pearson, CEO of the National Association of Community Broadcasters, sponsored by Freepress.

“The Funny Side of Bonnie and Clyde” produced by Gary Owens, Episode 5.

A bit of a riff on Canadian low power rules, based on postings by Artisan Radio.

PCJ Media shares a blooper from their Media Network Plus Show in which Keith Perron and Paulette MacQuarry hit a giggling fit.

The first few seconds of the ALPB (Association of Low Power Broadcasters Meeting) from Friday October 19, 2012, to be continued in the next LPH programs.

The post-fix .org is often used for “not-for-profit” and “arts” organizations, so I call our ALPB a “dot org” with much reverence.

The post-fix .org is often used for “not-for-profit” and “arts” organizations, so I call our ALPB a “dot org” with much reverence.

There are other dot orgs working on radio projects, and I’m beginning to compile a registry of them for internal reference, so we can know what our colleagues are doing.

Professor John Anderson of Do-It-Yourself Media has posted about one, and I share:

free103point9 is a New York State-based nonprofit arts organization defining and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts by promoting artists and works with, for, and about the electromagnetic spectrum — the airwaves.

http://www.free103point9.org

Right at the gate let me say, don’t break the part 15 rules, not even given the means of doing so.

Right at the gate let me say, don’t break the part 15 rules, not even given the means of doing so.

What I am about to disclose will give owners of Wholehouse 2.0 located in the United States to go over the speed limit, and I say again, don’t do it.

I’ve done it, but only for test purposes so I’d have information to share in this posting. It was very brief, and I concealed all the clues.

It all started when I was trying to stabilize the FM signal between the Wholehouse 2.0 and two AM transmitters in different parts of the building, which got their audio feeds from FM radios. I had a long running blog which attracted plenty of good advice, and I solved the problem by very exact antenna placements.

But in the process of all that testing, I found the little round sticker hidden in the battery compartment. I also have instinct, just like kc8gpd said he has, and I sensed that something interesting was under that sticker. I had a pretty good idea what I’d find.

After all, the Wholehouse 2.0 is certified for use in both the U.S. and Canada, and that could only be true if the transmitter had two settings.

The small switch under the sticker provides the two settings.

Following are field strength readings taken with the TECSUN PL-310 radio, showing the comparative difference between U.S. power level and Canadian.

U.S. Field strength at 10-feet from the FM transmitting antenna: 40dBu

Canadian F.S. at 10-feet from the FM transmitting antenna: 60dBu

U.S. F.S. at 100-feet: 04dBu

Canadian F.S. at 100-feet: 11dBu

Even though the Wholehouse 2.0 is located indoors, I receive it well on the auto radio for more than two blocks.

But the main thing is I got my system to work properly using the U.S. setting.

If you try this, promise me you will be in Canada at the time, or I will rescind this posting.