Carl Blare

The Low Power Hour July 4th Special is available for download.

I thought maybe some stations might start celebrating this weekend, so I wanted to give plenty of lead time.

The Low Power Hour July 4th Special is available for download.

I thought maybe some stations might start celebrating this weekend, so I wanted to give plenty of lead time.

For Demand Radio instant listening the July 4th Special will become available closer to the actual holiday – I’ll give a mention here early in the week.

Program No. 37 finally gets to the WWV Tour, abbreviated from This Week in Radio Tech, the full version available at twit.tv.

Program No. 37 finally gets to the WWV Tour, abbreviated from This Week in Radio Tech, the full version available at twit.tv.

We discuss radio voices, and hear an early radio story from the best voice in the world, Ken Nordine of Chicago.

A touch of politics with our remote from the train station where a politician makes a whistle stop speech from the back platform on a cross country train.

More politics as Bob and Ray send Artie Skirmahorn to the mayor’s office.

Flash Frisbone # 13, another make-good from last show.

Listener phone calls and e-mails.

Doggradio Studio 2 reports on some goofy station names in Canada.

http://kdxradio.com/lph.html

This show was prompted by a tip from Tha Dood in West Virginia, previously the guest on LPH#19.

He noticed that we’ve never done a show about monitors, so we got to work and had the conversation.

This show was prompted by a tip from Tha Dood in West Virginia, previously the guest on LPH#19.

He noticed that we’ve never done a show about monitors, so we got to work and had the conversation.

The program shape-shifted as it went along, and several scheduled features got deferred until # 37.

Doggradio Studio 2 rolls through the program on an office chair.

There’s a new adventure series introduced.

Before I upload the program to the website I have some yard work to do.

Paul Thurst clued his Engineering Radio blog readers in to this great broadcast tower & antenna photo site

http://www.necrat.us/

While digging in the bottom of the junk drawer to locate old Blare OnAir programs for listing on the big index, we found a July 4th celebration produced in 2010, titled “Bombast.” A quick meeting was held upstairs in “The Imagination Room” where it was decided to hastilly re-package it as the first Low Power Hour Special, which will be uploaded in the next few days to the download site.

At the same time one of the part 15 stations has submitted a good idea for a program, and LPH#36 is being recorded this week.

It is the mission of the Low Power Hour to promote personal radio stations for every home in the land. The Homeland.

Most part 15 stations model their stations to be a lot like licensed stations. But one big difference is that we do not have “a city of license.”

Most part 15 stations model their stations to be a lot like licensed stations. But one big difference is that we do not have “a city of license.”

But licensed stations are not always in their city of license. Sometimes the transmitters are even in another state, with the “city of license” somewhere within their main signal pattern. Many studios are “out of town” in cities adjoining the city of license.

So how much liberty can we take with unlicensed radio? We are not required to specify any city at all, so could we get creative and name nearby towns that we like better than the one we’re in? There is no law prohibiting it under part 15.

For example, I am in a city that I refuse to name, about 3-blocks outside of St. Louis, Missouri, which many people would like to name because it’s a top market, but I want to minimize any association with it because the station image is more worldly and not at all typical of anything in St. Louis. One identifier I have used is to say we are in “Forest Park” because in fact this exact spot was originally part of Forest Park back in 1904 when the World’s Fair took place (the movie “Meet Me In St. Louis”). In fact now, today, Forest Park has it’s own postal code, so it is like a city in that way, except that I am not in that postal code.

The city I prefer to identify with is named Affton, Missouri, where my only surviving family member lives, and I like the small sized houses with no pretension about status. If you drew a straight line from Affton to Forest Park, KDX would be exactly in the middle.

Only in the part 15 world could such a small time question be discussed, but it’s ten times better than the stuff the candidates are saying.