There's a stickler in all of us that wants to cast shade on other people's ideas, especially when we are right according to the laws of physics and reason.
What we ignore is that hobby radio is driven in many cases by fantasy and we do harm to the hobby if we puncture the rising balloons of inspiration stemming from the fantastic sense.
In those halcyon Knight Kit days when two glowing tubes put The Champ's "Tequila" from one room to another on the 3rd floor of my parent's house, where I could watch the loudspeaker-cone shove air back and forth as wattage drove the voice-coil, I was at the very center of the most interesting radio exhibition since Nathan B. Stubblefield sent harmonica music through the air at his farm in Kentucky around 1892.
Of course being reminded that C-QUAM remains failed and one more rock station is meaningless are useful as sanity checks, but too much sanity can be a downer, so a little fantasy now and then helps spark things up a little bit.
In my fantasy the next phone call will be from a college girl who likes older announcers.
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I actually DO get listeners of my part 15 station
I was at the Deltaville pool and my stepson mentioned my station. A gentleman and his wife about in their mid 30's said they had heard about my station through the Deltaville facebook page. They said that they really like the variety that I play.
Even though your station may cover a mile LOUD and maybe an extra 1/4 mile at marginal signal to different car Radio's the point is that if you have the programming people like they will listen. Sometimes they'll go the extra mile to tell others of the same taste of content.
This subject has been talked about on the Part 15 AM&FM Hobby Broadcasting group on Facebook and those folks with Rangemasters near salt water have enjoyed some extra coverage. If only it had C-Quam I'd have tried one of those.
And your dreams can indeed come true through part 15. Remember many broadcasters in the professional field started as part 15 stations.