I've been apprising a lot of low-power folks about this in other forums and newsboards, because I'm considering it to be a very nice boost for us.
On a special broadcast of "Elementary" following the Super Bowl on CBS-TV, Sherlock Holmes - played by Johnny Lee Miller - tracked down a criminal after speaking to him over a cellphone. Sherlock heard his adversary fiddling with a radio in the background, tuning across several stations, and noticed a station that he could not hear at his own locale. Once he was face to face with the bad guy, he revealed that he found him by hearing a Greek micro-broadcaster that was particular to that neighborhood but heard nowhere else.
The writers could have called it a "pirate station", but instead referred to the station as a micro-broadcaster. It might be a fictional show, but I'm taking it as a legitimate nod to the movement. Thanks, Sherlock!
Thanks for that keen observation, Annandale Terrace, noticing the mention of "micro radio" by a Sherlock Holmes who not only knew his local dial but was aware of a micro-station at another location.
It would have been neat if Holmes teamed up with the micro-broadcaster to use the station as a tool to solve the rest of the mystery.
Maybe part 15 stations should give their GPS co-ordinates in Morse code.
I thought it was real cool.
I think he talked about one
radio station only covering
a few blocks, also. That must
have been the Greek microroadcaster.
One of the writers for that show
knows something about radio!
Bruce, Formerly from MICRO1700 and
The Dog Radio Stations, Including GNAT 90.9
and SLUG 88.3