Ken, my son and I listened to your station last
night for quite a while. You're doing a really really
great job!
We heard the play about the mutant squirrels and
the guy with the hover craft. Then we heard
Abbot and Costello. Then we heard Amos and Andy.
Then we heard what sounded like some really cool
vocal and instrumental music. My son, who is a
REAL jazz musician, liked the music. He said it was
really good.
Then I "tuned in" the next morning and heard your
NOAA broadcast. It was fun listening to weather
reports about places I have never been to.
I don't know why I thought you were off the air, but
you sure are not. Your station is running very very
well.
Seriously, there have been a lot of health problems in
my family, and I have been distracted from this board
quite a few times.
Anyway, I'll keep listening to your station.
Bruce, DRS2
P.S. On the LPFM 10 watt thing - I have no
real data or numbers to back up this feeling.
I just thought it was a good power level to
cover a small town. And I miss all of the ten
watt college stations. There were tons of them
and they were really fun to DX.
Bruce I enjoyed your story a lot, even though I never found the part about real part 15 news.
Also, I was unaware of your wife and the beer.
The only thing that puzzled me was how your recycling bins were traveling at Mach 25.
After all, Mach 25 is pretty fast.
Seriously, Carl, we must have been
posting messages at the same time.
I have some comments about Ken's great
station, and a few other odds and ends,
in my previous message, just before your
last one.
Bruce, DOGGRADIO STUDIO 2.
I understand things will never be what they once were for radio. But my point wasn't for wishful/wistful thinking.
I'm not advocating the elimination of LP-10 service (which IMO the FCC would apparently like to do), but rather some surgery to raise number levels above current restrictions, and similar protections as LP-100, as LP-10 has no protection at all, not even from LP-100 stations, except perhaps from Part 15 stuff. Without those modifications, I think it would be difficult to develop a workable financial model. IMO, a station trying to operate under the current LP-10 rules will fail. Risky business at best, and I'm not alone in that assessment. Why should a LP-10 station be relegated to second-class-citizen if its purposes are the same?
Want to dream? How about this? A single 250 watt service (1-250w) wherein you adjust power, signal propagation, HAAT, to cover a specific service area without interference to second adjacent channels of nearby stations. That's all normal engineering and testing for any station anyway, right?
Then all that has to be done is get rid of the pesky translator issues.
Maybe it's too simple ... financially struggling commercial stations will undoubtedly poop all over that.
Thanks Bruce. I believe I just ran jazz classix after the funnies. I don't generally go live at that hour, and I alternate jazz with classical/eclectic music. IOW, at night, Mon - jazz classix, Tue - classical/eclectic, Wed - jazz again, Thur - classical again, etc.
But we do have some world class musicians living in the San Juans.
Tonite (Friday) is Westerns. Never get to hear Westerns on radio anymore -- except for the OTR stuff like I play. Probably Gunsmoke and Lone Ranger tonite, 9:00pm PDT.
IMO, LP-10 FM is too restricted under current regs. If I were to think about building one, I'd want the same protections as LP-100, considering the time, money, and effort going to get licensed and on the air would be about the same.
It's no wonder pirate stations keep popping up. I still think at least 1 watt and a 50' antenna would be fine for a Low Power AM station, but no such service exists, at least not yet.
CB two-way radio became so popular, FCC abandoned formal licensing. What's the worst that could happen if we had 1 or maybe 2 watt AM stations which only required sending in a page or two of documentation and a check for $50?
Hi everyone
I see alot of mentions of 10 watt Am stations and FM Stations. I tried
Many time to get License from the FCC but they said I would have to waite
on an opening. I guess a time when they actually allow a person to get
licensed.
I run a Part 15 tansmitter. Model TS-100
Anyways I would love to have more range since I live in Texas in the
country where you really need distance to reach anyone.
"RFB, you stream - is that correct? I would
like to listen to you. And Barry - if you
are still out there - do you still stream?"
Bruce,
I am still here and have been very busy lately.
Yes i still stream as well the link is in the bottom of my post's but i will place it here too.
96 Kbps
http://loudcaster.com/channels/1178-rock-105-3-fm
AAC 32 Kbps
http://icecast01.loudcaster.com:80/1178.32.aac
The url for the AAC stream should work in Winamp by copying the url into the URL field under File/Play URL .
Also since i am a broadcaster at Loudcaster.com the stream is available via any mobile device from www.tunein.com either from the website or a free app for most smart phones.
Station website is www.radiodizzy.org
If you have any trouble tuning in on the stream email me [email protected]
Thanks
Barry Sallade
Rock 105.3 FM
formerly Rock 95.7 FM
Somehow, I missed this thread for
a while. I just wanted to thank
you guys - Barry and Ken.
I appreciate the info about your
stations.
They are both great operations!
And to Carl too, I really don't know
how you guys do it. It's a lot of
work.
Best Wishes,
Bruce, DOGGRADIO STUDIO 2
P.S. I have probably left some people
out. I'll have to look back on this
thread. I just got up - my mind is a
little foggy. But really, the programming
is impressive.
I stream, you stream, we all love to stream...
(it's all about ice cream with me...ask Carl)
How many of us currently stream? Looks like we need a new thread or checkbox in our station record to track this.
I do my own streaming but limit to 5 concurrent users to keep my ISP from getting all n*zi on me, so I don't advertise the fact (it's mostly for the locals and friends in the area). Maybe someday I'll get back to working on my programming and get it to the point I think others may want to listen to my station.
I'd love to broadcast some stories about Jupiter's moons and their inhabitants. Would fit in great with my late night programming (CBS RMT, Suspense, XMinusOne type stuff). How about a weekly podcast for re-broadcast?
Changing a few Watts here and there with LPFM might not mean much compared to huge changes being discussed in secret according toe John Anderson, PhD, at D.I.Y. Media.
Here's what you're looking for... an idea of splitting full power FM stations into 7-Zones apiece, so each station would have seven different transmitters covering their total service area; the total elimination of the AM band, or, instead, convert it 100% to digital.
Yeah..just turn the whole MW band into nothing but digital hash across the whole thing. Ya that's the answer!
Perhaps this PhD fella does not bother to even listen to the MW band with it's current plethora of IBLOTCH hash garbage and is totally unaware that his statement of turning the MW band into 100 percent digital is totally stupid.
Or that fella is getting a kickback from the proprietary ownership of IBLOTCH.
RFB
Agreed that some pompous (P) haughty (h) daffy (D) type people are only bags of wind. But not in this case.
The D.I.Y. Media website is very pro-radio and he cares a lot about the same things we care about.
In this link he is merely reporting on "secret meetings" by industry people, ranging from NAB to corporate insiders who want to "sway" the FCC.
Professor Anderson is very Anti-HD (IBOC) and very much in favor of AM, LPAM, LPFM and even Part 15. He is totally for a quality media in the hands of true broadcasters. He is a friend (to radio).
Good to know that. Considering what is referenced and written within the article, does any of it indicate any sort of real change to radio?
Seems to me the Nazi Association of Broadcasters and industry people and all their secret meetings are nothing different from all the garbage politicians are doing..and do we see anything for the better from that?
RFB
A common mantra of politicians and professional advisers is "I have a plan." They get paid big bucks to "have a plan", and if their plan is put to the test and fails, they are already off on a different "I have a plan" scheme.
Take FM. If each 100kW station were divided into seven-studios and towers serving their coverage area in "zones" the engineering and management difficulties would increase way beyond practical reason. It's a silly idea. If those "zones" are important, they could be served by a batch of LPFM stations, each independent. But is that a road paved with gold? No. It takes dedicated operators willing to endure high risk.
Now we'll do AM. The idea of migrating the AM stations up to the low-side of the FM band, TV channels 5 & 6, presumes that the only problem keeping AM from succeeding is static and electrical interference on the MW band. Up on the new band the stations will find that no one buys the new radios, just as no one is purchasing HD radios, because, oh, it must the programming. Nobody likes the programming.
But, if you're a consultant, the trick is to "have a plan."
It's really quite simple. Its just too bad that simple can sometimes be TOO simple for the simple minded.
RFB