NOTICE OF CLOSURE

Retrospective -

I was just posting ON TOPIC in the thread "Three Pirates Just Showed Up In My Area" when some moderator beat me to the ENTER key by declaring the thread closed. What I would have said is...

Facts of Life -

Boring licensed stations have rights.

Interesting unlicensed stations have no rights.

Part 15 private radio is the only answer.

The FCC's own rules....YOU MUST ACCEPT INTERFERENCE HOWEVER CAUSED..AND.. YOU MUST NOT CAUSE ANY INTERFERENCE unless you have a licence....then you can complain about interference.

Mark

If you think a licensed station is boring you have actions you can take.

1. The simplest is to call the station.  You can request songs.  You can call into a talk show.  You see if they would sell you air time to put on something that you are interested in and others may enjoy.  You can make suggestions for services their listeners would benefit from.

2. If you want to make the station work, go and inspect their public file.  Ask station management how the programing of the station meets the needs of the community they serve.

3. If you truly think the station is not acting in the public’s interest when their license comes up for renewal, you can file an objection.

If a non NCE licensed station (or group of stations) is not operating at a loss then they are making enough money to cover electricity, salary, upgrades, repairs, rent, music licensing, and other expenses.  If they are covering their costs then, while you may find them boring, someone is listening.  If a NCE station stays on the air, it is because they are either able to raise enough money with pledge drives to keep the station on the air or some organization is giving them cash to stay on the air.  Again, that means someone is probably listening.  Licensed stations have rights because they have a license.  They continue to have a license because someone is listening and enough cash is changing hands to keep the station on the air.  If the licensed station was not getting enough money to stay on the air they would either turn in their license or sell it.

Your thread title gave me a start, I thought it might have been the site closing! Now the post I've written in the 3 pirates thread has taken a Cumulus drop in the marketplace of ideas, since its thread has been de-listed.

I was a victim of closure when a thread I was reading got a NOUP (Post) slapped on it, but it was sort of my fault, for I had to leave the open, unposted window to get my lunch ingredients put together into a sandwich before visiting ants ate it. I then wrote a post, punched it in and found out the thread was locked, and I didn't have any recourse because the hardware store was closed and I didn't have any penetrating oil.

Maybe a good idea would be to use the General Discussions section for more postings. Protocol for most forums is that's the dumping grounds for topics that don't fit the more regimented, rigid, unbending topics in other forum areas of a site.

Add your topic, like "What's the effect on my antenna's SWR if ants are crawling on it and carrying back bits of Swiss cheese?" Then add to the post about your new Ferrari, trip to the seaside, kid's birthday party, or how you attended Blobfest for the movie and had a good time, and someone was running a P15 transmitter there for event broadcasting.

That should throw off the drones and bots and stuff, though I can see how, when you're upset about something, like the pirate radios, it can be harder to think about doing all these extras.

He is Crime. Nate Crime. And he knows what it's all about.