Part 15 DX reports?

The Big-Q (which I believe is one in the same with Night Watchman Radio Program) had a BIG signal into the Detroit area last night.

Brian

Still nothing out here in the wild north west. Some interesting things going on below 300Khz though!

UPDATE: Early this morning...a very very faint signal on 1710 at around 6:45a. Not clear enough to tell anything except there was something trying to cut through.

RFB

One thing every part 15er probably thinks about, and many blog about, is our wish list of things we'd like the FCC to allow under part 15.

This morning the wish is that 1710 be granted for part 15 use at 1-Watt ERP and a 25-foot vertical antenna.

Can't do that...all the 160'ers will raise a fuss as will the upper MW band broadcasters.

That nasty ol enemy of everything radio...harmful interference.

RFB

RFB, you are the reality guide for part 15 living, but wishes happen, and here is the new one....

I wish those upper-banders and 160-ers would act there age.

Huh? Well, that may not be the best thing to say, but it's hard to know how to win such a three-sided argument.

Well radio is for more than just sending blips and beeps and digital hash or telephone voice. But on the other side of the coin..I think ham's got the stinky end of the stick.

Their bands are so narrow and limited its ridiculous. They need more elbow room...just like both MW and FM needs more elbow room.

Wow..what a concept! Allocate more elbow room and that will eliminate the band congestion! Amazing! How about using up all the unused spectrum just sitting there wasting away?! Wow..what another incredible idea!

They could even make a pretty penny too by auctioning that wasted space off...wow..yet another fantastic concept!

So many ways to improve things, yet so very little required to muck it all up.

RFB

RFB has inadvertently named the next transmitter project under the code name "Elbow", the transmitter with "elbow room."

400% modulation.

"Actually the number of translator applications is "only" around 3,000.
Still too many!"

Yeah, sorry. Well, it was 30,000 at one time. They figured they could reduce it to 10,000. Now they have it down to about 2300 or something.

The problem is that a few long-standing corporate FM station network owner coalitions filed a totally exorbitant number of applications. They appear to have just wanted to carpet over the spectrum. If you have enough moxie, I guess you could do that, all electronically, as fast as the servers could handle it back then.

The FCC knows this, however, and is fighting back as much as their leadership will allow. Hopefully the final reduction will allow them to iron out the details and open a window before the year is out.

I think they probably want to avoid the same thing happening with organized flooding by groups who want to set up networks of LPFM stations. I think there will be a heckuvvalot of competition

The thing is that being on the dial, large or small, seems so important to the person --- and you know a corporation is a person --- who wishes to air advertisements in the quest for commercial income.

The lost ingredient in the recipe is the audience who tends to be somewhere else texting and cell-phoning in a different world.

But the world of today is not happening in reality, it is swirling in the flush of propaganda aimed at the heads of mankind.

EDITOR'S EXCEPTION - Except that as we see from reliable reports, man is NOT kind. We torture other people.

"Other people" are also human beings, just like us, yet we are able to disregard them. Hmmm?

I'm not going to say where or when it happened,
but I am going to risk it and tell the story. You
can take it out if you want, but there are no
specific details here.

I request you don't ask me any questions about
this.

A "radio broadcasting school" somewhere, at some
time, in some place - wanted to put an LPFM on, so
the school's students could have a real radio station to work
with and on. You know - a hands on experience.

A frequency search was done and completed. The legal
work began.

A broadcast executive in the area (I don't know what level he
was at) came forward and stated something like this:

If your school puts that LPFM on the air, anybody who graduates
from your school and wants to go into broadcasting never will.
We will make sure that none of your graduates ever get a job
at any station in the entire U.S. Meaning, in our whole entire
country. Stop building your LPFM NOW.

And so, the LPFM was never built.

This was quite a while ago, and maybe those people are gone,
but the LPFM did have the green light.

Few times in my life have I ever been so emotionally torn up
about something.

Bruce, DOGGRADIO STUDIO 2

Remember the idea of taking the old TV channels
5 and 6 and expanding the range of FM stations
and radios to
go down to 76 MHz?

That vanished in the blink of an eye.

Bruce, DOGGRADIO STUDIO 2

Any response would seem awkward since you asked for such all-out discretion, but I must say...

Big license executives who use blunt confrontation as a way of controlling the market are not very rare.

There are stories in this market which I will withhold because I already have been targeted and injured by such real pirates, and will now avoid speaking too bluntly.

What am I talking about?

If you must ask, you are a true innocent and may you survive unscathed.

We'll, the story came about probably
right around the beginning of the early LPFM
windows.

It wasn't anywhere around my neck of the
woods.

But, I'm not familiar with this kind of
injustice, not directly.

I guess that's why it had such an effect
on me.

Bruce, DOGGRADIO STUDIO 2

P.S. However, it is not my style to
stir up a bunch of emotions. I tend
to go on the humorous side almost all
of the time. Perhaps I should ask the
people who run the site to take my
comments out. It was the emotions of
the moment - because of something totally
unrelated that was going on.

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"A broadcast executive in the area (I don't know what level he was at) came forward and stated something like this:
If your school puts that LPFM on the air, anybody who graduates from your school and wants to go into broadcasting never will. We will make sure that none of your graduates ever get a job at any station in the entire U.S. Meaning, in our whole entire country. Stop building your LPFM NOW.
And so, the LPFM was never built."