I will get the shows to your FTP the same night they are aired and I also will provide a stream so the stations can play the shows live if they want.
I agree it's going to take an effort out of all of us.
So let's start getting those FTP's going and start sharing our streams when our shows are live.
The Flea Network!!!!
RFB, I wish to speak in regarding the FTP site you made available.
Since it was for the "Long Wave (LW) Network," and since the LW project is still pending and not completed, I have not mentioned the FTP aspect.
But Lefty-Gomez is right, a part 15 network, commonly shared, is a fabulous solution.
Please make the instructions for uploading to your FTP site available, so we may all have it in mind.
Also, maybe the name of the network needs updating.
I like the spirit and positiveness of this thread.
All of our programming is streamed. One specialty show that I do is a two hour Southern and country gospel show on Sundays at 7:30 a.m. EST. I've been doing a Sunday program for years. We have around 10 Christian stations in our market, bit none of them play this type of music. It seems to compliment our regular country and classic country/soft oldies hybrid format.
Also there are two streams. The Live365 stream carries our ads, which really are our own ads. A number of them are PI spots, but every little bit helps.
The Radio Terra stream is, for the most part, noncommercial.
The Southern Gospel simulcast is the same over both streams.
In automation mode, the Live365 stream runs behind the Radio Terra feed due to the stopsets. But it's the same playlist.
We have no classic country, soft oldies, or adult standards stations in the market. So the format is really a little bit of a hybrid, but primarily country. That's what I have the most of.
I hadn't visited this site is a while, but one other website offering Part 15 resources:
radio boy I would like to use your sunday show on my station if you don't mind.
Banana Belt Radio is a proud member of the Part15 Radio Network!
Hows that guys ?
No problem, feel free to use the program if you wish.
The only way that there would ever be rule changes is to form a LP org and lobby Washington DC. I am a member of the DAV Disable American Veterans and there was a member ship drive years ago and reached 1.4 million. The letter asking to join said join and get voice in Washington dc. We did and our benefits have continued to get better.
the big broadcasters control DC and pay license fees according to market size.
I purchased a Sencore FS134 Field Strength Meter and now can see my rf just like the FCC does and have a FM band transmitter. Use TV rabbit ears as a receive antenna. Have a watt meter and can measure VSWR. When the parts arrive will build a LP filter.
wildbill, I admire the example you set by going the extra mile to have test gear so can keep tabs on what you are doing.
I think most part 15ers dream of having good self-measurement facilities, but of course the serious test gear costs many times more than our part 15 transmitters.
Still, there have been many good discussions of using S-meters and other band-aid approaches to get some kind of useful estimate of what we are putting out.
Part 15ers tend to be such an honest group that I doubt if any of us ever jay walk.
I am going to look up that Sencore FIM and keep a picture of it near by.
Anyone working in this field, be it a hobby or career should have on hand some tools to to the job right.
A radio with an S meter is a good start, and probably the most common tool used, and no doubt probably the cheapest route to go, well except for building one from junk parts.
There is a myth that needs to be busted up right here and now.
That myth is that to some hard nose thumper bumpers, only test gear that hits a price range of 20 grand plus is adequate or recognized as being useful to make measurements.
No doubt some of these who tout this garbage doesn't even have anything near that price range either..so sit down and be quiet! :p
I recommended to two fellow board members here a certain piece of test gear they could add to their arsenal for less than 500 bucks. An AT 5005 spectrum analyzer.
It is an EXCELLENT piece of test gear, MORE than adequate to take on measurements for this hobby and even doing commercial work, and it has the sensitivity, the frequency range, the bandwidth range and can show a lot more than just an S meter equipped radio.
500 bucks is not cheap, but 500 bucks is not 20 grand either. 700 dollars is not cheap either for a TX that will sit outside in a box in uncontrolled environment conditions, but that much is spent anyway. Some have even spent 10 times that amount on studio gear. Others have spent a good chunk in preparing an area outside for a real 3 meter antenna system with a good ground system.
There isn't any reason to not seek out some extra real tooling to keep tabs on your station's transmitter performance. Be it 100mW or 5 watts CC or 11 nanowatts FM or 1 watt LW or WHATEVER!
If a DVM or even an old analog volt meter cost 500 bucks, and it's the most basic piece of test gear to have, would anyone be balking at getting one knowing you darn well need it?!!
We work with radio signals and emit them out into the either. It's our responsibility to make sure our signals are not causing a problem somewhere that some radio with an S meter is not going to point out, but a spectrum analyzer will, and can, and more precise than a simple radio..even a 500 buck analyzer will have more accuracy and tell more than that simple S meter radio.
If its to be done..do it right!
RFB
The only way that there would ever be rule changes is to form a LP org and lobby Washington DC. I am a member of the DAV Disable American Veterans and there was a member ship drive years ago and reached 1.4 million. The letter asking to join said join and get voice in Washington dc. We did and our benefits have continued to get better.
the big broadcasters control DC and pay license fees according to market size.
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The Part 15 National Broadcasters Association.
A body to watch out for our needs and to be our advocates.
The real question is , will we really work at this?
And then is there a need for the Few Part 15 Broadcasters to do this ?
I think there is and I also think that we need to work at bringing our stations to more people and to make our stations better than what is offered out there.
We are the Low Power stations that all the people were thinking of .
"The Part 15 National Broadcasters Association."
Maybe call it "The National Association of Low Power Broadcasters", or "NALPB". Has a ring to it don't ya think?!
BUT..I don't want to be a part of an organization that becomes bureaucratic and stuffy. It should be an organization from a grass roots prospective and involve not just those of us who operate a station, but also by members of the community in which we serve and active in that organization, all reaching for the same goal...to bring back localized community oriented radio and potentially create a whole new market and industry which is SOOOO desperately needed in this country right now.
RFB
I agree RFB , the real questions is how to we all communicate in real time to get this off the ground ?
I know we are just a few guys on a Forums who love radio , But I think a place like this is where good things start.
Perhaps a meeting on Team Speak ?
Or Skype or ?
I am open to all of your thoughts on this subject.
Forget Skype. It's gone to garbage since it's buyup by Milkysoft.
Team Speak is better IMO. And it's free, no one needs to have credits or other nonsense.
RFB
Ok I will get a team speak server going in the next few days.