| FM: 3 milliwatts ERP. 84~87 MHz allowed 10 milliwatts ERP. Type acceptance required. |
| FM: 50 mW EIRP |
here in the good ol usa supposedly land of the free?
The station has now removed all reference to 87.9MHz from it's web site and Facebook pages and no longer associates it's self with on-air broadcasting of any type.
He complied, now it is time for the engineers who intended to take FCC action against this station to find other people to harrass.
I am not trying to sound like a dick here, I just personally think the person who operated this station, did not know what rules he had to follow. By their own admittance, they stated the rules were very difficult to follow (word for word) or to understand in plain English.
I have to agree here, if it was not for those of you who explain the rules in baby talk, I would be confused too. I actually was VERY confused in the very early stages of my learning curve, sub-part this, sub-part that, see sub-part this or that, those rules were written with a college degree reader in mind not the average Joe.
250uV @ 3 meters? Do you think I really knew what the hell uV stood for? Ultra Violet maybe?
I am not making excuses for anyone, but you have to admit, the FCC rules are NOT written in easy to understand English like a written driver's license test is.
Bruce.
Well, it's good for them on one hand, as they're not going to have an FCC inspector show up at their door.
But on the other hand, it's bad in the sense that they could have made it work, even now, with a little help. With a Rangemaster (or ProCaster) and a Part 15 legal outdoor installation, they could have probably exceeded their existing coverage.
I agree with MrBruce in that the existing rules are not oriented towards someone who is a layman in radio. But The Point should have also run their broadcasting plans past someone with experience before setting out on the path that they eventually followed - it would have saved them a lot of hassle and (presumed) heartache.
I am giving the station owner a few days, he did not say if people were harrassing them or not, but I am sure someone may have, based on the comments posted on the bottom at that newspaper article page.
If that is the case, I can understand he's throwing in the towel for now.
But I do plan on conducting more conversations with the owner.
I have showed him some photos of what WXTZ's studio looked like and he was really impressed. Although, the studio is now a different set up for WFPN.
I personally feel, people liked his station, he has more Facebook page likes than I ever did for WFPN or WXTZ or even the two combined. He's only been in operation since March of 2016.
I have been in operation since 2013.
I gave him my phone number yesterday, perhaps, I will try to persuade him again in a few days to call me, I am terrible with typing in chat and posting here as well.
I want him to know that he can still have a decent legal over the air radio station and still have fun doing so.
Bruce.
I hope that they take you up on that, MrBruce. I'd appreciate it if you could keep us all in the loop.
The owner should know that there are a lot of people here (and to be fair, elsewhere) that would be willing to help as well, if he wants to run plans past people.