Yes, as per Canadian rules as Artisan pointed out AM can't really be used if you want to have a neighbourhood station and make it known you are there. I was trying to rationalize that I am using a legal transmitter and it's in my own home and what's the point of certification if it can't be used but...of course my intent is to get listeners and be a neighbourhood station and yes the Procaster is legal to use but not as I am using it and as Artisan explained about the Canadian rules if you want to broadcast e.g. have a neighbourhood station you must do it on FM as there are no BETS AM transmitters. So only the Decade MS-100 can be used in Canada and FM allows more range here than Part 15.
So the Procaster goes into the cupboard.
I'm sorry to hear that Mark. You likely had better area coverage with AM than FM. I know FM here in the USA is useless for Part 15 station. That wouldn't even cover the block I live on...
@wefr Don't be sorry, at least here we can with FM be a little radio station and broadcast as one to the general public and yes the AM as per 100mW gets more range but half of that range is fringe and not too listenable even on the best receiver. Our FM here is not like the USA and can cover a neighbourhood, if there's space to go that is reasonably clean space.
I have the Decade on a shelf and I lined the shelf with aluminum foil to create a metal surface and a ground plane that without voiding certification increases coverage a bit.
I am going to contact the CRTC here and try to talk to someone who knows the ins and outs of broadcasting and see if there's a way to do this with the Procaster and not be considered broadcasting.....like my target audience is the people that live in this immediate neighbourhood as Rich Powers suggested such as e.g. Elm Grove Manor, or Rory Rd radio.
Yes, unlike the transmitters operating legally under RSS210 at schools, parks, churches, store parking lots and intersections, etc. They all have a totally different intent.
I'm not sure what that intent might be, but it's certainly not intended to attract listeners, otherwise they'd be illegal.
I think I understand the Canadian rules now.
But all jesting aside. It seems that perhaps maybe it boils down to it being legal to Broadcast under RSS210 for information purposes, but illegal to broadcast for entertainment purposes.
That's my best guess of reasoning if that indeed is the case.
And Mark, as long as you enjoy what your hobby, it's all good.
"I am going to contact the CRTC here and try to talk to someone who knows the ins and outs "
Absolutely!
Be nice if we here had some form of usable FM. But not going to happen thanks to corporate commercial interests..