June 1st

Nice. Do have many listeners that you know of?

Good work, Roy! You are the type of station operator that will be around for a long time. Also, I know from the program schedule you keep that you are providing a valuable service to your coverage area. I also launched my radio station in the month of June, way back in 2007. I look forward to reading about your progress here at part15org.

@mark I have 5-6 I know of. 14 Likes the station FB page and 25 followers.

@carl-blare Thanks Carl, It's in my DNA. My work history is radio broadcasting. I know, but my part 15 is not much compared to a commercial tri-cast of 2 FM's and 1 AM stations calling itself the (slogan removed) torch for a certain candidate here and in a neighboring county...

@wefr I advertise in a local neighbourhood web site called "Nextdoor" and it gets 500+ views and some likes/comments each time I redo the post and keep a new post on Facebook all the time. But only friends see the facebook post if they scroll down the news feed which not all do. So not necessarily a good place(Facebook) as the people that see it live in another country(USA) or nowhere near me. Only one Facebook friend lives in my area.
A sign on the community mail box is good too.
3 regular listeners and maybe more unknowns.
I once spent a lot on stamps and sent a notice in mail to "attention homeowner" to all residences in my listening area but that was quite an expense for 100+ stamps. Now stamps for a letter is close to $1 so wouldn't do that now.

@mark I could try nextdoor. And posting on blessing boxes and cluster mailbox. My station FB is public. My personal one is friends only. Won't be doing the stamps. Too expensive as you said.

Can Facebook be private or public? Didn't know there's a difference. If I post I select public, anyone on or off Facebook but unless they go down the feeds they won't see it but it goes on my profile.
Have 10 followers so I guess some do see the posts as none of those followers are friends.

You have Nextdoor there where you are too? Didn't know this was all over North America.
Yeah just keep posting to renew it every few weeks to your nearby neighbourhoods.

Personal page can be either. Most radio TV news media pages are public.

I've found local advertising to be the best.  From signs in the neighborhood to letters and/or articles in local papers (or local online sites), they tend to attract the most attention.

Artisan Radio was actually written up in one of the Vancouver big daily newspapers when it started up on Bowen Island, but that stemmed from local advertising and articles.

I've read numerous posts and articles over the years warning against such things and calling attention to your station.  But the way I feel, if you're running a certified transmitter and thus, legal, there's nothing to worry about.  That's why the FCC and ISED (Industry Canada) certify these devices.  Heck, we even got a mention on the air from a Vancouver-based CBC (Canada's public radio and TV network, the equivalent of NPR) DJ.

It was all positive feedback, no complaints, partially because I went out of my way to explain that what we were doing was legal, and wasn't a threat to any licensed station.

That's also why I feel that Internet streaming, at least for a Part 15 station, is really to extend your local listening area, and nothing else.  Back in the day, Artisan Radio did get listeners from all around the world (one, in fact, still does radio shows for us), but now there are just far too many other choices.  Literally millions of streaming stations, podcasts, and even the ability to sort of program your own stream.  One little station advertising at most locally just gets lost in the noise.

It is, however, kind of cool.

KDX Worldround Radio keeps 2 FM channels for indoor monitoring on FM radios, uses one AM channel for yardcasting, and runs an OGG stream for stereo high quality and a low bit-rate MP3 stream. Our website at kdxradio.com recently backed away from being a hub with many part 15 features, and is now only a link-point for our streams. We have no experience with the social websites like Facebook and all of them. We do have public stream links from the Icecast Website (ziph.org) and Steamcast.

Although I never knew what Twitter actually was, I thought it was a mistake for Elon Musk to change its name to 'X'. Is the name 'Twitter' now up for grabs? Maybe part15org can take it over and have a famous link name.

My description of KDX would be incomplete without mention of our listenership, since that's one of the main things addressed in this thread. And the answer is... I have no idea and don't consider it important. The main reason KDX exists is to provide me myself with the best radio possible according to my own tastes and interests. If any random strangers choose to listen they are welcome to do so, but I don't need to be aware of it since they are not physically in the building nor do I have to feed them. My streams keep log files and I look at them rarely and notice that unknown connections are made from time to time but I do not use the information for any purpose. I do not need to court commercial sponsors with impressive numbers because the station is noncommercial. I do not become enriched psychologically or spiritually by 'being heard' and have enough ego gratification from simply being able to build a great radio station without a need to be awarded or lauded by some imagined peers. Rather than 'wanting to be noticed by fans' I consider the hobby of low power radio broadcasting something of potential social benefit to fellow human beings and put some effort into promoting it via this forum, which does not result in listeners whatsoever. You listen to yours and I'll listen to mine.

My previous posting describes KDX as being a somewhat 'exclusive' station not concerned with attracting new listeners. But the human mind is often contradictory and at very friendly moments I think about making friends and talking together by way of a blog. That would of course be 'The Blare Blog' which went out of business when I decided that I had said everything. But here we are thinking about starting it back up. We realize that the heat wave pushing up near 100-degrees may be melting our brain, but we think of the Artisan Radio Blog which started back up a month ago, and maybe we should follow. Except that he only made one brief blog since coming back, so perhaps the magnetic storm he talks about is doing something to Canadians. Freedom can be difficult when it comes to making decisions. 

@carl-blare I will be making blog entries.

The ones I've felt like making recently would only get me into trouble, so I wisely decided to forgo them.

They will start up again soon.  Promise.

That's a part of the reason I backed away from writing my Blog... "The ones I've felt like making recently would only get me in trouble". And that's a serious symptom of our time... we are 'safer' keeping our remarks to ourself because people are easily riled up and intolerant. The art of conversation is mostly dead and people are ready to have a civil war rising out of steeply polarized dogmatic opinions that are not open to question. In order to express our social instinct for talking, we have to use language that won't offend anybody and end up being people with 'something to hide'. We need to talk all around issues without coming out and saying what we think.