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Total posts : 45366Artisan, in defense of RFB (who is not here to defend himself) the part 15 he runs is legal. he was inspected by the denver field office and found to be legal on both his fm and his am. he has the knowledge and proper gear to check for compliance. the few weeks he ran a 15 watt FM was under an STA for his former employer who was a typical slum owner. he recinded the STA with the fcc and shut it down after a few weeks when his previous employer who the STA was under screwed him over and he quit. he now has a job with a much better employer who treats him very well and does everything by the book. i think his former employer finally imploded and got into all sorts of legal trouble from several branches of the us and local government.
Total posts : 45366WDCX, first off, if the transmitters were in violation for operating on a frequency that was not authorized for such use, then why did Hobby Broadcaster play a major part in incriminating ME when, the proper procedure SHOULD HAVE BEEN to call the fricken phone number clearly posted on our Facebook page it was 860-383-4452. Bill posted that phone number plus a Facebook profile page image on his website and contact the station to find out what was what?
If it was me, I would have contacted WXTZ and try to educate the station rather than try and get a name for myself as the BIG BOOT who stomped a pirate into the ground!
As a defender of part 15, he played a major part of being that BIG BOOT that stomped my balls into the ground! Okay, his claim was my station covered the equivalent of 5 exits on an inter-state highway, that comes to about 4 1/2 miles of highway, that information he used WAS FALSE as the person who provided that information has told TWO people already (including me) that they WERE NOT REFERRING TO WXTZ, BUT WLNC that operates on 98.7MHz NOT 89.7MHz. Also that topic at HB said NOTHING about 87.9 being the reason for concern, it said the station had an RF power output that exceeded part 15 rules! Again, based on false information used from unreliable sources. Let’s get the facts straight here okay? Because this is a serious matter!
So where is the proof that I operated an FM transmitter that had an RF power that covers 4 1/2 miles or more? None! And anyone who wants to plaster my name along with the words PIRATE better have their facts straight before discriminating my name. That guy is a POS wannabe who pointed his big lying finger in my face and posted incrimination false evidence on his site for all to see that is not true.
Laugh if you will, but I’d like to see your response if I chose to post false incriminating lies about you and post your personal information for all to see and see how you like it.
The point is, that POS was WRONG and so was HB member Ray F. Burns and also Tom Terrell the guy the radio station hired. Bill may have blocked me from his site and I really don’t care to find out if he did, as I will never visit that POS’s site again after he had the nerve to post my phone number under the topic with PIRATE in it’s title, that was NOT a CELL PHONE number, that was a telephone line listed under my real name, therefore, anyone could reverse look up that number and it would say my real first and last name. It was the same as saying Bruce xxxxxxx is a PIRATE! Yes, no point in hiding my name, Bill already published it for all to see at Hobby Broadcaster. He went above the law and here he is saying I BROKE THE LAW?
Owning his site gives him no official rights to slander me in any public form, his having his stupid little “members only” forum so everyone over there can bad mouth other people behind their backs and stab others in the back shows NO PROFESSIONALISM in my opinion!! And, anyone who participates in that forum is just as guilty as he is!
Bill barked up the wrong tree when he screwed with me! He claims he wanted to take action against me for slandering his sites reputation, however it is okay for him to slander my name and get laughs from his childish membership? I think not!!
His site is more crooked than my radio station ever thought of being and someday, Hobby Broadcaster will vanish because it was confiscated for various violations.
Let me ask you this, why is my radio station facebook pages still presently being hosted and displayed in that topic called “Hunting Down A Pirate” started by Ray F. Burns at Hobby Broadcaster? You can just steal what you want and host it on your site, those images were not intended to be hosted by anyone other than their rightful owners, unless permission was granted before hand. You can not even host images on Wikipedia without first declaring you have the rights to do so. So, Bill is also a pirate, and the proof of that is not hard to prove, images with our watermark are clearly hosted on his site. He is a crook calling an innocent person a pirate.
So you guys can hide behind that forum and bad mouth me and accuse me of crimes you have no proof I committed. Just because I say transmit on 87.5 or 78.9 and you do, does not make me responsible for your actions. The laws are, YOU the OWNER of a TRANSMITTER are RESPONSIBLE for it’s OPERATION and NO ONE OTHER THAN YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT’S OPERATION.
He violated my rights and I’m not staying quite about it!
Bruce.
Total posts : 45366The RFB who used to post here is NOT the same person as Ray F. Burns at Hobby-Billy.
They have been confused in the past, but they really and truly are two different people.
The RFB who posted here was, like kc8gpd says, helpful and reasonable. He knows more about carrier current than any person alive today.
Total posts : 45366As far as I know, he’s not a member here, probably because this site does not have a “Member’s Only” forum where people can talk bad about or stab other people in the back like kids and hide like a coward while doing so.
My words here, I do not want hidden. I want the people and the public to know the truth and I want people to see the truth!!
Bruce.
Total posts : 45366And to have been able to transmit 4 1/2 miles your output would have had to exceed 5 watts and if your on an inside antenna you would have had to use a aluminum antenna. And if that were true you would not have had to use several part 15 transmitters in a network to get to that range. Boy some are way off key here. A 1 watt transmitter will go 1/2 to 1 mile on an indoor antenna but certainly not 4 1/2 miles unless you have one hell of an antenna with some serious gain which would have been an outside antenna. I’m more concerned with wrather you would ever be able to transmit part 15 again. If it was because your on 87.9 MHz was that included in your NOUO and what was your field strength on the NOUO? Usually the notice tells you what your field strength was but I did read some citations that referenced 87.9 as illegal that didn’t have a field strength.
Carl the AM Stereo experiment is interesting to me a little bit. Still think I’d be tooting my own horn if I went AM and around here the hydro noise is more than any listener would be willing to bare. In some cases the buzz buzz even affects FM as you can hear it from time to time here. So that in mind AM is something unusable here. But it could prove reason in an arguement for stronger part 15 usable AM transmitters.
Total posts : 45366The legacy, there never was a visit from the FCC and no NOUO. I ordered the station shut down as soon as I seen Ray F. Burn’s Bullsh*t accusations and Bill’s stupid post at radioinsight.com.
The transmitters were Decade MS100 units programmed to 87.9MHz using tuned horizontally polarized V telescopic antennas commonly used as VHF set top antennas for VHF television reception. It created a horizontal dipole. The vertical antenna was not used, because we wanted to be horizontal, not vertical.
Hobby Broadcaster claimed we used a vertical Dominator FM antenna because that antenna was positioned on the roof of our studio. That antenna as any bafoon would know was a Radio Shack Archer brand VHF scanner antenna sold back in the late 70’s before VHF high and UHF were popular for commercial communications. The Dominator used by FM broadcasting is not sold as a 3 section stick, it only has 2 sections for the stick. This antenna is designed to tune down to 30MHz, the FM Dominator is designed to tune to 87.3Mhz I believe, not 30Mhz!!
Once I learned through back stabbing techniques that we were being accused of operating a high powered pirate radio station, I contacted those that I knew were retransmitting my studio and told them what was happening.
Now according to Ray F. Burns, our Facebook page had an image of the same antenna mess as the house he and Tom Terrell were photographing. Our image on our Facebook page clearly called that photo “Our Communications Antennas” It DID NOT say “OUR BROADCAST ANTENNAS”!!! Reception of signals can also be called Communications and a reception of signals is not broadcasting. Duh!
Now back to the transmitters.
I originally thought that a transmitter that was malfunctioning was transmitting over the limit. This transmitter suffered from a brown-out caused by an electrical surge from the local power company. It was later discovered that although that transmitter suffered circuit damage, it did not cause it to transmit above part 15 rules. The RF was not affected, the power supply was, it had a loud AC hum in the carrier, but since it was FCC certified it could not operate above an RF power output that would cover 4 1/2 miles like Bill claims!
That is why I keep saying, the facts that were falsely reported is that WXTZ covered a distance of 4 1/4 Miles up route 395 in Connecticut. That’s impossible! Those Decade MS100’s can’t cover that distance!!! http://www.decadetransmitters.com/en/transmitters/ms-series
PLEASE for the sake of my sanity read this topic created by Bill and the response he got from Jayday, that is what Bill used as his proof that WXTZ transmitted 4 1/2 miles and WXTZ was ROCK music NOT jazz.
FM Pirate in Norwich on 87.9
http://radioinsight.com/community/topic/fm-pirate-in-norwich-on-87-9/
Bruce.
Total posts : 45366What we learn from MrBruce’s experience is that if Hobby Billy and his slinkin’ buddies get a wiff they will be all over any of us like flies on dung.
It’s a hobby.
Total posts : 45366http://www.part15.us/forum/part15-forums/general-discussion/need-help-picking-fm-transmitter
‘Reasonable’? I had many exciting ‘discussions’ with RFB while he was here. All I know is that post #19 in that thread describes running a Part 15 radio station that is clearly non compliant.
And with that, I’m outta this thread. It has become repetitive, and as far as I can see, no longer serves any useful purpose. Let’s all move forward.
Total posts : 45366Here is what edward defranco said in your Defence Mr. Bruce:
He told me that this station was playing JAZZ music that he heard along 395 from exit 79 to exit 84, the station Mr. Defelice is talking about played rock music, not JAZZ. Therefore the two stations are not the same. Jayday also lives in North-eastern Connecticut and only travels into the Norwich area once a month. If Jayday wants to speak up, so be it.
The station Mr. Delfelice is referring to was a part 15 multi-transmitter station that for the most part could be seldom heard in around Norwich, but was well known to exist by many.
If the station did anything illegal, it might have been it’s mention of 87.9, I’m not sure, but then again if the transmitters were not owned and operated by the studio, as I well know they had originally asked for people to participate in a radio network, by buying and owning their own transmitters and the studio provided the entertainment over an Internet Stream. I do remember that part quite clearly.
By the way, I live in the Norwich area and the studio was located on the western side of town about a mile from me and I had seldom ever heard them on air unless I was in certain areas of the city. But even then, that wasn’t always possible because the signal was so weak.
I know they were looking for more participants to carry the signal, but now they are gone, have not heard any sign of them for over a month or so, so I do not know what happened to them.
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So it sounds like MrBruce done everything legally from the reception that was actually received with the exception of 87.9 MHz. Since Mr. Bruce didn’t get a NOUO he if ever a frequency becomes blank could transmit again on one of those and Mr. Bill, the NAB, and the narc organizations he works for can’t do a friggen thing about it but cry and eat crow. You could even write the FCC and ask if or when 87.9 MHz will ever be legal since the Decade (Certified Transmitter mind you) goes down there. It should never have been able to go there if it was supposedly an illegal frequency. This is what does matter to all of us here using FM Transmitters so I think this is a very interesting story to keep tabs on. Not just because we have a narc reading the threads, but to keep us all posted on what types of things the NAB is willing to do when they hire a Janitor instead of having the FCC do it’s job in the first place. What would have been more funny is if he was inspected and the FCC told Mr. Bill to bug off that he is not the FCC and not to waste their time with such trivial crap and then sent him an attorney and fild inspector bill for waste of time. This has happened in VA and was posted on WAVY 10 when people asked the city the same question and they all got bills that they had to pay in a cort of law.
I could set up a chat room for this discussion or you could simply go to my Radio Station’s web site and click Chat and we could talk all day about it. I’m sure all hobbyests would like to know the scoop of this story as it continues to unfold. I’d like to know if Bruce ever transmits again and I encourage him to do so maybe on another frequency other than 87.9 MHz. Have fun and yes I’ll read that post that was put here too.
Total posts : 45366Here is how I see it as I try to figure out a two faced trouble maker.
If you turn in a pirate to the FCC, there has to be some reward here that we don’t know about.
That reward is most likely leniency from an FCC inspector when you operate your own transmitter above the rules.
Come on now, you think all of Bill’s buddies operate a 100% legal AM radio station? You think all of his buddies spend big money on transmitters just to transmit their music to the toilet in their bathroom? Hell no! They want listeners and will do what it takes to get them.
Do you think cops turn cops in? Do you think an inspector is going to harass a man who gets down on his knees and services him?
So, as long as these law breakers turn in other people, they get special treatment. Haven’t you all figured that part out yet?
He can sue me if he wants, but let the truth be known that HB is not a part 15 friendly website, his excuse that he’s 100% behind the part 15 rules, does not give him the right to play FCC, I don’t care if Tom Terrell asked him what brand toilet paper I use. Bill should have not allowed that conversation on his site to begin with. It is anti-part 15 to play FCC field inspector.
The fact that Bill still allows that topic to exist on his HB forum board shows me that his site is not user friendly! It is a trap site for anyone other then who kisses his ass.
He can do what he wants with his site, the exception is to use it to accuse ME or anyone else as being a criminal for a crime they did not commit. Somehow this clown thinks accusing people of such is a joke. He thinks because he spends his life with high school kids that life is a game. That shows his mentality is that of a 15 year old. Well guess what, I graduated high school long ago and I am not one of his high school kids.
If anyone out there is smart, you’d read between the lines and see the truth and stay the hell away from his web site. although there is knowledge there, there is also a trap that has been set and that trap is for anyone who does not kiss his ass.
It’s your choice if you venture there, good luck when you say ONE thing wrong as he’ll post that stupid disclaimer that his site is part 15 and nothing but part 15. Don’t what ever you do mention that you applied for a CP by filing form 318 with the FCC, he’ll crap on you to!
Bruce.
Total posts : 45366Whoops the site hiccup and created two identical posts.
Total posts : 45366As the trail goes along I have heard a “ring of truth” in much of what MrBruce has shared about his experience and I have made posts in defense of MrBruce.
But now we are beginning to color outside the lines:
MrBruce wrote: “If you turn in a pirate to the FCC, there has to be some reward here that we don’t know about.”
The key to that statement is “THAT WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT.” But then MrBruce started writing about imaginary favoritism for reporting on others, “buying” special treatment from the feds. A whole new invention that isn’t even a rumor.
If you write about false fantasies the entire truth part of your testimony will begin to collapse.
Total posts : 45366Sorry had to run to pick up than item and did not have time to edit the original or reuse that double post for a new post.
Here is what makes a good case.
Bill claims that he is strict to the rules of part 15 License free broadcasting.
The FCC has control over any US territories.
On Bill’s site there is a station profile page. It contains pictures and a biography of a station owned by a member.
In the forums, Bill introduces that station and says more information is available at that station’s profile page.
The profile pages are written by the station owners. However, only Bill has control over adding that page to his website. Therefore, he has to add the photos and add the text to this page.
That would mean Bill has the ability to edit the text of each profile before it is added to that page. He doubles as the Administrator as well, but it is HIS web site!!
When I visited the profile page, I witnessed the fact that this station was using FM. I also witnessed the fact that this station was located on the United States mainland, NOT overseas.
The station profile clearly explained that this station was operating grossly above part 15 rules for FM! 3 miles using ONE FM transmitter? That coverage is clearly mentioned in this station’s profile page.
I went back to the thread where Bill introduced that station and created a post.
Taking into consideration the few times Bill flagged a few of my posts as questionable, possible rule breaking intentions, I decided to ask why he allowed this obviously over powered FM radio station on his station profile page when 3 miles is grossly over part 15 distance for FM broadcasting in the USA.
You would think Bill would have supported my concerns with saying: I did not know he was operating as a pirate, I’ll remove his profile.
INSTEAD HE replied with: His job is not to question how someone else operates their radio station and that member has been a long standing member who has helped a lot here at HB and his knowledge is something I admire.
Instead of enforcing my concerns, he basically told me to leave the guy alone and mind my own business!
I do not encourage anyone to visit there, but the proof is on his website, he can not say I am lying. I do not recall the name of the thread, but that station is listed on the part 15 station profile page. It’s location is in the South-Western USA, either Utah, Nevada, New Mexico? I can’t remember the state and don’t want to post information such as member’s name that I can not 100% confirm, because I am sure my access to Bill’s site is blocked. Sucks being stuck with the same IP address! I believe I remember the stations name, but if I am in error then that makes me look bad. I have a name in mind that was the station’s name, but I do not feel confident enough that I post it here and be 100% correct, so I’ll leave that information out of this post.
So what’s my point? Why incriminate one person over false facts, but defend a Blatant FM pirate who posted such, on Bill’s web site’s part 15 radio station profile page?
See a double standard here by any chance?
Bruce.
Total posts : 45366MrBruce, what you have just demonstrated by showing the jolly janitor’s inconsistency is a somewhat common disorder called “two-facedness” and “dual-mindedness.” One set of rules finger-wagged to outsiders, special priveleges and rewards for insiders. It sort of describes the American political system.
Total posts : 45366I agree 100% that the reason we all want Transmitter is to get listeners. makes no sense otherwise. Therefore we all need to be on the same team. Rather you think someone is overpowered or not is irrelevant. That said this is why we need to petition the FCC for a reasonable power level that can be measured on fm. It should not have to be measured with $20,000 equipment. Lke I said the FRS walkie talkies are 1 watt and yet very close to police and public safety and advertise right on the box that they transmit 2 miles. This is on A rubber duck antenna. That said an fm Transmitter should have almost the same range and be legal. if you’re on a rubber duck you should get relatively the same range. So its not interference the FCC is the least bit worried about. It’s the big conglomerates who pay big money to lobby for what they want. However if we have A recognizable hobby group such as the ALPB and we get enough members who actually can prove they know something about Radio and how it runs then you have a greater chance of actually making a difference. This needs to be done no more foolish business of field strength. If you have a clean Transmitter like the Ramsey, decade, Whole House fm Transmitter 3.0, sainsonic ax 05 B them you should be ok. Now if we get allowed more power same rules would apply that we need certified Part 15 Transmitters. If unlicensed users dont get more then a Hobby broadcasting license which should be easy to get be issued. I hear the same song about AM. In most areas forget it. If no one tries you wont get change.
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