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for everyone who is interested in our The National Association of Low Power Broadcasters network.
The Meeting will be held on TS.
for everyone who is interested in our The National Association of Low Power Broadcasters network.
The Meeting will be held on TS.
Goals are to put together what stations and what shows are part of the Network.How the Network should be operated and how to make sure that our network is good for the public.
I would like to ask you all what day and time would be good for you.
The Meeting will also be recorded to be posted and shared with all members of this forum.I believe that no one should own this network and that any person who holds the standard for our network should be allowed to have shows and get the shows offered for the network.
All part 15 stations should be welcomed into the network provided they are members of this forum. and in good standing with this site.
I suggest a Sunday this month in the evening for the east cost time zone.
That way the west coast stations don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn or for the east coast stations owners to have to stay up to late.Your posts are wanted and I am open to any time or date.
The meeting will be all of us who will add our ideas and share the plans and concepts for the network.
Ok gents please start posting.
I am very serious about this concept.
Yours truly
Lefty Gomez.
Total posts : 45366Mr. Lefty Gomez I am naming you my “proxy” for purposes of the meeting of the National Part 15 Project.
That means you can vote on my behalf and let me know later what I agreed to.
Total posts : 45366Best time for me is in the evenings between 7pm and 10pm MT, any day of the week. Weekends are pretty much open for the next several weekends.
Cmon people, you want more power, you want less restrictions, you want more range, you want more respect and recognition to low power broadcasting, well here is our chance to form a group from the grass roots and get involved and bring in your audience too and get them involved.
Nothing is going to change until we demand those changes, and that is going to take both the public and us combined.
I’m in.
RFB
Total posts : 45366Also, I don’t have a webcam. I’m assuming team speak is similar to skype. I’m lucky to have 56K speeds off my neighbor’s wifi, so voip isn’t an option.
Total posts : 45366If that’s possible. I’m free anytime I’m not working, which varies week to week. This week I’m free all day monday and friday.
Email me for the phone number to call. I won’t give it out on a public forum.
Total posts : 45366…but consider me in. I’m a radio guy, but not very “geeky” with all the computer stuff.
I’m SO ready to get my Part 15 AM back on the air, and, at the same time, become a part of something a little bigger, like the group.
It’s easy to feel like a loner on an island out there.
I will be out of pocket on 8/14 but pretty much any Sunday after that would probably work in the evening. I’m on Eastern Time.
Total posts : 45366Team Speak uses far less bandwidth than Skype and 56k is more than enough to use it. It does not require a web cam and really is not meant for web cams, just voice.
If you can navigate and work a facebook page or an instant messenger program or a 3G/4G phone or even a simple cell phone, or this forum, you can handle Team Speak.
RFB
Total posts : 45366A serious network organization will need to develop guidelines for management of program rights, which includes the rights questions about playing music, reporting responsibilities, relating not only to musicians and recording associations, but also the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) for stations that stream on the internet.
The requirements are different for A.) stations that only transmit personally at home; B.) stations that reach a surrounding community; C.) commercial stations; D.) non-commercial stations; E.) educational stations.
The requirements are so complex in some cases that a network might need to seek a media copyright attorney to provide guidance. That might mean that the network needs a budget, and what I detect are many of us who can barely afford to run a single station.
Network management in general might demand having its own staff to keep things organized and on schedule.
Total posts : 45366Part of the reason we need to have this meeting is to get all of things Carl is talking about.
I have ways to deal with the RIAA and keep our stations legal.
But we need to be talking in real time as it would be a mega post on this forum to get all the ideas out to each other.Next week is fine for me of it works for you all.
friday would be great .
Total posts : 45366I downloaded and installed the Team Speak client.
Now to figure out which server we’re using.
Total posts : 45366Sorry mram.
the password is part15
The server is http://server.dirtsim.com:30001
be sure to use the port number.
Total posts : 45366I only use linux. I don’t have a windows computer whatsoever. I got sick of malware and replaced windows with Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS. Will team speak work with linux?
Total posts : 45366OK! Everything is set and working.
When I enter the server info into Team Speak, I typed in only “server.dirtsim.com:30001” dropping the “http://” and that works. It doesn’t like having the “http://” as part of the server address.
Now we just need some more participants.
Total posts : 45366I use ubuntu also.
yes TS works with it.
Total posts : 45366I reviewed Lefty Gomez’ opening statement, which contains the sketch of an agenda for the proposed Team Speak meeting. I will summarize it here, and add comments:
1. Working Name – The National Association of Low Power Broadcasters Network (TNAOLPBN):
2. Meeting will take place via Team Speak;
3. Network programming to be Good for the Public;
4. Meeting will be recorded and posted;
5. Association/Network will not be owned by anyone;
6. All part 15 stations to be welcome as members.
Regarding Item # 1 …
Association and network, in this context, refer to two different objectives. The “association” would be, in essence, a part 15 advocacy group, organized to strengthen the standing of part 15 stations and seek refinements of the rules. Meanwhile, the “network” would be a collective program source to distribute part 15 radio programs from a central point. These two objectives need to be discussed separately and viewed as two distinct functions;
Regarding Item # 2 … “Team Speak”…… I am personally unfamiliar with TS and would need to conduct a study to learn the technical requirements and discover whether TS is compatible with our stream server, which runs on the computer. I will be unable to mount such a study in the near future;
Regarding Item # 3 … “Network programming must be ‘Good for the Public'” Comment: this might conflict with Item # 6 in some cases. If TNAOLPBN is “un-owned”, who, then, will “judge” “what is good for the public?” The Christian faction may want to disallow the atheists, the political activists might be at odds with the strictly conservative. Programs with commercial content might not be acceptable for non-commercial stations. Talk stations might wish to avoid music content.
Regarding Item # 4 … “Meeting will be recorded and posted.” This is great because sound bites will become available as “Low Power in the News” on the LPH;
Regarding Item # 5 … The Association/Network will not be owned by anyone. See “Regarding Item # 3.”
Regarding Item # 6 … “All Part 15 stations welcome” What about a possible X-rated station or a paramilitary station broadcasting instructions for “building smart-missles”?
Final comment: One night a friend gave me a tour of the CBS station where he worked. He showed me two giant blue binders containing the CBS “Standards and Practices”. That’s what CBS ended up with in trying to “define themselves in words,” which is exactly the future faced by TNAOLPBN. In fact, human progress in general is widely stunted because of the systems and regulations that have been put in place in the attempt to “do it right.”
Rich Powers, do you feel a cartoon coming on? “I can’t afford my part 15 station, so let’s start a network!”
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