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Total posts : 45366Well, there ARE cars, so this premise seems a bit silly….sort of like, without cars, gas stations would be dead or without cars windshields would be dead.
Total posts : 45366Good old fashion radio is free, no monthly fees….the freedom of the airwaves.
All this “new” stuff you have to pay for. It takes a lot of money for those smart phones to work and get the internet to get the stream. Saw that Sony now makes a DAB radio(portable) for the USA market….check out the price…$599!!!
Cars will always have an AM/FM radio
And in the future if regular radio gets less and less listeners and stations vacate for the options, MORE FOR US.
Long live part15 and BETS-1 radio.
We will keep it alive.
Mark
Total posts : 45366I’d like to think if Radio was starting to die off that the FCC would awaken and give hobby broadcasters More Legal Power.
However I think there is going to be a time the FCC will have no other choice and this could still make money for the FCC. What could happen is a Hobby Broadcaster tax that is paid when you buy a transmitter. Instead of say 4% sales tax the tax would be 15%-20% which would go to the FCC to keep them a float. Maybe somewhere the music industry would have their grubby hands in it as well so maybe close to 25% tax for every High powered Hobby Transmitter. There will be some way that this country will find a way to make a killing on this and thus allow it.
Total posts : 45366“I don’t think, I know.”
“I don’t think, from start to finish, and I don’t intend to.”
Another strong place for radio is job sites and offices. Painters and other outdoor workers always seem to be listening to the radio, jamming to the radio in the dash of work trucks. Lots of offices still block streaming, so FM radio is popular there, sometimes over the PA, with a different station played every day of the week so people aren’t left out.
Music helps with productivity, the people behind Muzak have said.
Please support spelling check on P15us, thank you
Total posts : 45366Funny thing you mention Radio and businesses as when my Wife was seeing doctors for her hernia in Gloucester, VA where is a family owned licensed Radio station on 99.1 FM WXGM (I Think) the station calls themselves extra 99.1 FM. Their format changes from Oldies to Pop Rock depending on the day.
Mr. Robinson is well known there. Anyway I noticed at the cafeteria the woman who takes names and gives out FREE food had her CD Boom box tuned to that station. I did talk with her a bit as I myself was encouraged to talk to that station via my Stepmom who’s house is 800 Ft from their transmitter. You can see the tower from her house. Of course she told them about my part 15 station and I was scared because I didn’t know if he’d try and get my butt fried as I’m hobby Radio and he is a licensed broadcaster (More on that later). The moral is that people do like family ran stations and they really support them because they are not forced to play chart crap. This Gloucester, VA station is 6,000 watts.
OK now for Mr. Robinson’s view on Hobby Radio broadcasting even slightly overpowered. I asked him what he thought of 1 Watt for hobby broadcasters and if they used 87.7 and 87.9 instead of the FM band 88.1-107.9 Mhz. He said he wishes that the ONLY frequencies these hobby broadcaster’s would use were 87.7 and 87.9 Mhz. I was invited to visit the station too. I just may and see if I can get him as a part of the New Radio Revolution. If I can get licensed broadcasters to say that on record to the FCC we’ll get our 87.7 and 87.9 Mhz. I asked about part 15 AM or Hobby AM and he said more power to the hobby broadcaster if that is where they want to go with 1 Watt. He only had some concern with AM. He just asked me to be careful with 100.1 as I could still bleed 99.1 on an al cheapo Radio. Maybe we can get people like him to help with a petition to force the 0.9 uV sensitivity on all Radio’s and the same selectivity as German home stereo receivers like Blaupankt, Luxman, Rotel, Macintosh, Carver, Yamaha, Old technics (1979 first Digital quartz lock loop). We need to impose steep fines for poorly produced receivers. A good receiver can handle a nearby 1 Watt signal with bleed over no more than 30 feet and 7 Watts with no more than 250 Feet of FM wash out. Radio’s that have poor selectivity in the USA need to be banned from store shelves so that people can receive Radio stations like they should. Then and only then can Hobby Radio broadcasting exist without bothering commercial stations.
So now you know how a licensed station feels about Hobby Radio. I suppose not everyone is evil against us. I didn’t ask him if he is a part of the NAB but I bet not since his station is not corporate and he stated he likes small stations better than corporate Radio stations. So it tells me that he may not be NAB. Also if I do go to the studio I’ll learn more stuff about broadcasting as well as try and get more folks to join The New Radio Revolution. We need licensed stations on our side and if I can show these folks that I’m not about causing havoc to the folks like him on FM I think we can get somewhere. I’m still scared just a bit I’ll admit, but my Step Mom said I really need to make a good impression in order to push the New Radio Revolution group.
Total posts : 45366“I’d like to think if Radio was starting to die off that the FCC would awaken and give hobby broadcasters More Legal Power.”
I’d like to think that too, but it’s unlikely. because there would be a substantial increase the public tuning in with their obsolete radios, and the big broadcasters wouldn’t allow it
Total posts : 45366“So now you know how a licensed station feels about Hobby Radio. I suppose not everyone is evil against us. I didn’t ask him if he is a part of the NAB but I bet not since his station is not corporate and he stated he likes small stations better than corporate Radio stations. So it tells me that he may not be NAB”
That’s what I’ve been saying all along 🙂
I’d venture to guess most radio stations associate with the NAB in some form or fashion, for the real guys the NAB is almost too useful a tool to ignore. If not the NAB, then certainly the state’s association of broadcasters. (Much like the full power I’m at deals with the TAB, Texas Association Of Broadcasters, far more than the NAB)
Total posts : 45366Hmmm Well it makes sense if The New Radio Revolution can make friends with Licensed stations and show that we mean to get along or even help their cause as well.
If Radio dies off even hobby broadcasters won’t have listeners so we have to get along with the big boys. If we can show that we can help in the long run to bring more people to the Radio I believe we may get some brotherly understanding.
It starts with the small family stations like Extra 99.1 FM because who knows he may have started as part 15 I didn’t have time to ask a thousand questions.
If I get on his good side maybe I can have him check my Whole House 3 with his spectrum analyzer and any other transmitter I plan to operate. Of course it would most likely have to be tested in a cave so as not to get him into any trouble. I think the FCC would allow so many feet underground for testing. The question is how many feet will I need to go in order for teh FM signal to be obsorbed by the ground? This way we could do safe harmonic and spur testing.
Roam is not made in a day but I want to be friends with these folks because this could help all of us here.
Total posts : 45366In all honesty I have no idea why you think licensed broadcasters would have a problem with you. Most of the people involved are in it because they like radio, though there are more than a few that are in it for the money. Either way, a pea-shooter AM is of little threat to a full power. FM however is a whole different thing, FM is valued.
Total posts : 45366He *is* talking about FM.
Total posts : 45366Wow. This morphed.
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