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Total posts : 45366“I joined Part15 dot us and have not looked back.”
But you just did look back.
Total posts : 45366Good one Carl! Sometimes you come out with some great comments.
What was I doing?…if it was a weekend I was up at the cottage, if it was a weekday I was waiting for the weekend to go to the cottage.
Mark
Total posts : 45366Mark recalls: “I was up at the cottage.”
What’s at the cottage? You got part 15 there?
Total posts : 45366Just starting part 15 then and yes took it to the cottage.
Part 15, BETS-1 here, is portable…you can take it anywhere.
Mark
Total posts : 45366If you had plenty of cottages next to yours you probably had plenty of listeners. I thought about that a few places I’ve traveled. Imagine if I had started a FM station while I was there.
Total posts : 45366We must agree to revisit the places of our memory and build radio stations there.
Total posts : 45366I am now looking forward and I see you Carl on my magic forward looing mirror.
Total posts : 45366I was in the process of starting over after a nasty divorce. I had lost everything after nearly 20 years of marriage. I learned never give power of attorney to anyone, even a wife whom you trusted. We were supposed to be moving across country back home to Texas. I went ahead, and she would follow, like we had done in the past. The beginning of a novel… perhaps!
I went back to NC for a short period of time in 2015 in an attempt to see what went wrong. During that time, I actually was one of two finalists interviewing at a prominent university in NC for Director of Technology over their School of Engineering in the month(s) prior to January 2016. I recused myself during the final interview because my heart wasn’t in it. I continued my move to back home to Texas after that.
I left a world of Information Technology and took my skills to the oilfield. I helped build and design two oil drilling rigs. One of which has been used as a pattern for later models. It was a big change from the world I had been in, but I grew up around the oilfield, though I never worked in it. At the time it provided me the respit I needed to recover.
As it turned out, it was the best thing that could have happened. I ended up back home in Texas where I belong. I have much less stress most of the time. Though my retirement is gone (my retirement was in real estate investments), I sleep well at night and guilt free. My life is much better and I married someone who is more concerned about me than I am at times. Its a nice change.
Most importantly, I now play with Part 15 radio.
So, January, 26th 2006, I was working outside on what was probably a warm winter Texas day laughing about lifes quirks and twists. I also was thinking, (and I do remember saying this) “I can actually spell most of the words I use…can you?” Somedays it was a challenge communicating to the herd of welders that were working with us.
Total posts : 45366Your town looks a lot like TIB’s town(s).
Total posts : 45366I heard that certain American Indians believe the past is in front of them rather than behind them because when they think about the past they don’t have to turn around and look in reverse.
Could that mean that in the past is a view of the future, as may have been discovered in CraigF’s story of winning through losing?
Which doesn’t bring me to the point of writing, which is a suggestion for CraigF who hopes to provide his berg with good radio.
The minimum power allowed for licensed AM operation is 250 Watts.
That could come as a surprise because one doesn’t hear much about anything less than 1 kW daytime power, yet the Rules haven’t changed as you can see for yourself.
Perhaps Mr. F could bring in a consulting engineer to find an open frequency and arrange to build his Jacksboro dream.
Total posts : 45366While CraigF checks into starting a 250 Watt AM station for Jacksboro, he might also find it useful to know that the minimum power allowed for a Class A FM station is 100 Watts, and higher power is available in the same category.
Q. But Carl Blare, isn’t that an LPFM station?
Carl: No, no, normally I’d charge a $10k consulting fee to tell you that we are talking about commercially licensed radio.
Part 15ers are pessimistic because they typically can’t afford a $300 transmitter and are unable to build kits, but just over the window sill is a world of possibility that may not be as out of reach as one thinks.
I did, and look at me now.
Total posts : 45366Mr. John WDCX Druid Hills wondered what was happening on January 26, 2006 and I looked back in my Daily Schedule and Logs…
It was a Thursday and being near the end of the month it was bill paying day, and I ordered stamps using a mail-in form from USPS.
That same day I hired 2-Men and a Truck to transfer a 150-pound wide-screen Sony CRT Television from my sister’s place to mine. She had puchased a thin-profile wider LCD television and donated her whale-sized Sony.
The TV/Video Monitor still works and provides wonderful picture quality once per year when I watch television.
Of course KDX was on the air but didn’t get mentioned in my notes.
Total posts : 45366You have brought up an interesting point or two. I have considered going commercial at times. Money is always an issue as I do seem to run a bit shy of where I would like to be with my money for hobbies etc. That is more so true these days as our area is somewhat economically needing a bit of antidepressant.
I am always looking for opportunities. I just haven’t heard the hinges creak on the door yet. Rest assured, if I hear it I will stick my fingers in the opening and rip it open… Commercial, LPFM or ???
Like I did that poor gal’s hotel room door in New Haven Connecticut one evening…. The hotel gave me the wrong keys to the room I had reserved. She was surprised as I threw the door open…. I was surprised as she screamed. She was more surprised when I said.. “nice”. The hotel manager was surprised when he was reprimanded by the female customer. I think she was surprised again later that evening when I ran into her (outside of her room), and I didn’t ask her for dinner or a drink. I am surprised I remembered this!
Total posts : 45366Not necessarily.
In the recent posting I may have been wrong in saying that KDX was operating back in 2006…
KDX didn’t begin test streaming until March 29, 2007 at 7:20 PM, but was already broadcasting with an AMT3000 built around that time.
Unless it wasn’t.
It is vital and essential that our history gets set down with perfect accuracy so that our progeny can know exactly what we did and when we did it, realizing it will never be clear why.
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