Mark

Yes that would be nice. I think that’s what Artisan did for a few years and I think he got power and audio to it with long cables.

Welcome back Artisan. Thought you disappeared.

The houses are close together on this street. Lots of houses on the block.
in the main circle the distance between the two streets on the block where my house is is 660 ft. so I am getting out 300 to 400 ft each way except for that dip to the south. The small circle on the right is the top floors of a retirement home.
This is with a receiver like…[Read more]

Glad you are OK. Looks like that FM one has the Canadian certification too.

Looks good, but I think it’s the sites anti-spam that does this but not all the time. Maybe that browser will let you post all the time without the access denied message.

Canada’s BETS-1 has the CRTC rules on programing in writing. Nothing hateful, political, religious, keep it clean. And nothing rebroadcast(like a baseball game).
Here’s the rules from the CRTC for unlicensed ultra low power stations…..BETS-1

As a low power station the service is exempt from most CRTC content requirements as long as it respects…[Read more]

And I plead guilty in leading the original intent of the thread to a somewhat related but different issue.
My mistake.

Of all the songs in my era maybe 1 out of every hundred is “bad” in my mind so out of all of them only a very few fall into the “don’t like for content category” 99% of the others are good and those few won’t be missed.
Some songs the meaning isn’t straight forward and a lot of interpretation is needed and 10 people my have a different idea of the…[Read more]

Itcycoo Park was about a guy telling his girlfriend to skip school and school is for fools anyway and we’ll go to the park and take drugs.
Brown Sugar is about slavery and one slaver who’s a real cool guy whipping and raping his slave girl and his son getting his too.
I won’t play songs like this.
These are just two examples. A song doesn’t have…[Read more]

To add… certain songs that are about not good things like “Brown Sugar” by the Stones or “Itchycoo Park” Small Faces for example and some others will never by played on my station.

They’d sure like mine. Nothing bad there….well mostly all family clean. A few songs are adult content like “Lightning Strikes” by Lou Christie but it’s in a different way.
There’s also “Steamy Windows” by Tina Turner, same example. But that’s not at all what Legacy is referring to. No place for swearing, vulgarity, or other stuff like that on radio.

The 100 klz spacing would allow for a while lot more stations but I assume not as good fidelity.

Surprised as I always though those were approved with number. On the label or something. Guess they all aren’t.

I don’t think that RFCC Lebanon was encouraging operation in excess of part 15.239 just reporting on a few models of off the shelf car plug in FM transmitters people would get to here an MP3 player in the car which I’m sure have the FCC # on it. He did not say they were modified in any way. Just saying which one worked the best. Although 225 feet…[Read more]

Radio Joe has some great points. Becoming activists could backfire and you could loose what there is now.
Like no listeners and no complaints!
But a subsection to part 15 would be good to allow the equivalent of BETS-1(Canada) on FM.
I think Michelle Bradley, REC president, write to the FCC about that.
But the stats show that radio does quite well…[Read more]