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New Bill Passed (the Local Community Radio Act of 2009) H. R. 1147

New Bill Passed (the Local Community Radio Act of 2009) H. R. 1147

This will allow more LPFM stations on the air and cancels out the third adjacent channel rule. But i see some good and bad things coming out of all this.

More noise on the already crowded fm band while new lpfm stations small signal fighting to be heard through the iboc hash and bleed over from high powered radio stations.

Without channel guards in place the fm band will be a sea of noise, lpfm stations do not stand a snowballs chance in hell and the same can be said for part 15 fm as well. I don’t think part 15 fm will survive.
AM and shortwave look pretty good to me right now in fact there is a whole bunch of frequencies out there just waiting for experimentation.

I would like your opinions on this new development, maybe i am looking at this all wrong.

View the bill: http://www.al-ba.com/HR1147.pdf