http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060924/ap_on_bi_ … te_radio_1
Little clipping. I mention it because there's a pirate radio station in Butte, anyone know about it? :)
Little clipping. I mention it because there's a pirate radio station in Butte, anyone know about it? :)
nope
toby schmidt stoked
awesome quote:
"The neon sign says "ON AIR" at the storefront KNOZ station in Sacramento, Calif., even though broadcaster William Major was fined $10,000 by the FCC in June. Major says he's been wrongly painted as a pirate station, and that the FCC just overlooked his license application which he says is still pending. And the fine? "It's 10 G's," he said. "I don't have 10 G's. But they're being real gentleman about it, you know what I mean? They gave us the fine and they're letting us do our thing.""
awesome quote:
"The neon sign says "ON AIR" at the storefront KNOZ station in Sacramento, Calif., even though broadcaster William Major was fined $10,000 by the FCC in June. Major says he's been wrongly painted as a pirate station, and that the FCC just overlooked his license application which he says is still pending. And the fine? "It's 10 G's," he said. "I don't have 10 G's. But they're being real gentleman about it, you know what I mean? They gave us the fine and they're letting us do our thing.""
They shut down a 10 Watt station? Lame. That thing would only be heard for a few blocks. Admittedly, some of the more lewd programs should not be available to minors, but that is easily fixed with some good ol' fashioned parenting.
Anyone else agree that the FCC should be reduced back to its original purpose of assigning and administering bandwidths and frequencies--not censoring, etc?
i bet a 10 watt am station would cover all of bozeman.
phi: i don't know... of course i'm against censoring, but if it has to be done, then the fcc should be the agency to do it.
phi: i don't know... of course i'm against censoring, but if it has to be done, then the fcc should be the agency to do it.
Right, but it shouldn't be done. That's the problem.
From the FCC
> "The minimum power for a standard FM broadcast station which a construction permit applicant may request is 100 watts (0.100 kilowatts). "
> "Stations authorized in the new LPFM service will operate with effective radiated powers (ERP) between 1 watt (0.001 kW) and 100 watts (0.100 kW). In any case, the distance to the 1 mV/m (60 dBu) contour from an LPFM station or application will not be permitted to exceed a reference distance of 5.6 km. LPFM applications which would require operation with less than 1 watt ERP will not be accepted for filing."
I guess they really don't want Billy Bob to have the early morning bathroom report.
Source:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/lowpwr.html
> "The minimum power for a standard FM broadcast station which a construction permit applicant may request is 100 watts (0.100 kilowatts). "
> "Stations authorized in the new LPFM service will operate with effective radiated powers (ERP) between 1 watt (0.001 kW) and 100 watts (0.100 kW). In any case, the distance to the 1 mV/m (60 dBu) contour from an LPFM station or application will not be permitted to exceed a reference distance of 5.6 km. LPFM applications which would require operation with less than 1 watt ERP will not be accepted for filing."
I guess they really don't want Billy Bob to have the early morning bathroom report.
Source:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/lowpwr.html
well, that's for fm. are these guys making am transmitters or fm? it seems to me that it for the ones made in the camp that are the size of a brick, they are probably am.
>"The minimum power for an AM broadcast station which a construction permit applicant may request is 250 watts (0.250 kilowatts). Alternatively, if an effective radiated power of less than 250 watts is sought, an equivalent RMS value of at least 141 millivolts per meter (mV/m) at a distance of 1 km from the tower site must be proposed."
A little steeper power requirements.
A little steeper power requirements.