[BC] LPAM (was Smallest AM Radiator/TIS)

Wed Jul 19 12:00:32 CDT 2006

They call you and put on a big spill to get your money.  We have been
paying them $45.00 a month for nothing. They have not done a damn thing
for me! I get more action from the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters
(TAB) than I do the NAB! My investment in TAB has been worth it! 
I see where they are lobbing the FCC for FM Translators for AM's that
run flea powers at night. That will never happen.  Too many religious
broadcasters like KLOVE will knock that down, plus I'm sure NPR will
have something to say about that as well.

Scott

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Dana Puopolo
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In the seventies, a friend of mine was manager of a (then) class D FM at
a
college. They were an NAB member, proudly displaying their NAB
membership
sticker on the door to the station. One day..the NAB decided to support
ELIMINATING all class D FM stations!! 
Needless to say, they got an earfull from him, and that ststion quite
the NAB
pronto.

The NAB is useless for the small station. They are simply a lobbying arm
for
the big boys...

-D

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Dana,
   That's one of the reasons why I may be dropping as an NAB member.
They have proven to me (and I have even argued with them on the phone)
that they are not for the small broadcasters. They just want my money
and not do a damn thing for me!

Scott

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It will be the NAB that's yelling the loudest...

-D

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Dave,
  Then, what would it take, "an act of congress" to force the commission
to change the rules in part 15 AM?  I think that a full 1/2 watt would
be o.k. for Part 15, but I'm sure somebody will yell, INTERFERENCE! MAKE
THEM TURN IT OFF!

Scott

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In a message dated 7/19/2006 7:15:37 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
rfry at adams.net writes:

>>  Rule 15.209  does not define anything about tx power or  antenna
>> system gain/efficiency, only that the peak field strength  in
>> microvolts/meter when measured 30 meters away from  the
>> antenna cannot exceed [24,000/Operating Freq in   kilohertz].

Phil Alexander responded:
>I had to read that one  myself. ...Operation on 600 kHz is permitted
> twice the FI as on 1200  kHz while, in fact, it should be the opposite
> to account for  propagation attenuation which is far greater at
>1200 kHz than at 600  kHz.
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However the useful fields permitted under 15.209  in the AM broadcast
band 
are gone long before ground conductivity plays a  significant part in
them, 
no matter what the frequency.

RF  

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Similar to the old college radio carrier current stations.  This is  why
many 
of them were on the low band clear channel stations 660,640,670 700
etc.  I 
you couldn't hear them normally you would use them for your carrier
current 
frequency because you were allowed to radio a distance of 15
microvolts/per 
meter.   This made it nearly two hundred feet from a  power line at 640
kHz. as 
I recall from KSMU days in Dallas.  

Dave Hultsman

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