[BC] LPFM

[Chuck Lakaytis]

I am in favor of a 1 watt service.  The antenna would consist of a 20 db
attenuator on the coaxial line.  The output of the attenuator would feed the
control room monitor.  Then the station would be assured of transmitting to
the chosen few that liked Albanian Folk Music.

Spoken as one who was a CE at one of the first Community Stations in the US,
KOPN-FM, Columbia, Mo.

God, were we full of ourselves.

>From someone who has a viral infection that has gone into my ears, eyes, and
now my inner ear.  Can you say fall on your ass when you try to stand up.

My workmates are hauling my commodious butt off to the doctors office.  The
HMO operator wanted to know if I was a member of the GREEN team.  I asked
did that mean I had to show up with something to recycle besides my puke.

She failed to see the humor.

Later, I hope,

I remain your courteous and dutiful servant, etc. and etc.

People signed their names like that once upon a time...imagine that!

Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Anchorage, Alaska
907 277 6300
907 301 4339 (cell)


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Dana Puopolo
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [BC] LPFM

I have always believed there should be a 1 watt FM license for colleges.
Both Australia and Canada have VLP (very low power; under 5 watts) licenses
and they serve them quite well.

-D

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Subject: [BC] LPFM

In a message dated 07/19/2006 2:04:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
SBailey at nespower.com writes:

 >    People should consider LPAM or doing Part 15 FM.  The big boys are
 >  policing the FM band too heavy, but act as they could care less about
 >  AM.

The problem with P15 Fm is that the range, by definition, is useless. If P15
for FM was 100 milliwatts, *that* would be useful, but that just ain't so.
Someone here calculated it out to be some ludicrous number in the 
NANOwatt range:
In the real world, that's useless for anything beyond about arm's length.

To be 100% legal with the P15 FM rules, your signal would only have a radius
of about 100' on a very clear frequency to a good receiver, direct
line-of-sight.

Willie...


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