[BC] Ramsey fined for selling unauthorized FM transmitters

[DANA PUOPOLO]

Part 15 should allow low power (100 milliwatt ERP) FM transmitters that can
cover a college campus, as opposed to a "wireless microphone"  type that goes
about 25 feet. If the FCC allowed this, I'll bet you'd find a lot fewer 1 watt
'kits' sold.

Other countries ROUTINELY allow low power broadcasting. Australia has a two
watt FM license. Our "enlightened" FCC got rid of the class D station, only to
then fill the non com band with out of state "satellitors"!  Personally, I'd
rather have a local station in my community - but we CAN'T have that, CAN WE?

THEN they protect the satellators from encroachment by LOCAL LPFM stations
(which can't be allocated in most large cities, because their mileage
separations protect 100 watt class A directional stations as if they were 6 kW
non-d ones!).

Don't get me started about the incompetance, graft and politicizing at that
"public" agency!

-D

PS: many FCC staffers I've talked to agree with me. In the case of the FCC,
the stink flows down from the TOP!


------ Original Message ------
Received: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:46:20 PM PST
From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Ramsey fined for selling unauthorized FM transmitters

How so?

DANA PUOPOLO wrote:
> Yeah.
> 
> What Bull**it! The FCC is about 30 years out of date with this Part 15
rule.
> 
> -D
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:01:14 PM PST
> From: "Richard Fry" <rfry at adams.net>
> To: "Broadcast List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Subject: [BC] Ramsey fined for selling unauthorized FM transmitters
> 
> Paul Smith wrote:
> 
>>I've been wondering for a long time when the axe would fall on them.
>>There are thousands of their transmitters around.  A pirates favorite.
> 
> _____________
> 
> Which is related to the fact that the maximum, legal Part 15 FM field of 
> 250 uV/m at a 3-m radius from the tx antenna is generated by applying ~11.4

> nW to a 1/2-wave dipole -- which is thousands of times less power than 
> generated by many "Part 15" FM transmitters.
> 
> RF 
> 
> 
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