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Post by Admin on May 26, 2018 0:37:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 1:20:05 GMT
Sign Off Time for Criminal Pastors
No one comes to church, the pastors are trying to be heard through radio, but it's a sin!
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Post by Admin on May 26, 2018 1:47:10 GMT
Sign Off Time for Criminal PastorsNo one comes to church, the pastors are trying to be heard through radio, but it's a sin! Actually I have one of those "streaming boxes" mentioned towards the end of the article. I bought the "TV Box" on ebay for $40. They claimed that you could watch any program on broadcast or cable TV for free, and that it was 100% legal. I didn't believe that was possible, and I only bought it because I figured it would do the same duty as a Roku and was cheaper. When I first bought it I fooled with it a little then put it away, not impressed. Well that was before I had had my surgery to remove my cataracts and correct my astigmatism so anything I did with it I had to be sitting right in front of the 50" TV to see the menus and options. A few weeks ago, after my surgery, I got it out again and was amazed. It seems to do what it claims and we are watching tons of programs and movies not available elsewhere, and for free! |
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Post by Boomer on May 26, 2018 2:47:23 GMT
I hadn't heard about this at all, just years ago when Pastor Strawcutter was running 99 watts from his church as a protest of rules that wouldn't allow stations under 100 watts to be on the air.
Otherwise, I thought church stations would try to avoid problems over the rules. I've read about drive-in churches where people will park around the church to hear the pastor's sermon over low power radio without setting foot in the building.
I've heard a few churches on the air myself, and they seemed to be Part-15, at least what I knew of it at the time, pretty much with the strong signal just on the grounds and drops after that. I can see how that would be a good idea to reach a few souls in the surrounding community, and hope they're not Part-15s being chased after now!
I like this line in the article:
"Which is why it is reassuring to see the hard line
that continues to be taken on the cutting edge of
modern media consumption: pirate radio."
Part Fifteen is also cutting edge. The article might be getting at a good point, could some of the pirate problem be a distraction discussions of Net Neutrality?
Another thing is, I wonder if there are church-based low power radio organizations, maybe we could make contact and partner with them somehow.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 3:12:50 GMT
Church Work
During my recording studio years I had many many religious clients... the organized religions do far more audio-visual projects than most people realize.
Twice I was referred to churches that had declining attendance, and out of a sincere attempt to attract more souls, the pastors figured that good wireless microphones might allow more interesting contact with the people sitting in their pews.
That always struck me funny... they sat in the pew.
I don't know if the wireless mics helped or not but what I'm getting to is that churches could easily be sold on having drive-in radio stations in their parking area.
But just suggesting it to them isn't enough. One would have to be prepared to offer a full installation service, and if it didn't work perfectly there would be complaints to deal with.
Most pastors are unlikely to install their own stations.
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Post by Admin on May 26, 2018 4:50:15 GMT
There is an Indianapois Part 15 Gospel station, WTGR on 1700 or 1710 running a Procaster who claims a 4-6 mile coverage area. Look for him on Youtube and you will see it is obvious he is in violation of the ground lead rules, but to the best of my knowledge he is still on the air. Church WorkDuring my recording studio years I had many many religious clients... the organized religions do far more audio-visual projects than most people realize. Twice I was referred to churches that had declining attendance, and out of a sincere attempt to attract more souls, the pastors figured that good wireless microphones might allow more interesting contact with the people sitting in their pews. That always struck me funny... they sat in the pew. I don't know if the wireless mics helped or not but what I'm getting to is that churches could easily be sold on having drive-in radio stations in their parking area. But just suggesting it to them isn't enough. One would have to be prepared to offer a full installation service, and if it didn't work perfectly there would be complaints to deal with. Most pastors are unlikely to install their own stations. |
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Post by thelegacy on May 29, 2018 5:03:07 GMT
From what I understand he's in a real Park of Indianapolis. And apparently people like his station because there is no station with that sort of programming in the local community.
I hope he doesn't become another victim of an urban legend and ends up with a notice of unlicensed operation but I am thinking it's because he's never caused any competition with any of the big radio stations.
The more I have talked to my broadcast engineer friend the more he has warned me not to try and compete with the big stations. I do try to play things that they do not on purpose because I don't want to copy what they do.
Somewhere I don't remember where I read it but there was a church that did get in trouble for going over the limit. In fact I think it was quite recently looking at the list of nouo activity.
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