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Post by part15engineer on Dec 17, 2020 19:56:59 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 29, 2021 22:38:27 GMT
For those concerned, the FCC is supposed to implement the new Anti-Piracy law April 26th, 2021. However, it seems Congress forgot the FCC said they need $11 million to do that. Read the latest here: April Fools
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Post by mark on Mar 30, 2021 0:05:59 GMT
How do they figure on collecting millions$ from an average person with a CZH Chinese transmitter ? Unrealistic fine amounts. Higher fines than before won't make much of a difference but more chance of getting busted with sweeps and increased enforcement may. Part 15 is exempt but do property owners know the difference between part 15 and pirate? I'll bet a very few even know what part 15 is. Here in Canada 99.9% of the population doesn't know what the part 15 equivalent here is. I'm afraid that uninformed landlords will tell a tenant with a certified Procaster you can't do this here even though they can. This isn't a situation in Canada fortunately.
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2021 20:01:28 GMT
I can't imagine they would go out of their way to pinch a guy/gal running a couple watts or so.
They've got real problems with Pirates covering large areas taking revenue from commercial stations, whether they are actually causing harmful interference to other stations/services or not.
One of their reasons is the Pirates not using EAS notifications which could be a problem in an emergency situation.
Yes, a couple watts is still way over the legal limits by percentage but unless it's a dirty transmitter causing harmful interference... it would take someone to complain.
Perhaps the FCC should look at working solutions for hobby broadcasters such as New Zealand where one watt at the top of the dial is OK.
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Post by thelegacy on Apr 1, 2021 8:15:01 GMT
300 mW on FM into 6 Ft of wire with the transmitter on the floor can go 1 1/2 easily and spotty up to sometimes 3 miles out. Had the FCC allowed 1xWatt on 87.7 or 87.1 I would have been very happy.
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2021 13:31:10 GMT
RAG FM in New Zealand, Jonhny C, runs a great station. With one watt into an outside vertical antenna, he easily covers several kilometers. (RAGFM.COM)
These hobby broadcasters seem to be self regulating, avoiding interfering with each other or commercial/other services.
I don't know if their government regulating agency requires licensing or over-site.
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Post by part15engineer on Apr 5, 2021 16:12:52 GMT
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Post by mark on Apr 6, 2021 16:26:01 GMT
So in New Zealand the transmitter still has to be certified to be legal in that country I see. Wonder what transmitters are?
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Post by Boomer on Apr 6, 2021 18:09:59 GMT
Paul Riismandel, a host on the Radio Survivor show heard some of these stations in New Zealand when he took a trip there, and talked about it on one of the episodes a few years back.
He found information locally about stations and tuned them in. Some were not on the air, others had lots of music, one had programming that was out of date.
radiosurvivor.com/
You may be able to search for the article there, and the accompanying show.
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Post by thelegacy on Apr 10, 2021 20:36:56 GMT
Johnny C runs a Great show.
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