Mac, I was on the original board of our two NPR stations, one classical music 24 hours a day and the other NPR 24 hours a day. They were on adjacent FM frequencies.
A non-commercial, low power church station (from somewhere in Kansas as I recall) got a frequency just between the two. It's only a couple miles from my house yes overpowers the others without careful tuning on an analog FM radio. This may be what you are referring to. They are non-profit yet spend a lot of time trying to get money which, apparently, more than pays for the station. I expect that the lobby to promote these things, which now liberally dot our spectrum, was from these sources. It's a nightmare for me since they are directly under the SAT glidepath and incoming large jets create temporary multipath and my AFC will jump to that "in-between" station when the multipath phase cancellation on one of the public radio stations hits. I'll just have to buy a digitally synthesized radio for the bedroom. I wrote the FCC on behalf of the stations but it didn't help. In the letter I predicted the consequences (before they were granted that frequency) and they have become realized. Sorry to rant...just had to unload. . . . j o n a t h a n -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mac Dearman Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:00 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] Radio station app -----Original Message----- Behalf Of Doug Ratcliffe **FYI - A reminder to people out there interested in starting a noncommercial radio station (for whatever reason), applications must be recieved between Oct 12 and Oct 19, 2007, and the application itself costs nothing... I have kicked around the idea of starting a radio station, but am unsure what you meant by "non commercial" station. Does this mean you can't get paid for advertising? Thanks, Mac -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
