[Noisebridge-discuss] The Radio gauntlet is not tossed.
giovanni_re
john_re at fastmail.us
Tue Sep 17 07:20:37 UTC 2013
Norman - Great stuff here!
I think it would be great if you put some of this on the NB Radio page.
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/NB_Radio
Do you have a wiki account yet?
It only takes a minute to set up.
The links are especially important.
Would you like to put this on the page?
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013, at 06:22 PM, Norman Bradley wrote:
> A while back people were talking about getting a part of the Radio
> Spectrum for Noisebridge. Well here it is. I can work out the technical
> parts but somebody else needs to take care of the filings. The window of
> opportunity is October 15-29, 2013 and for the first time urban stations
> will be allowed. The license holder must have been in the community for
> at least 2 years.
>
> The range is about 10 miles although given our location at the bottom of
> a valley I wouldn't bet on it. With this power it is line-of-sight. We
> should be able to hit Dolores Park and most of the Market Street area
> from the Civic Center North. Bayview and Hunter's Point? Forget it there
> is a hill in the way. These are just guesses.
>
> We need to prove that we won't interfere with existing stations. That
> starts with just walking around the Mission and listening to your FM
> Radio. The more technical details I will work out with some modeling
> software later.
>
> The FCC is giving extra points to stations that will be on the air at
> least 20 hours a day and is "publicly accessible". A good time to reach
> out to our neighbors. I am assuming that some of that can be
> pre-recorded or streamed in from the net. If it is coming over the net
> we will need to be very careful about who has access. There's that whole
> no profanity rule.
>
> So let us get K - - - on the air. KNOS, NBRG, KNOI are all taken and it
> must start with a K, West of the Mississippi and all.
>
> So here are some of the relevant web sites:
> The original article from John Hightower:
> http://otherwords.org/get-radio-active/
> The Prometheus Radio Project, "Freeing the airwaves from corporate
> control": http://www.prometheusradio.org/
> More information from Prometheus:
> http://www.prometheusradio.org/FCC_Update_June2013
>
> --
> You are entitled to your own opinion.
> You are NOT entitled to your own facts.
>
> Norman
>
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