YEKIMI
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« Reply #30 on: November 04, 2009, 06:28:57 PM » |
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If you can't afford the attorney, how can you afford to build and operate a station?
It was going to be licensed to the school system if I had been able to obtain a license, they would have been paying. It didn't cost that much back then to start up a station, a lot of the equipment was going to be donated if I had been able to get a license. The school system was ambivalent about the whole thing. The other school station that had gone dark operated on less then 5K a year. Today you can run a station off an Ipod and a computer.
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« Reply #31 on: November 05, 2009, 11:50:55 AM » |
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That's sad that the school system couldn't foot the bill (which would not have been that much, considering it's in the non-commercial part of the FM band). They could have qualified for a grant or something.
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« Reply #32 on: November 05, 2009, 03:42:42 PM » |
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If you can't afford the attorney, how can you afford to build and operate a station?
It was going to be licensed to the school system if I had been able to obtain a license, they would have been paying. It didn't cost that much back then to start up a station, a lot of the equipment was going to be donated if I had been able to get a license. The school system was ambivalent about the whole thing. The other school station that had gone dark operated on less then 5K a year. Today you can run a station off an Ipod and a computer.
Today most stations ARE run off an Ipod and a computer! |
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« Reply #33 on: November 09, 2009, 12:13:49 AM » |
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OK I remember driving on Hooper Highway/321 between Cosby and Gatlinburg about 5 years ago and seeing a wooden/painted sign promoting possibly this pirate, and possibly their makeshift studios when they were on the 91.whatever signal. It is different than the old sign that is posted below Cosby high School. So maybe they are still off Hooper Highway.
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« Reply #34 on: November 12, 2009, 10:16:54 AM » |
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Any of you young turks remember how satellite tv ,that we pay $100 a month for was back in the eighties?
Can you say FREE!! Yes children it was free. As long as you had enough money and real estate to put up the old C band dish in your yard for the dog to *** on. Fine. Guess who screwed that up. Al, the world is burning
Gore. The FCC is government. According to them, they own every wireless signal that man can come up with.
Pirate radio is harmless as long as you don't bother anyone or step on an existing station. It's like operating
on a 2 meter repeater-listen first!
Playing a few tunes and self expression is still legal in the U.S. Besides, what's on the radio these days is slowly becoming garbage like tv. I occasionally listen to pirate radio on shortwave and find it interesting. Pirates are more creative than the money grubbing boneheads that we know as commercial radio today. Bland programming for a lot of money.
What I've read on these posts are the same kind of people that protest against prayer at high school sporting events. By the way, for those people, Madaline Murray Ohare is dead and her body dismembered. Get over it! Sorry guys, I would be a pirate myself but I have an FCC license and what goes around can sometimes catch up with you. Think Part 15. Very low power, your still on the air and its LEGAL.....
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« Reply #35 on: November 12, 2009, 10:27:07 AM » |
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Yekimi:
Try cable radio. We had it at East Tennessee State University. The dorms were wired with cable tv and the student radio station was operated by the broadcasting dept. It was a well kept secret in the local radio market and no one complained except faculty--ha ha. The signal bleeds out of the cable and we could recieve it on 103.9 fm. I'm sure you have audio-visual equipment. Feed a signal into a cable network and there you have it. Let the kids have fun.
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« Reply #36 on: November 12, 2009, 03:01:27 PM » |
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kd4rnc1964
The free C band stuff ended because the providers stopped providing it for free. They encoded everything and charged for what they provided. It's called capitalism. Hey, I'm no Al Gore fan, but I sure would be grateful if you could enlighten me on just how he is responsible for this.
Are you advocating that the 2 meter ham band be open to anyone and everyone who just wants to jump on it? If that's the case, then can't you see how it wouldn't take long before it became as useless as the CB band? Maybe it has, I haven't listened to 2 meters in years.
And you couldn't be more wrong in your assessment of me that I would be FOR the likes of Ohare and anyone else that worked for the elimination of school prayer. And can you not see the paradox in you wanting anyone and everyone to have at will access to the airwaves to express their opinion yet you are all for denying Ms Ohare of the right to express hers?
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YEKIMI
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« Reply #37 on: November 13, 2009, 11:35:35 PM » |
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Yekimi:
Try cable radio. We had it at East Tennessee State University. The dorms were wired with cable tv and the student radio station was operated by the broadcasting dept. It was a well kept secret in the local radio market and no one complained except faculty--ha ha. The signal bleeds out of the cable and we could recieve it on 103.9 fm. I'm sure you have audio-visual equipment. Feed a signal into a cable network and there you have it. Let the kids have fun.
Can't do that. Time-Warner cable has the franchise here and had no competition till they p***ed off the city so much that the city started their own cable system. Their agreements with companies like Much Music [if that's who they use, I no longer live there] preclude any competition. The city cable company built a studio at the high school and basically hired the two Time-Warner employees to run it and have students do all the free stuff. It was brought up by me about running a cable-based station like that and the city nixed it. To this day they still refuse. You can't fight city hall. |
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« Reply #38 on: November 14, 2009, 06:14:54 PM » |
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Yeah i know about gores involvement in the cable bill. 2 meters these days has its good and bad operators. Worse on hf. I can hear and get into repeaters west of knoxville sw va.and western nc. Most of the time its fun but theres been qrm around knoxville lately. A lot of new operators on the air. They gotta learn like i did. Sorry, ohare was a big mouth liberal. No offense thats another subject for the outside page
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« Reply #39 on: November 18, 2009, 11:42:29 AM » |
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Said it before, I'll say it again..
Rules are rules..
Don't blame the messenger, blame the message.
If you cannot put a signal on legally, then you're violating the law.
If you're violating the law, then you need to be caught.
If you are caught, you need to be punished.
It's like driving Interstate 81 at 90 miles an hour, just because everybody else is doing it.
If you get caught and the other dude doesn't, you cannot excuse it by saying "well the other driver was doing it, too."
Until IF and WHEN the laws are changed, everybody has to abide by them.
These are all interesting posts, but we're beating a dead horse.
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