According to This Link if you are a Pirate Radio station and your not interfering with Emergency services,aircraft or another authorized station the FCC now has a policy that says hands off Pirates when they are busy dealing with interference to emergency services and public safety frequencies. This is the Good News I've been waiting for and now feel comfortable setting up a station on a blank frequency and having the station go 1-2 miles playing Progressive Rock (Deep Tracks, Album Rock). I've researched and found 96.3 is always blank even when we have an open band where distant stations come in 100's of miles away. I'm still gonna be a responsible broadcaster and want a clean transmitter. I'm looking at the SainSonic AX-05B for my deeds and hope this policy will remain in effect. Lets hear more Album Rock on FM.
The whole damn FCC is a sick joke. Pirates aren't going to go away. It is like the war on drugs where they can keep busting people and putting them behind bars but it has never done a damn thing to decrease the crime rate.
If the FCC would just set up a segment of the FM, AM or SW band with reasonable power levels for community broadcasting it would go a long way to fix their problem. Hell they can even make it licensed for a small fee. Of course this will never happen because the word "reasonable" and the FCC has never been used in the same sentence without a laugh.
@kage: I agree with most of what you said. I do believe that the unused frequencies in the FM band should be legal to use as long as one uses common sense No foul language, racial slurs, promoting hate, ect. And I too believe the FM Transmitters should have a built in scanner when you power up the transmitter where it scans for blank frequencies and only allows you to pick from one of the empty channels. This way you con't have some fool jamming used frequencies.
As much as I don't like some of the FCC's foolish rules some of their rules make sense and they have made CB Radio pretty much license free. There should be a hobby broadcasting band where you are free to broadcast music and DJ and all the new Radio's should have the hobby band on them. On the hobby band you can also use those car FM Transmitters. I believe the hobby band should use FM and be Stereo or at least allow hobby broadcasting on empty FM frequencies between 87.9 to 107.9 and use .1,3,5,7,9 after the number example 96.3 (not 2,4,ect as this causes issues with licensed stations and receivers that can't properly tune in even frequencies.
All reports I've read on forums like part15.us where I first heard about this reveal the FCC is not wanting to go after reasonable low powered micro broadcasters I'm talking 1,2 watts and the transmitter going 2-3 miles using a stock whip that comes with the transmitter. Most pirates busted in recent cases are using 100 watts maybe down to 30. Anything over 7 watts is really risking it. Many folks are already using 7 watt transmitters and happily broadcasting. Its when you stick that outside antenna and neighbors see it and assume any bad reception they're getting is caused by you rather or not you are the culprit. I've read about the fudge factor of 1,000 uV/M which is what the SainSonic and Fail-Safe 500 Milliwatt transmitters put out with that field strength @ 3 meters (10 feet). I don't know but I'm ready to go on air soon @ 96.3 in my area so far its blank in hopes to get more local listeners who want to hear me further than 1 mile to tune in via the net. We'll see how this promotes my station.
O'Rielly's remarks, "the Commission’s resources are stretched, and it seems that stopping pirate radio is not at the top of the priority list" is another example of government's failure to get anything done efficiently. Further down in his remarks, I think he gives us much more realization that the FCC has lost enforcement of laws regarding Pirate Radio by reading the defensive posturing he presents with his rants and raves about the reprehensible evil of the practice.
Absolutely laughable! More breathing room for us pirates.
i have a broadcast vision part 15 certified transmitter based on the range it's getting i'm betting it's probably about (and if it's not i would love to see what 1000uV/m would do) 1000uV/m@3m. i also have a harris ms15 that will go down to microwatts TPO and a homebrew optimod 8000 processor / SG. i do have a dipole and a spec/an, and with the BV as a calibrating source i can set that harris to levels consistent with the BV. i'm thinking of setting up the harris into a ground plane with an electrically short radiator and setting the emitted field to match the BV and then using the 8000 clone (there are switches in it to disable stereo) in mono mode along with a DSP 9024 being fed by a DSP 1424p as my processing chain.
i have checked the harris on the spec an down to it's bottom power level it's clean as a whistle, compared to the BV which is a spectral nightmare.
i am also trying to build a solar powered self contained translator site to pick up my FM with a yagi and repeat my signal on another am and fm frequency to cover the other end of the apartment complex.
JD
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Post by thelegacy on Sept 27, 2015 20:56:47 GMT -6
I have a friend that told me about a carrier current circuit that would allow for AM to go carrier current. This way you could definitely get from one end of the complex to the other. You may even get more than a mile if the transformer is a mile away. You can inject a 5 watt signal into a carrier currect signal with this coupler that uses standard 120 AC outlet and some allows you to tune in to your neutral side of the AC. This coupler is able to be safe too so there is no danger in it but I don't know where to get it from. My friend was checking into it as this is nice for folks who can't put up an AM antenna.
If you do go over the 250 uV/M @ 3 meters for FM I'd stay no more than a Watt. If you do that you may be OK as there was some test done on part15 dot us and Timinbovey found that the Whole House FM Transmitter 3.0 was putting out 1775 uV/M @ 3 meters which is above the legal 250 and when you throw the secret power mode on (Hold down cycle and Mute till you get the lightning bolt) it will go to 4,000 uV/M @ 3 meters. The output power to the final at the out of box setting is 2mW and when you throw in the secret power mode its 310 mW. So that said you can get away with 500mW depending on where you live. If you live in Connecticut or anywhere the police states like NY, NJ, CT and Florida I'd make sure your FM transmitter is not over the legal. Lots of NOUO's in those areas. If you live in a red neck part of the woods your probably OK as long as you have a clean transmitter and don't piss off your neighbors. That is the main thing right there.
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