To be fair, the "discussion" was yet another hare-brained madcap scheme from a certain member, it was barely worth discussing once it had been established as a technical and regulatory non-starter. I'm personally a bit tired of seeing these threads from the same individual when they clearly have put zero thought into their "idea" and are just letting their brain leak out onto the forum. So let the rabbit hole commence!
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Another option would be to drop battery powered satellite radio receivers into the affected area.
Gov regulations can be changed to allow Gov owned AM stations.
Perhaps sat radios is a better idea, they could be stored in an EMP safe box along with drones to drop them.
There's a lot I don't know about radio, in this thread I was thinking long term about when wireless broadband is the only content distribution option.
Kirk Bayne
Gov regulations can be changed to allow Gov owned AM stations.
Perhaps sat radios is a better idea, they could be stored in an EMP safe box along with drones to drop them.
There's a lot I don't know about radio, in this thread I was thinking long term about when wireless broadband is the only content distribution option.
Kirk Bayne
DRM requires killing the analog entirely. Stations now making money are not going to do that.
And DRM is hardly a major success... Except for India where they are using it on extremely high power stations* to avoid having to build lots of local FM or digital stations, it does not help much.
* Up to a megawatt.
A new digital band only works where the government controls much of all broadcasting and is far more powerful. It failed in less restricted Canada.
And really nobody significant except India is using it, and there it is intended to evade the need for local stations in every city.
We don't need a system that requires new radios. Already over a third of all homes have no radio... the days of one-for-many over the air radio are limited.
If you didn't like the last "rabbit hole", here's a new one: The reason no one was prepared for Covid is because the previous administration shut down the program to take care of such things!
This is the best post ever!
The reason the rule exists is to prevent government propaganda. Do you really want to open that door?
This is the same rule that prevents the VOA from being heard in the US.
Most of us, even with decades in "the business" can and should not be embarrassed to say that, too!
Correction: It prevents the VOA from programming for an American audience or targeting its transmissions to the United States. There's nothing other than the vagaries of shortwave propagation preventing Americans from hearing the VOA. That would require jamming operations.
And does that prohibition of programming to domestic audiences only apply to the charter of the VOA. I'll defer to experts on FCC rules and Federal legislation to tell us if the national government is not allowed to create a domestic service.
OK, I'll hand it to you this time. You're onto something here. You're still stuck on the idea of radio on phones, but satellite communication is an option that could work while also enabling smartphone manufacturers to give their customers what they want. The iPhone 14 has satellite capabilities so you can make emergency calls when you end up off the grid. I understand it also works with Find My iPhone so you can locate your phone if you lose it somewhere that doesn't have a cell connection.
Pushing emergency data to your phone using satellite as a backup isn't a stretch from what the latest smartphones can already do. It's also a forward looking solution that makes more sense than using outdated technologies.
"Target" as in "produce programming intended for" or as in "direct radio signals toward (via antenna pattern)"? Or both?
Producing programming intended for that audience.
Wasn't WLWO owned by Crosley? It was on short wave.
I know of a TIS that plays hourly news from the VOA
WLWO was at one time owned by Crosley. It eventually became the VOA Bethany Relay Station
I'm actually referring to the transmitter in Marathon, Florida on 1180 kHz that relayed programming to Cuba and that, I believe, later became part of Radio Martí. It was quite audible in the Midwest at night, with audio that was clearly being fed by a conditioned phone line (it had that "network" sound in the days before satellite distribution).
That quote could be this month's cover of 'Duh Magazine'.
It's clear he doesn't know anything about radio, yet argues when he's told otherwise.
I think he's living in the wrong place. There's no venture capital in Kansas City. Mountain View might be a better fit. Or Milpitas.
Maybe there's a Rube Goldberg contest for radio we don't know about.
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