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Our goals for '08
1. Continue to challenge propaganda and misinformation about low power broadcasting
and educate the public about low power broadcasting.
2. Expose the N.A.B for what it is.
3. Sign on another five part 15 AM radio stations.
4. Take the show on the road this summer, Our goal is to encourage more people to start their own community radio station.
5. Produce a DVD on low power broadcasting
6. Expand our indy artist base and make it available to broadcasters.
7. Transition from Internet distribution of our programming to KU band satellite.

Steve
XRQK Radio Group
www.xrqkfm.com
 
I know I'll be signing on two stations in the coming months and since one has a great deal of support from an educational concern it will get some positive press. I hope to have a second school-based one up later in the year, but we'll see how things go. I'm just glad there are others here who appreciate what Part 15 can be. Perhaps it may be the thing to show that low power broadcasting isn't going to go away.
 
NPR recently did a nationally broadcast story that was well received on a guy that is doing a LPAM in a small town in the northwest, the guy was doing morning traffic and weather, he sits in a glass fronted building in the middle of town, and the town loves it! It is the only local news they get in the remote location. He is performing a valuable service.
I think there are many locations that don’t have local programming, where LPAM would be a valuable service. I can’t tell you how many times I get a call, we had a great local station that the town loved that has been in operation since before time, and now it has been bought out and either runs programming from NYC or has gone to a format useless to the community.
Also LPAM is a way to reach a small area with a specific format, A Chinese station for Chinatown for example.
I think there are many things that prevent those with a dream of LPAM from moving forward, a big one is technical ability. Another is an unhealthy fear of the FCC and no understanding of how to work with the FCC. I get calls from people so worried about the FCC they can’t sleep at night, even when their setup is squeaky clean. Sharing information on a board like this I think can be invaluable.

Maybe people need to see/hear examples of people who are doing it and how they did it.
 
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