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Internet to AM?

T

tradrev

I love Internet radio & at work that's all I listen to ... but I also love AM and listen to it in the car or with one of several dxing radio & antenna rigs ...

But good AM is harder & harder to come by, with standards formats and anything unique or original getting canned, so I've been thinking about the idea of Internet to AM -- the broadcast going backwards so to speak -- and wondering if anyone's ever done this ...

The idea is this: with so much great Internet radio out there, has an AM (or FM) station ever tried to pick up a stream abnd then rebroadcast it locally via their AM transmitter? (I'd love AM because of the reach, but I'd bet that it would be a college FM station that would be the first to try this...)
 
Our station plays Standards over the air, and maintains a web stream as well (www.kzqx.com). I have been told, but can't confirm that a couple of RV parks rebroadcast our stream through a Rangemaster Part 15 system. It certainly would not be difficult to do.
 
I also had a couple of campgrounds and a couple of resort areas (the two I know of being somewhere in Europe) had previously rebroadcasted my station in the past. I know that because I had received emails asking if I would mind. I later received emails from new listeners who had "discovered" my station thanks to these campground and rec areas.
 
In answer to your question, I'm curious why more operation do NOT do what you suggest.
I've been broadcasting via the internet to half a dozen stations for a year now, some internet stations and some FM stations.
The stations get a good product, plus the broadcaster doesnt' have to battle traffic and weather to get to work.
It's a win/win situation as I see it.
 
When I am on the road, my part 15 AM runs audio from a local college FM.
When I am home, I run audio from my own collection or stream any one of a dozen or so internet services.
Most streams are not acceptable for broadcast due to low data rates.
I would not broadcast anything I would not listen to.....
 
Tom Wells said:
When I am on the road, my part 15 AM runs audio from a local college FM.
When I am home, I run audio from my own collection or stream any one of a dozen or so internet services.
Most streams are not acceptable for broadcast due to low data rates.
I would not broadcast anything I would not listen to.....
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Tom,

If streams have lower data rates than what's broadcast (even on AM), then that pretty much kills this idea (until, that is, higher data rates)...

Forgive the barrage newbie questions, but what's a "part 15 AM"? And how do you run the audio from a college FM to the AM station? Finally, when you're at home, is that audio you're running just on your computer (ie it's what you're personally listening to) or are you running it on your station?
 
Part 15 refers a transmitter in conformance with standards established by the FCC to prevent harmful interference.
These rules are very specific to frequency, and whether the signal is intentional/unintentional.
These are all in the "part 15" section of FCC rules and regs.

The audio from an FM tuner or 78 rpm record goes through "the stereo" and processing, to a weak AM transmitter on AM 1550.
I run all audio this way and listen on various AM radios at home regardless of source.
The college stations have enough variety to be worth airing in my abscence.

If internet streams die, I'll be back to only home-produced content or the college FMs.
 
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