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Part 15 Station Hours of Operation

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phils07

Do you Part 15 owners stay on air 24/7 or go on only part of the time?

For my Part 15, I used to be on from the time I get back from work until when I went to sleep while using Jango radio from the iphone, and still do when I'm home, but now I use my ipod and play the music on shuffle and runs 24/7
 
24/7 on Zara automation with a playlist that is currently 189 hours before repeat.... That's 7.875 days,
and I do a shuffle every week or every other week.
 
My first Part 15 station operated on 1160kHz as a sunrise to sunset daytimer. There was not a computer in the control room so the programming was was live, or the "automation" was a 5-disc CD changer. Boy, those were the days and they weren't really all that long ago.

The later version of the station ran 24/7 on 1610, using Zara automation when no live programming was on the air.

Back in the 90s I had a carrier-current station. Because of a transformer near the back of the property, the signal went nowhere. Covered the house and part of the yard (I have a big yard, living on a farm.) Ran as a daytimer on 1120kHz.
 
My original hours of op were 6a-10p. Day programming was an ipod on shuffle, night programming was provided by VHS tapes with radio shows on them. Eventually I got Zara, but the hours didnt change. Slightly before I started streaming I went 24/7.
 
24/7 x 365 x 10 on itunes with 29,223 song titles with countless playlists all different with three live dj's doing 22 hours of shows and 7 syndicated shows comprising 60 hours per week of programing. No, all 29,223 do not get played regularly, but about 8,000 (not counting station id's which show up as "songs") have been played more than 12 times - which means somebody likes them. BB King wins most plays award with "The Thrill Is Gone" at 329 plays in ten years, or about three times a month - "Share Your Love With Me" Aretha Franklin, number two 302 plays. There are 428 songs with "Baby" in the title.

Ain't radio fun, baby!

rickity
www.gulchradio.com
 
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