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Your part 15 station

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This board is too quiet. So my curiosity has gotton the best of me. If you own a part 15 fm or LPAM station, What format do you run? How many listeners have you
been able to actually verify? What has been the overall success rate of your station? Finally, What kind of (REAL) meaning if its home grade stuff, not professional , would love to know what kind you have! I would even post pictures of my studio if I could find out how. Just wondering about this, love to hear your answers.
 
My "pride and joy" serves a nursing home with "beautiful music" interspersied with hits of the 40's and 50's. It covers the 3 acre campus (where my mom lives) well with a "Rangemaster" transmitter and OTS running the programming 24/7.

There is a weather radio that will "automatically interrupt" the program if there is a weather bulletin. There is a "push to talk microphone so that the nursing home administrator can make an announcement whenever she wants. It really hasn't had a serious problem in over a year. That station is 3 years old.

#2 is at a Church with 3 cd changers also 24/7. It too has a Rangemaster with about a 2 mile radius in a couple of directions and considerably less in a couple of directions due to lots of "factory noise." It broadcasts lots of Catholic programs interspersed with music, invitations to worship with us, commercials for our school, and advertising from a few local businesses as well as 2 Sunday Church services. There is USA Network news (from a satellite receiver) almost every hour. Noon-midnight is Spanish, midnight til noon is Spanish. It is entirely automated-very cheaply. That station is a year and a half old. It sounds good. The Pastor thinks I'm a genius.

#3 is at the next parish over (about a mile and a half). It rebroadcasts number 2 (above).

#3 is oldies with a Gizmo from my home. It can go about a mile.

Nice hobby.
 
We're broadcasting a most professional talk format with a Rangemaster. And, would like to start a network. If anybody is running a Part 15 AM, talk format and would like to have some free programs, all we ask is that you let us know what you call your station, where it is, and what time of day you'd be airing (uncut) our shows.

How many Part 15 AM stations are doing talk? Please reply, here, folks!
 
tjthedj said:
My "pride and joy" serves a nursing home with "beautiful music" interspersied with hits of the 40's and 50's. It covers the 3 acre campus (where my mom lives) well with a "Rangemaster" transmitter and OTS running the programming 24/7.

There is a weather radio that will "automatically interrupt" the program if there is a weather bulletin. There is a "push to talk microphone so that the nursing home administrator can make an announcement whenever she wants. It really hasn't had a serious problem in over a year. That station is 3 years old.

#2 is at a Church with 3 cd changers also 24/7. It too has a Rangemaster with about a 2 mile radius in a couple of directions and considerably less in a couple of directions due to lots of "factory noise." It broadcasts lots of Catholic programs interspersed with music, invitations to worship with us, commercials for our school, and advertising from a few local businesses as well as 2 Sunday Church services. There is USA Network news (from a satellite receiver) almost every hour. Noon-midnight is Spanish, midnight til noon is Spanish. It is entirely automated-very cheaply. That station is a year and a half old. It sounds good. The Pastor thinks I'm a genius.

#3 is at the next parish over (about a mile and a half). It rebroadcasts number 2 (above).

#3 is oldies with a Gizmo from my home. It can go about a mile.

Nice hobby.
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What kind of antenna and ground system are you using with your Gizmo? Also, are you using an outboard ATU with it? (My Gizmo only gets out ~2 blocks using the 3 meter wire antenna.)


-- Jason
 
I live in Chicago by Midway Airport and I have a Ramsey FM35 transmiiter and I can put out a several miles with 1 watt, but I have it set for 250 milliwatts wher it only can go up to about 2 or maybe 3 city blocks.

I play rare and obscure music of 40s 50s 60s and a few 70s music, from big bands to blues, rockabilly, polka, oldies rock and roll, and nostalgia music, like Frank and Dean.
I only have 2 listeners or maybe a 3rd listener, in which they listen from time to time, because everyone else in the neighborhood are too busy either watching a movie or watching a ball game, kids playing outside, or too busy takling on their cell phones.

Lot of the old timers people in to their 70s or older are not FM-ers, because they mostly listen to more of AM radio stuff such as news and health shows.
 
Jason,
Antenna and ground system are 100% legal, designed by Munn and Reese in Coldwater, MI, (identical set-up to GVSU in Allendale, MI) approved by Norm Miller (engineer with the fcc) and installed by a professional engineer. It's good.
 
tjthedj said:
Jason,
Antenna and ground system are 100% legal, designed by Munn and Reese in Coldwater, MI, (identical set-up to GVSU in Allendale, MI) approved by Norm Miller (engineer with the fcc) and installed by a professional engineer. It's good.
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I wasn't trying to "bait" you. Actually, I'd like to try their system with my Gizmo. Do they sell plans for it and/or hardware kits?


-- Jason
 
Are you two talking about the same Part 15 applications?

From what I gather, one of you is posting about AM, and the other about FM. But the FCC's rules for each are different, and so are the coverage ranges that each might provide. There is no correlation between them.
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I think we are talking about am. Gizmo and Rangemaster are both am transmitters. There are too many fcc restrictions on part 15 fm.
 
Desert Ear said:
We're broadcasting a most professional talk format with a Rangemaster. And, would like to start a network. If anybody is running a Part 15 AM, talk format and would like to have some free programs, all we ask is that you let us know what you call your station, where it is, and what time of day you'd be airing (uncut) our shows.

How many Part 15 AM stations are doing talk? Please reply, here, folks!

At this moment, were not part 15 am, just fm.. Working on the am though. Damn what a slow process.. Cash flow has not been at a premium. Anyhoo, We would love some free talk shows, some for the overnight hours at first on fm, them our programmimg on the fm will flip to the am, while the fm becomes a mix of different things. Were lilburn community radio
WLXZ Z-93. Again shows would be ran overnights for now...
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I've currently got "All Rock & Roll Classics, Wolf 103 (102.7) After I get another server I will start working to launch a second with the "Everything that rocks" format, or similar to that of the Boneyard on XM
 
We run format based on southern artists and music, from southern rock to country rock to Memphis-style blues. Also thrown in are up and coming new artists from all over the southern states. We run an SSTran transmitter at 1610KHz and use Station Playlist Creator for the automation. We can go live at anytime. The on-air signal is up from 6AM to 10PM, and we stream 24/7.

We plan to switch the format soon to Classic Album Hits (think AOR meets Classic Rock).

The station is in a rural area of NC, so I'd be surprised if we had any listeners. Still, it's been fun!
 
My station is WJJD (think the old Chicago country station of the 60s and 70s). It plays a blend
of current and classic country with a Southern Gospel tune here and there.

My xmitter is a Cunningham but is presently off-air. It blew a tube..got a replacement tube which
also promptly blew..then Mr. Cunningham passed away so not sure that I know how to fix it. It
was on 1160 AM as a daytimer.

I kept the stream going and it's doing extremely well. The stream alone has several hundred listeners per month.

In the meantime, I've started a classic Christian music station on Live365 - all music, no share-a-thons, no
begging for money after every other song like the local station does.

I do hope to get 1160 back on the air by next summer.
 
:) I operate a P15 FM station - "WXEY" @ 99.7. I broadcast a variety of programming, from classical music to old-time radio, from pop music (presented "Jack-FM"-like) to comedy to...whatever. I like to think of it as a sort of one-man public radio station, but without government/corporate funding or pledge drives.
 
I've now restarted my station at work, Had it as Wolf 103 for a little while (independently run from the online station) but just changed it to Arrow 103.9, All Rock & Roll Classics. I'm using the transmitter module from a Griffin RoadTrip for the iPod, hooked up to the MacBook Pro, running MegaSeg 3
 
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