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Strange Beacons:

--- Quote from: Pigmeat on August 11, 2017, 1209 UTC ---I'd still keep the chatter about them down for their sake. A lot of folks on the FM side are young and idealistic. What seemed like a good thing to do in talking to the press when you're 18 or 19 can turn into a huge regret a few years later.

That's why I never report the few local one's I've heard from time to time on the internet bb's and groups. FM stations of all kinds are dead easy to df day or night.

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I understand and this makes good sense to me.

This is a serious question: Do you think that I should just delete this post, then? I'd have zero problem with doing that. Thanks.

thelegacy:
Why they don't make 87.7 Mhz legal for Hobby Radio broadcasting (In Rural Areas) with a power between 1-15 Watts is beyond my understanding.  It would solve a few problems.  In New Zealand this takes place and they call it the guard bands.
87.7 Mhz is far enough from 88.1 that unless your broadcasting with loads of power or have a dirty transmitter chances are you'll not harm a single thing.  There are few LPTV stations using channel 6 (Especially in rural areas). 

Its all about the big wigs polluting the airwaves with the pig slop of Top40 and Rap as well as the same ole songs being played.

Part 15 is a joke as you have a hard time even on AM getting anywhere.  I think Hobby Radio (Pirate Radio, FREE Radio) is necessary to even the genre playing field for every one.  Its why some of us at The New Radio Revolution want to try and change this mess.

Get the public involved and write congress to at least give 87.7 Mhz to the hobby broadcaster.  Or at least decriminalize broadcasting on that frequency as long as no interference is ocuring from your setup.

There is a story about a Pirate in Colorado in which a broadcaster filed for a Translator station license on 95.3 where a Pirate was broadcasting.  The broadcaster traced him and them reported him to the FCC.  Now according to that agent he was barely over part 15 so he didn't even bother to knock.  The broadcaster simply asked that he change frequency and all was well again.

Now I surely doubt he was part 15.  5-15 Watts is more like it for the range he was getting.  So this tells me that things are about to change for the better as the public even sent hate mail to the broadcaster putting up that AM Translator on FM.

MDK2:

--- Quote from: Strange Beacons on August 01, 2017, 1600 UTC ---The second one is transmitting long spoken word segments on 101.9 FM, in what sounds like Mandarin Chinese, along with "New Age" type music, from my own neighborhood near Shoreline, WA.

The third is broadcasting on 87.7 in the West Seattle area. This broadcast is sporadic and typically only transmits when local community events are taking place.

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Small world. When I moved to Seattle 20 years ago, I first lived in West Seattle (near the no-longer-there High Point housing project). Then I lived in Greenwood, the far northeastern part near the intersection of Aurora and 105th/Northgate, right by the also-now-gone Larry's Market. (Looks like the old movie theater from the 70s or 80s is still open, though - I guess stadium seating hasn't killed off all the old multiplexes yet.) I ended up in Queen Anne before returning to Denver. You must be near my old Greenwood home.

Strange Beacons:

--- Quote from: MDK2 on August 23, 2017, 1603 UTC ---
--- Quote from: Strange Beacons on August 01, 2017, 1600 UTC ---The second one is transmitting long spoken word segments on 101.9 FM, in what sounds like Mandarin Chinese, along with "New Age" type music, from my own neighborhood near Shoreline, WA.

The third is broadcasting on 87.7 in the West Seattle area. This broadcast is sporadic and typically only transmits when local community events are taking place.

--- End quote ---

Small world. When I moved to Seattle 20 years ago, I first lived in West Seattle (near the no-longer-there High Point housing project). Then I lived in Greenwood, the far northeastern part near the intersection of Aurora and 105th/Northgate, right by the also-now-gone Larry's Market. (Looks like the old movie theater from the 70s or 80s is still open, though - I guess stadium seating hasn't killed off all the old multiplexes yet.) I ended up in Queen Anne before returning to Denver. You must be near my old Greenwood home.

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Yes, if you were still here, we'd be in fairly close proximity to each other. Definitely a small world!

atrainradio:
Thelegacy- I agree 100%! In rural, uncrowded FM bands, 5-15 watts should be allowed, HOWEVER, the FCC would need to get pre-approved FM transmitters so that people aren't buying shitty transmitters that throw spurs and harmonics all over the place. That would allow for some formality and give each broadcaster a good, clean signal to do his thing.

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