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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ThaDood on August 08, 2017, 1044 UTC

Title: Radio Survivor to hit up LPAM.
Post by: ThaDood on August 08, 2017, 1044 UTC

Boomer alerted me to this,   http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/08/07/low-power-lpam/     At the very least, we should still keep the topic alive.

Title: Re: Radio Survivor to hit up LPAM.
Post by: redhat on August 08, 2017, 1306 UTC

Its a nice idea, but getting LPFM into reality was a 20 year battle with a lot of small groups working behind the scenes to grease all the appropriate orifices of the leviathan that is the commission.  If it was to succeed, I suppose the commission could, in the interest of their AM revitalization policy, incentivize stations to go dark, particularly rimshots into large metros with complex DA's.  Once they have cleaned up the band, then and only then would it be possible to bring something like this to reality.

...And as usual, the places where the licenses would be needed most, in large cities with diverse populations, there would probably be next to no available frequencies...just like LPFM.

+-RH