Re: Radio Free Brattleboro is coming

[Doug Bassett <dbassett@sover.net>]

Bob Nelson wrote:

> I used to see ads in magazines like Popular Communications and
> Monitoring Times for FM transmitters
> that could be hooked up to any CD player (or similar
> piece of equipment), and you could broadcast up to
> a half a mile or so. But as you put it, "why bother"
> when the listening audience would be so tiny?
>
> I wonder if the people at "Radio Free Brattleboro"
> are using the same micro-transmitters that Vermont
> Tourism used for awhile at their rest stops as a
> Traveler's Information Station. They
> put out a signal for a quarter of a mile at best
> (you had to stay in the rest area parking lot just to
> hear them), and the TIS featured a message saying
> that they were made by a company in Burlington, VT
> called Mar-Tek (I think?) and you could contact them
> for your own micro-broadcasting setup. I'd think this
> sort of thing would be meant for stuff like realtors
> ("tune to 88.5 FM for a description of this house!")
> and so on. Anyway, I wonder if Radio Free Brattleboro
> would be using micro-transmitters like that type?
>

The article in yesterday's rag...er...paper stated that $250 was paid
for their transmitter, with a total of about $1,500 spent on the whole
project so far.

- -Doug
92.7 WKVT-FM
We've got a whole bunch of CDs, playin' 'em one at a time. Otherwise it
gets too confusing....
Brattleboro, Vt.

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