Re: LPFM - Tech Question

["Douglas J. Broda" <djbroda@mindspring.com>]

At 12:42 PM 1/21/00 -0500, Shawn Mamros wrote:
>
>There is not now, and never has been, any regulation that would stop
>one from setting up such a station, assuming the frequency space is
>available.  It's called Class A, and it allows for anywhere from
>100 to 6,000 watts.
>
But aren't the day-to-day requirements for Class A stations stricter/more
cumbersome than for LPFM (that is, the same as for any full-power FM)?

>Matter of fact, a lot of such "rural" Class A stations were created
>around 15-20 years ago, under Docket 80-90.  Thing is, most of the
>folks who owned those stations sold them to much larger broadcasting
>companies, who then used those stations as rimshotters into the nearest
>urban market.
>

At least those close enough to urban markets.

I have real trouble with the rimshots because the FCC's approved some very
questionable changes to the COL/TX location/etc. to help them become
rimshots in some cases. If suburbia sprawls enough to reach the rimshot's
signal area, then I have no trouble with that -- it's the cases where the
original signal couldn't reach any area of substantial size (then or now),
but the FCC let them amend to reach a new area that bother me.

That said, I agree that making the LPFMs non-comm helps, but wouldn't the
power limit stop them from becoming rimshots even if they were commercial?

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