Re: college radio gone dark for summer?

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 10:36 PM 6/4/2003, Sid Whitaker wrote:
>Even college stations with considerable signal strength can have trouble
>staying on the air during the summer. As a high school student the GM at
>WRPI (the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student station) in my
>hometown of Troy, NY  handed me a station key and said "anytime we're
>off the air, come in, sign on, and do a show."  I did plenty of 12-hour
>airshifts----and loved it! Ah, to be 17 again, with 10kw to play with!
>(most fun I ever had in radio).

Yeah - even WZBC (1kW @ Boston College) has trouble filling air in the summers.


>To raise another issue...does anyone see the FCC re-opening the window
>for LPFM?
>
>Sid Whitaker


Yes and no.  The MITRE report on 3rd-adjacent interference is due out 
relatively soon (rumor has it that it'll be by July) and that study is a 
direct result of LPFM and 3rd adjacent concerns.   Conventional Wisdom is 
that MITRE will confirm what we all already know - 3rd adjacent protection 
is a crock...especially in light of translators.   See Scott Fybush's rants 
for more on that.

In theory - that re-opens the door for many LPFM's.  In reality, I suspect 
the NAB and NPR will dump millions in campaign contributions on Congress 
and they'll force the FCC to block it anyway.



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