[BC] LPFM

[Dana Puopolo]

I have always believed there should be a 1 watt FM license for colleges.
Both Australia and Canada have VLP (very low power; under 5 watts) licenses
and they serve them quite well.

-D

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Subject: [BC] LPFM

In a message dated 07/19/2006 2:04:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
SBailey at nespower.com writes:

 >    People should consider LPAM or doing Part 15 FM.  The big boys are
 >  policing the FM band too heavy, but act as they could care less about
 >  AM.

The problem with P15 Fm is that the range, by definition, is useless. If P15
for FM was 100 milliwatts, *that* would be useful, but that just ain't so.
Someone here calculated it out to be some ludicrous number in the 
NANOwatt range:
In the real world, that's useless for anything beyond about arm's length.

To be 100% legal with the P15 FM rules, your signal would only have a radius
of about 100' on a very clear frequency to a good receiver, direct
line-of-sight.

Willie...


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