Hey some nerd (me) is quoted here in this Columbia Journalism Review story about how low-power FM radio stations weathered federal funding cuts by being too small to be eligible for federal funding... in contrast to NPR. The invulnerability of the truly grassroots? 📻💚https://www.cjr.org/feature/public-media-funding-cut-low-power-radio-lessons-community-broadcasting.php#LPFM #media #radio #PublicMedia
@inquiline Interesting, I take it this requires a license and "low power" is extremely low power. Curious if this is even possible in such an FM-crowded place like Los Angeles. (I know there's a low power AM radio site run by one of our radio clubs, but they can't put programming on it -- their local city is in charge of that).
grimacing
Do you have any idea the legality of using those super low power transmitters that say they are FCC approved on ebay and connecting them to a raspberry pi that is pulling a stream and then doing that in multiple locations? Like technically having no one location exceeding the FCC limit to transmit without a license, but increasing coverage by just simply running one per block or something like that? Aside from other technical issues that might crop up with timing and what not, does that break any FCC regulations that you're aware of?
@grimacing Looks like 61 meters per transmitter. All the rules I am aware of are "per transmitter", but I am not an attorney... I mean, if you had an entire block of people with their own FM transmitters playing Halloween music or Christmas music (noncoordinated) that is legal as long as each transmitter meets requirements. If they are all coordinated, I would (guess?) they are all separate transmitters, as long as every transmitter is below the limit. Great idea!
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/low-power-radio-general-information