Most part 15 stations model their stations to be a lot like licensed stations. But one big difference is that we do not have “a city of license.”
Most part 15 stations model their stations to be a lot like licensed stations. But one big difference is that we do not have “a city of license.”
But licensed stations are not always in their city of license. Sometimes the transmitters are even in another state, with the “city of license” somewhere within their main signal pattern. Many studios are “out of town” in cities adjoining the city of license.
So how much liberty can we take with unlicensed radio? We are not required to specify any city at all, so could we get creative and name nearby towns that we like better than the one we’re in? There is no law prohibiting it under part 15.
For example, I am in a city that I refuse to name, about 3-blocks outside of St. Louis, Missouri, which many people would like to name because it’s a top market, but I want to minimize any association with it because the station image is more worldly and not at all typical of anything in St. Louis. One identifier I have used is to say we are in “Forest Park” because in fact this exact spot was originally part of Forest Park back in 1904 when the World’s Fair took place (the movie “Meet Me In St. Louis”). In fact now, today, Forest Park has it’s own postal code, so it is like a city in that way, except that I am not in that postal code.
The city I prefer to identify with is named Affton, Missouri, where my only surviving family member lives, and I like the small sized houses with no pretension about status. If you drew a straight line from Affton to Forest Park, KDX would be exactly in the middle.
Only in the part 15 world could such a small time question be discussed, but it’s ten times better than the stuff the candidates are saying.
Who’s Watching/Listening?
“Only in the part 15 world could such a small time question be discussed, but it’s ten times better than the stuff the candidates are saying.”
Is it worth paying attention to any of them in the first place?
Why not just randomly announce a city name for a location, sort of like having daily on location remotes.
Instead of “city of license”, maybe it should be “city of location”. But since ID is not required, all ages welcome.
Carl is buying the drinks today. :p
RFB
By the Rules
Please have your ID ready before we serve these drinks.
You know, ya, you’ve got another idea going……
Hand it around. “Our broadcast from Affton will be starting in 10-minutes, when the Forest Park studio shuts down for the weekend. Join us Monday from the riverboat.”
The idea is so remote it might be out of range.
I used to do part 15 FM from my house…
…using a cheap iPod transmitter and the fake callsign WCHX Owensville-Cincinnati. My transmitter reached neither place. Owensville is about a half mile away from here and Cincinnati is 25 miles away. I just liked the sound of Owensville better than Batavia. Batavia is 4 miles away yet the postal service says this is Batavia. Also, I wanted to sound like I was covering a metropolitan area, hence the Cincinnati part.
I think with part 15, it doesn’t matter what you say your location is. Just as long as you don’t go nuts. An example of going nuts would be WCHX Mars. Hahaha 🙂
Mars Straight Ahead
There was a serious story in the news that some non-government group wants to organize a colonization trip to Mars in a few years. Think of the radio opportunity that will open up!
Be the first to put radio on Mars! Do a search for that group and sign up. As of today, there are no radio rules on Mars, so take a lot of tower steel and a big transmitter.
Part 15 locations and Mars
I have had all kinds of callsigns and names
of real and made up locations over the
last 40 years.
As for Mars, I know that some hams have
tracked spacecraft going to Mars here on
Earth.
Ooops, my ride is here.
Best Wishes,
Bruce, DRS2
Good Journet
That was sudden. Bruce Doggradio Studio 2 abruptly left for Mars.
Yes, here’s what he wrote,
“As for Mars, I know that some hams have
tracked spacecraft going to Mars here on
Earth.
Ooops, my ride is here.”
Be sure to contact us!
Communites Served On My Station
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