my fiance works at holly creek and knows this guy who set all this up and runs the station. i'm pissed she didn't tell me about this sooner lol. i had to find out from a news article.
That is a great story and it is the way to go!
i hope when i wind up in a retirement home they either have a station already or that i can setup a new station there.
Retirement centers are made-to-order for Part 15 broadcasting.
The centers all have activities directors whose job description involves keeping the residents happy and occupied. They have budgets to bring in speakers, for example, and my wife and I did this a lot presenting shows on old time radio, and one new years eve, setting up an interview table to record conversations with the residents about their lives, copies of which were later provided on CD.
I was in talks with one activities woman who was very curious about the potential of installing a community radio station in her center, but she married a rich resident and moved up in the world.
Stations could be either "community" ventures open to all volunteers, or operated from the private room of any one resident. There could even be several radio stations in a retirement center.
Before it retired, LPB printed some real nice white sheets promoting carrier current for retirement homes.
That's a great story. I could see any one of us in that position doing the same. He has a very nice setup.
The story indicates his operation is that of a cable TV radio station on their private CATV system.
Now that his station has hit the national media, I hope the music police don't interfere. Positive media sometimes has negative results.
The retirement radio idea reminds me of the days early in the 60s when a radio engineer from a VA Hospital was hired to build the 2nd commercial FM station in the river town where I lived. For many years he'd been the engineer of a carrier current (CC) station at a midtown VA (Veteran's Administration) Hospital.
In the 1980s I was informed that yet another VA hospital in a different part of town had remnant studios from their CC days, and most interesting, had a large closet loaded with 16" electrical transcriptions of network radio programs released by AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service). Before I was able to borrow the discs the closet emptied out and that's all we know.
Maybe now that the VA needs some positive press would be a good time to re-commission a part 15 radio service for inpatient veterans.
Carl said: Maybe now that the VA needs some positive press would be a good time to re-commission a part 15 radio service for inpatient veterans.
I love the idea myself and Id be first to sign up to build the studios for it, but given the times, its likelier that inpatient vets will be using portable players and wireless goodies to listen to tunes.
Barring short-range low-power FM, any kind of in-house music/news/info service that might be considered and proposed by the bigwigs would probably involve the hospital's wi-fi rather than a dedicated RF plant.
Which sucks for us...
this guys station is a in house Cable Access TV Channel and not part 15
Almost a tear jerker! Thanks for the story.