The next regular TeamSpeak meeting of The ALPB is this Saturday, July 4th 2015. How appropriate with all of the explosive things happening in the wide world of broadcasting.
Now, I understand the 4th of July probably isn't the best time to have a meeting but little if anything has been said even though it was mentioned at the close of the last meeting. So if the meeting turn-out is light, that is understandable.
On another note I have been camping for the last four days. Camping in Ohio in the summer time usually means setting in the tent listening to the rain. That's pretty much what we did the first couple days. But on the last day, today, the clouds cleared during the morning hours and we had a nice finish.
Now the reason I mention I have been camping is that during that time I didn't have much opportunity to check email or forum sites. Wow, a ton of posts on Part15.us. So if you show for the meeting Saturday I'm sure there will be some discussion about all the recent posts.
We do have some members researching various items and hopefully we may have their reports. So if you can make it, Great.
Looking forward to the continuation of the discussion on FM Part 15.239, the FM regulation.
Also, I will request the floor to deliver a very brief essay titled "Reverse Payola," which describes what I really think about the royalty requirements for broadcasting and streaming.
And, just now, sitting here also after a rain storm, I thought of a very accurate way of portraying the Part 15 Experience that so many of us are living.
It appears to me that just about every person (every guy, unfortunately, where are the Part 15 women?) comes on this forum and describes a radio station tailored to their own personal taste. That fits right into my vision of Part 15 as a way for the listener to "occupy radio" and take control away from large, corporate, monopolistic licensed stations by owning our own personal stations.
But so many make a fundamental error of imagining an audience "somewhere out there" who is yearning to hear what you program. That is a very unlikely reality.
The fact is, we envision the perfect station serving our own taste, and if someone in the small signal field also happens to like the station, that's pure serendipity.
As listeners owning stations we must reverse-engineer the process of broadcasting, and back our way into RF (radio frequency) engineering, audio technology, and overall management.
I'm right about that, there's not to much anyone could add.
Oh, and July 4th has become kind of a habit without reflection, so I'll be the reality guide in saying that "The Declaration of Independence" was a letter sent to the King/Queen of England basically seceding through mutiny and treason, a moment when a bunch of Edward Snowdens decided to become "independent" from Great Britain. That stand has resulted in what we now call "The Homeland," but we have become war crime partners with present day Great Britain which somewhat dispenses with independence.
And although most people don't want to know about it, but fireworks are replicas of warfare, and warfare is about death and maiming, not a happy holiday.