If every home owner and apartment dweller knew about Part 15 radio, they would right away want to have their own personal radio station so they could hear what they want on the dial. I think I have a sales plan.
Perhaps the ALPB, the Association of Low Power Broadcasters, could begin to infiltrate with the real estate agents of America. Here's how it would work.
When newly available properties go on the market, there is a lot of effort made to make the house or apartment as appealing as possible in the eyes of the shopper.
Imagine if the real estate sales person could point out the "house radio transmitter," already installed and ready to go.
I'm telling you children and wives, once they realized the appeal of having their own station, would nag daddy day and night until he closed the deal and bought the "radio house." And for a fact, daddy would be very happy about the situation, because he would already be imagining a "daddy show" on his own station.
Our work is cut out for us and we are cut out for our work.
I think you have too much time on your hands Carl to come up with these idea's all the time
Two important subjects have been up for discussion in the world of radio, those being the futures of the AM band and the depressed state of the shortwave band in the Homeland (formerly the U.S.).
A drive from one end to the other on radio street starts in the medium wave neighborhood and ends up in the outlying suburbs of shortwave.
A number of rather flimsy ideas have been raised for "salvaging" AM, among those "HD" proprietary digital, FM translators (low power), fiddling with power levels... all the while agreeinging that RFI (Radio Frequency Noise) is on the increase.
Shortwave in north America is limping on life support with no one advancing plans for doing anything with it.
WHAT IF a portion of the shortwave band, up where the interference is less, is re-assigned as the NEW AM band? Would it work as a local service?
The OLD AM band could be handed to hobby broadcasters (that's us) where we could ride out several decades of analog radios still in use.
This has been another idea from Carl Blare. A quicky reception will be held on the way out.
I just wrote a post on the wrong thread.
I deleted it and will repost it later.
Bruce, DOGRADIO