[HATS] Micro Radio Broadcasting

[KB9FOHAM@aol.com]

A while ago I mentioned the FCC is going to license low power FM broadcast 
stations. That is now reality. Someone asked what they could transmit on 
them. Naturally the answer is anything! It is FM broadcasting. Anything from 
Howard Stern filth to Beethoven.  Well here's my idea.  We hams could put 
these up all over the place, and using a simple MP3 audio file, transmit rpo 
ham radio stuff 24 hours a day unattended.  A continous pitch for hams, and 
in stereo, the other channel could easily be NASA select, your repeater 
output, and instructions on how to tune in the local ATV repeater to see NASA 
select on a home receiver. You could hae on the air code classes (for those 
who still want 5 WPM) and license classes, just read the material into the 
computer once, and put in a loop.  If your club is not already a IRS not for 
profit corporation, you can form one, and then do like everyone else does, 
beg for money and equipment donations form the other broadcasters.  All you 
need is a 10 watt FM transmitter and antenna, some cheap coax (at 10 watts 
you do not need anything more than 9913) and the computer playback. That's 
not much less than many satellite rebroadcasters today.  You could add an 
emergency radio input for NWS weather, etc. 
I was even thinking we could form a national group, ie Foundation for the 
Promotion of Ham Radio and maybe get an SCPC satellite channel on a bird to 
program a bunch via satellite. I bet among us broadcast engineers we could 
get that much donated.  

73   Henry
  
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