This I understand. But surely a ruling that specifies one transmitter only allowed in the guardband would be sufficient. I use 2 but would be much happier using 1 than none at all. My hope was that a ruling like this would not come into effect until an atternative higher power non-commercial LPFM was available.
Many New Zealand citizens will suffer from this ruling. I'm talking about the listeners, not the operators. The alternative music that Tauranga has had now for 3 years will be sadly missed based on the amount of positive feedback I have received. A lot of my listeners are elderly and regard it as an alternative to the National Station. A home & hospital for the elderly informed me that they have my station available on a pipe to all patients as they find it uplifting.
Ross Levis.
Soul FM
Perhaps I am feeling a bit smug because I live on top of a hill in Wellington and can see the Hutt valley, the airport, Kapiti and the city, and if I put up a 1/2 watt signal it could be recieved by just about everybody in Wellington! Mind you, if you had to put up with the wind that I do you might consider that living in a gully has its good points too and I doubt if I could keep a decent antenna on the roof for more than a few months!When the notice is posted, it will be at www.govt.med.nz/rsm/whatsnew for a month or so. After that you will need to dig for it in the "Licensing" pages. As far as I am aware, there is no intention to change the text from what I put up during the week as it is considered to meet the wishes of most users. I have been passing on comments from the group to our policy section where appropriate. I can assure you that some of them have sparked lively debate!CheersAndrew----- Original Message -----From: M.B & J.D DuffyTo: LPFM_Radio@...Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:11 PMSubject: Re: [LPFM] The new frequencies
Please forgive me as my remarks were not aimed at people on this list who like myself are providing a service that is otherwise unavailable I am more concerned with the likes of rhema who have taken large chunks of lpfm spectrum around the country which could better be used by people again like ourselves who do it localy for our local communities.As for my own position well I guess I am fortunate in that I live in an relitively flat ie valley area sourounded on 3 sides by high hills were there is little other fm broadcasts (more fm from wellington sometimes).MBD----- Original Message -----From: Ross LevisTo: LPFM_Radio@...Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 9:25 PMSubject: Re: [LPFM] The new frequenciesIf this comes into force then I'll not be sweeting so much as sad for all my listeners when I pull the plug on the only alternative (to mainstream) music in the city. If my transmission was forced to move to the studio here at home in this small gully then I may as well put a loud speaker on the roof as I would get as many listeners that way.
By moving my main transmission 900 metres up to a ridge via a non-guardband frequency, the station covers most of the city. I also put a repeater at Mount Maunganui where the Tauranga signal cannot be heard very well. I don't see how this breaches the spirit of LPFM. Two transmissions on the guardband in 2 local areas. Perhaps MBD, you live in a reasonably flat or elevated position so you have a reasonable coverage area from where you are.
This decision may also make it illegal to tap into someone elses feed for a couple of hours for a specialty show via an Internet stream, such as what is happening now by a couple of LPFMers way across the country. Not to mention the end of the news feed that is being discussed.
Ross.
M.B & J.D Duffy wrote:
Hi group well I guess some might be sweating a bit right now especially those lpfm operators who in my opinion (and it is only an opinion) breach the spirit of lpfm by running networks and multiple tx's either in the same town, city or further afield.Does clause 2.2 of the new regs read that networking or linking are now banned.If this is true I say about time as it will restore what lpfm should be used for and also free up much needed freq. being used by people (not just rhema) that want to use the lpfm band for commercial or semi commercial aplications.MBD
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