On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Richard Phelps wrote:

> What Im hearing however is reports of too many asian or indian LP stations.

My beef isn't with the fact that there are too many asian or indian
stations.

My beef is that there appears to be at least 2, possibly 3 transmitters
now on 107.7 in centralish Auckland, all transmitting the SAME asian
language program. (Its quite distinctive, given its low volume, 'tinny'
sound, and what sounds like low-bitrate mp3 or some other type of internet
audio streaming protocol)... even despite the fact that they've suddenly
started transmitting over the top of two other operators, having more than
one repeater is strictly against the rules.

We've seen a very similar thing with a certain Indian station in the past,
and largely they've been unwilling to work with anyone to find ways to
mitigate interference.... hopefully this new asian station won't take the
same attitude, but until we find someone who can understand it, contacting
them is proving problematic.

Again, I would love to see the MED operate some sort of LPFM registry,
even if only to serve as a convenient method of finding out another
operators contact details.

Auckland is lucky that most LPFM'ers DO talk to each other, and we don't
have a situation (like Wellington, i'm told) where people just transmit
over each other at increasingly illegal power outputs to try and get their
signal through.


> though its there for everyones use, it doesn't mean you should set up
> transmitters at your extended families houses, and saturate the limited
> spectrum with broadcasts of your home language.

One would also like to think that maybe they would at least have a listen
to the radio before firing up their transmitter right over the top of
people, when there are actually better options which wouldn't have
splattered people... but it seems that they don't, at least not in this
case.

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Matt Camp
Station Manager
Twisted 107.7FM