[cma-l] Community Radio - call for Expressions of Interest for small fund for production

[Tony Bailey]

LPAM - I don't think those are available within the M25.  I think you 
are also not supposed to address listeners off the premises.

USA Regs

FCC Part 15 seems to be an extension of EU short range devices 
(originally know in the UK as low power radio) which regulate un- 
licensed transmitters such as used for wifi, telemetry, baby alarms, 
radio tags, walkie talkies, some radio mics, etc.  It has provision in 
the US for medium and long wave usage as well as the above.  The EU has 
now effectively included CB radio as part of the package but apart from 
the recent exemptions for small FM band 2 transmitters they don't seem 
to include low power broadcast transmitters on medium wave.

http://www.lwca.org/sitepage/part15/whatisit.htm

Tony

Ian Hickling wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:46:50 +0100
>> From: studio at ravensoundradio.co.uk
>> To: admin at londonhuayu.co.uk
>> CC: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
>> Subject: Re: [cma-l] Community Radio - call for Expressions of Interest for small fund for production
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>> What you need is a UK version of the FCC Part 15 (100 mw AM - Daylight
>> range approx 3km) rules to become a "real" radio station. Anyone want
>> to lobby for a statutory instrument?
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>> Tony Bailey
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>> London Chinese Radio wrote:
>>> Hi Jacqui,
>>>
>>> Right at the moment I am writing a proposal for making English programmes
>>> for another funder. This is because so many of our listeners can't speak
>>> English, and my background is English teaching. We consider ourselves really
>>> suitable for this kind of work, because in contrast to a "live" station, a
>>> lot of our content is pre-recorded and edited to make packages. In a way a
>>> lot of the time we work like a production house.
>>>
>>> It's a real pity that Web stations are excluded, it seems we aren't taken
>>> seriously by anyone. Actually if we had got a license, it would only be 2
>>> miles in diameter, but it would have been worth it only because people would
>>> have seen us as a "real" radio station.
>>>
>>> Recently in the CMA discussion forums there have been quite a few
>>> discussions and disagreements about the future of radio, but I notice that
>>> people who buy web radio's are really happy with the choice of content and
>>> the quality of the streams, which is better than DAB.
>>>
>>> Anyway, for us it is a shame too, not so much about being excluded, but
>>> about not being allowed into the exclusive club of licensed radio. Can't
>>> even get past the bouncer....
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter Vautier
>>> London Chinese Radio
>>>
>>>

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