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Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do? (lemmy.radio)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Honestly spawn a ton of pirate fm radio stations

Radio is super cool and it's criminal that we allowed the fencing of these commons. If pirate radio started popping up in massive quantities so as to make enforcement impossible, that would be really cool, and beneficial to society in terms of giving people access to non right wing perspectives and exposure to music that's not the same 10 songs of Dad Rock on 95.5 the edge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Amateur Radio is regulated, as is radio in general, because it all uses the same limited resource, shared radio spectrum.

The reason that mobile phones, Bluetooth, WiFi, emergency services, aviation and "the edge" work at all is because it's so heavily regulated.

Radio licensing isn't a fencing of commons, it's essential to make it work at all.

Consider for example a phenomenon called harmonics. A transmitter on one frequency also emits signal at multiples of that frequency. This is true for all transmitters. So what you do on one frequency affects other users on other frequencies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Thanks for your thought out and reasoned response

I guess it depends on where you are but outside of major cities, aka the vast majority of the us, there's nothing on most of the FM spectrum other than dead air. As long as harmonics are properly filtered the harm from low power FM transmission would be relatively limited in my view. The Internet makes the dissemination of proper broadcasting practice much easier. Opening up the spectrum for low power transmission would do a lot to get folks interested in radio in my view.

Although thinking about all the nuclear takes I am constantly bombarded with online maybe giving folks another medium for self expression isn't the best idea lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Although thinking about all the nuclear takes I am constantly bombarded with online maybe giving folks another medium for self expression isn't the best idea lol

Tune into Citizen's Band sometime if your country has one lol, it's a mess but is entertaining

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