Low-power broadcasting

Welcome to The Detail.

I am your host, Cathy Antunes, and you are listening to The Detail on WSLR 96.5 LPFM in Sarasota, Florida, and WBPV 100.1 LPFM in Bradenton, Florida.

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Well, we're coming to the wire, right? With me today is Heidi Branch.

And I thank you for putting yourself out there.

It's not easy.

Everybody, you've been listening to the detail on WSLR 96.5 LPFM in Sarasota, Florida and WBPV 100.1 LPFM in Bradenton, Florida.

Be sure to stay tuned for more public affairs programming here on WSLR.

Welcome to The Detail.

I am your host, Cathy Antunes, and you are listening to The Detail on WSLR 96.5 LPFM in Sarasota, Florida and WBPV 100.1 LPFM in Bradenton, Florida.

The views and opinions of hosts, guests, callers on WSLRs are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of WSLR staff, administration, or volunteers.

With me today is someone I met.

So anyway, I'm so glad you brought that up.

Everybody, thank you so much for listening.

You've been listening to The Detail on WSLR 96.5 LPFM in Sarasota, Florida, and WBPV 100.1 LPFM in Bradenton, Florida.

Be sure to stay tuned for more public affairs programming here on WSLR.

Yeah, in 2000, the FCC, under pressure from the public, created a new class of radio station.

That was Low Power FM.

And that was partly to combat the media consolidation that was going on.

and was also to provide a legal means of doing what many people were doing illegally, which was having pirate radio stations.

But for the rest of you who may not be into the radio nerd cult that is radio engineering, Supra 89.7 has a real interference problem.

That- [laughs] that's exactly why watching this station dismiss engineers accusing people of intentionally jamming their LPFM station and spamming the same argument across various radio Facebook, uh, groups is just-- it's, it's beyond frustrating at this point.

Now, I'm gonna start off by saying the physics isn't the, the part that's unclear here.

This has gone way beyond explaining how radio propagation works, but we're gonna try to do that in a little bit.

Supra 89.7 has an actual, real problem.

Nobody's disagreeing with that.

I want to establish that first, that they do in fact have a real problem because I don't want this turned into, "Oh, you just hate LPFMs." No, actually, I like LPFMs.

LPFMs have a place on the dial.