Thanks heaps guys,

I'm in the land down under. We have here a licensing category where they
issue the top end of the broadcast band between1611 to 1701 for what is
called Narrowband Area Services. This in Australia is outside the "official"
broadcasting bands. Also we are on 9khz steps here. All this is inline with
the ITU rules. So it leaves the gap where you finsh at 1710.

I'm not sure of the exact politics but here we follow the same specs as
Europe under the conventions of the ITU. We also have TWO regulators here
one for RADIO Emmisions (two ways / CB etc etc etc). The other one
"regulates" everything termed "broadcasting". This is the Australian
Broadcasting Authority the other is Australian Communications Authority.

As one can see one needs to operate within the other for issueing of TV
AM/FM radio licenses. When you ask for a freq NOT within the Broadcasting
Bands the fun starts! SW here is not concidered viable but the ACA sees alot
of HF Spectrum going to waste so issues TXer licenses. The same thing
happened with the little golden bit on top of our Broadcast Band 1611 to
1701. The ACA will issue licenses to TRANSMIT on them under specs less than
broadcast and more like a two way quality (no one does though).

By definition you are operating a "broadcasting service" as seen by the
ABA,but you don't need to worry about the ABA's silly rules as you are not
under their area of control. If they really want to get you they could, on
content regardless but you are not running an illegal TX this is covered by
the ACA.

Station X runs as a netcaster currently from Australia. I've got a few of
these NAS licenses at 400 watts and one SW on 2368khz designed mainly for
domestic HF coverage.

There is not much available in Australia on tricky aerial designs. The
station is not any really big operation so the investment needs to be
comparible. Setting up a 40 meter mast (although needed ) is not going to
happen. We have an interesting rule here for town planing that says Amateur
Radio operators can erect a tower up to 100 feet without council
permisssion. If it was for commercial purposes no dice needs approval----oh
dear?????

A power pole and conduit carring the MF wires up with a beam on top some guy
wires coming down at 45 degrees sounds like an amatuers setup.

so thanks heaps guys.

www.stationx.com.au to read up on the "X"