N9OGL wrote:
Ashley VK3HAG wrote:
N9OGL,
Helo Ashley,
Instead of wasting your time, effort & money on a pirate TV
station,
fighting the FCC (our ACA isn't much better btw) why not volunteer
your time
and expertise to the local community radio and television stations
as
I do?
Not only could you broadcast what you want, you could help save the
community station thousands of dollars by carrying out free
maintained and
repairs. I leave my broadcasting to broadcast services and amateur
to
amateur.


Our community has one FM broadcast station and no television station.
The local station will not allow you go in and run a show on their
station. My group in the 90's tried starting a low power tv station
for
the purpose of allowing people in the community to use it. unlike
someone (K4YZ) who thinks it's all about me.

Sure it is "all about (you)", Todd.

We also have a "Public Access" channel unfortunately the cable
company has complete control over it. (something they are not allowed
to do).

Sure they can. They own the cable, the studios, the equipment,
etc.

What makes you think they can't exercise control over thier own
assets, Todd?

My group has tried repeatively to get programs on the public
access channel (including programs from the University of Illinois
and
the University of Chicago) but the cable company refuses to allow us
access to the channel. We complain to the city and the cable comes
back
say Oh we will give you access but lets wait for a few months and we
will call you. when the few months are up the proccess starts all
over
again.

You're profane, demanding, poorly organized, functionally
illiterate and rude.

What part of those personal traits do you think the cable company
finds endearing?

And two questions for US ppl on he 1) Why does the cable channel
control
community television? In Melbourne UHF Ch 31 is community tv, and
is
run by
Melbourne's Uni's as an independent organisation.


Public Access channels are created through the franchise agreement.
Cable companies are not allowed to have any editorial control over
the
channel. However, there are some cable companies and in some places
local governments who censor and "control" the access channel.

The FCC has stated that communities have the right to determine the
nature of content of what airs on thier communities systems.

Obviously someone in Taylorville is unimpressed with your ability
to meet community standards, Todd.

Judging by the way you represent yourself in this forum, I'd say
they are spot-on.

2) Why does the ARRL handbook list cable channels on your
free-to-air
tv
bandplan. Yes, we have cable tv, but our system is ABC 2 (VK's
BBC),
HSV 7,
GTV 9, ATV 10, SBS 28 & UNI 31 on the normal tv (just plug an
antenna
into
the set and tune) plus cable via Coax (Fox only downunder). If I
wanted to
do a show on Channel 31, I could, what's broadcast is up to Uni's
Student
Union, not a tv company.

Perhaps by 'time travel' N9OGL is referring to the fact that when
USA
hams
QSOs with hams Down Under or in New Zealand you are speaking to us
tommorow
and we are speaking to you yesterday


Technical your right there I remember getting off work at 5.00 pm
and getting on the radio and talk to a guy in Japan who was on his
way
to work, it was 7.00 am the next day there. The "time travel" I was
talking about will be posted on my invention blog along with
explainations of some of my other idea's these so-called hams bad
mouth.

It's not badmouthing, Todd.

You suggested using a storage capacitor cooled by liquid oxygen.
That was stupid on so many levels as to be hillarious.

And in the realm of communications, you "propose" a
networking/datalink system that is several developmental generations
BEHIND current technology.

They are not "inventions"...They are really bad ideas. I just hope
I am at least 500 miles away from your power capacitor project if you
ever try to buid it.

Big Snip:

N9OGL, if you have an Echo or IRLP node nearby would you like me to
connect
to it and give a demonstration on this. No point having a broadcast
of any
description until you have the fundamentals in place-grammar,
pronunciation,
spelling, don't bother, it's hard enough to capture a (any)
audience
with
these traits.

I'm usually on echolink, my repeater is also tied into it. The
echolink
on the repeater is off by my personal station is up.

Yes, Todd...you still have yet to tell us about all those
homebrew/kitbuilt features of N9OGL...remember..?!?! You were
"badmouthing" all those "appliance operators"...??? You have yet to
give us an accounting of your station or repeater lineup.

Steve, K4YZ