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Topic: LPFM commercial radio

Posted By: Dj TwistedBlues
Subject: LPFM commercial radio
Date Posted: 19 February 2012 at 3:45am

there are a few of us that are wanting to setup a series
of lpfm stations throughout nz
and the look at expanding around the world
the initial system we will use is the 40w system then
once the first station is setup and revenue gathered we
will expand to the 300w system these are shown here
http://www.pcs-electronics.com/complete-pcbased-
transmitter-packages-p-1507.html?
osCsid=579991b5031efe526b5d509847dcdc3f

i have been talking to apra etc and it seems we can pull
this off however as most of us are either unemployed or
have real life disabilities we are finding it hard to
find the funds to get the first round of equipment
we have a very large pool of dj's already and will expand
as we go
our stream is supplied by a dutch company so costs us
nothing and all our dj's hook into that already

if someone who already has a low power fm station and
would like to earn a small income from this it would
greatly help our needs
there is a lot of info we still need and this forum has
been very enlighting to us
we still have a lot of questions and a lot to learn but
for now if anyone wants to help us out we would be
greatly apreciated

thankyou

Replies:

Posted By: RadioTech
Date Posted: 19 February 2012 at 4:10am

Good on you for trying to get something off the ground.

A few points to note:

1) If you plan to use LPFM (GURL) frequencies, you are limited to 1 watt EIRP. That means there's no point in purchasing a 40 watt or 300 watt transmitter.
You can't use that kind of power on these frequencies.

2) I strongly suggest you avoid the PCS products. They refuse to supply any service information for their products (meaning we can't repair them) and their MaxPro3000+ for example has little in the way of protection and will blow an output final in the blink of an eye. If this happens, you may as well toss the unit in the bin.

3) In the main centres (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin) you will find it near impossible to get a clear frequency. These cities are over-represented already with LPFM stations, and there is a lot of noise and distortion in the LPFM bands due to operators using adjacent (or the same!) frequencies as other operators.

If you have any more questions please feel free to ask.

Posted By: Dj TwistedBlues
Date Posted: 19 February 2012 at 4:25am

thanks for the quick response
i need to learn a little more about the frequencies tbh
apra said everything we were doing was fine but from what
im reading we need to rethink matters

however if anyone already has an operation setup and they
want to make money from broadcasting we can infact feed
what we already have to any pc based broadcasting system

our site is still being built but we can use what we do
their to broadcast anywhere
so if anyone is interesting in hooking up with us they
can still retain their own show/s but would also have the
benifit of 24/7 streaming from dj's all around the world
www.wickedlytwistedradio.com

thanks again

Posted By: cyanidemonkey
Date Posted: 23 February 2012 at 10:18pm

APRA are not really the people to talk to about setting up a LPFM radio station, they are there to collect royalties for music you play on air.
You need to review the LPFM requirements and laws from RSM (Radio Spectrum Ministry).

There is a post here with most of the information required: http://www.low-power-fm-radio.spacejunk.co.nz/forum/forum_po sts.asp?TID=3&PN=1 - http://www.low-power-fm-radio.spacejunk.co.nz/forum/forum_po sts.asp?TID=3&PN=1

That will help with the legal side of it. Hope that helps a little.

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Posted By: Dj TwistedBlues
Date Posted: 01 March 2012 at 4:00am

thanks mate
the reason we talked to apra was due to the fact we will
be broadcasting advertisements, seems our payments will
be around $11k per year per station

we need some expertise in the lpfm side of our operation,
and as this would eventually lead into a paid position we
would encourage any help we could get at this time,
discussions of a percentage in the global operation could
be offered to the right hands on person
my skype is inthewildlive
should any "serious" operator/manager wish to talk to us

thankyou again for any replys and advice given

Posted By: caveman
Date Posted: 15 March 2012 at 10:04pm

Quick note, you can only earn 10grand per year under lpfm rules. Cheers cm

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Posted By: Dj TwistedBlues
Date Posted: 15 March 2012 at 10:34pm

yep we confermed that
but
we have been offered a commercial licence from apra
so in this regard we will be paying full royalty rights
the reason we are using the low power frequencies is due to
the fact of the way we are structured and is cost effective
at this point we dont need a studio as we all work from
home only one dj is infact playing from new zealand

thanks though
Djtwisted

Posted By: Dj TwistedBlues
Date Posted: 28 November 2012 at 7:02pm

thanks for the input guys

we are nearing a launch date and will keep you posted on how it all works out

any critism and advice is welcome

Posted By: Ifinityfm
Date Posted: 02 August 2014 at 4:04am

did you get up an running??

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