And it's also sad to hear that NPR is a big opponent against micropower radio. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-power_broadcasting#Legislation https://en.wi

And it's also sad to hear that NPR is a big opponent against micropower radio. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-power_broadcasting#Legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-power_broadcasting#Legisla... NPR argues that the proposed changes would unreasonably burden its member stations by requiring them to resolve LPFM interference problems. Adoption of the new FCC rules also would jeopardize the extensive network of translators that pubradio stations have built with federal assistance and would upend the commission’s longstanding spectrum policies favoring full-power broadcasters, according to NPR. > “It may be one thing to ‘squeeze in’ secondary low-power facilities into a mature broadcast service,” NPR said, referring to the commission’s original plan for LPFM, “[but] it is quite another to reverse decades of commission policy and rules favoring higher-powered broadcast facilities by elevating LPFM stations to co-equal status with full power stations.” > “The laws of physics have not changed, and a system of full-power broadcast stations serves many more listeners with less interference compared to low-power broadcasting,” NPR wrote. > “We know there are not a lot of low-power stations out there in relation to how many could be if third-adjacency protections were lifted,” Riksen said. “We are really concerned about how many would come into creation when third-power adjacencies are eliminated entirely.”