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by solomonb 8mo ago
Thank you! The LPFM license system was started in 2000 so its pretty new.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I think the suggestion is to use AREDN for our backhaul from the station to the transmit site instead of 802.11ah. So it wouldn't be for broadcast per se, but I am still skeptical that is an allowed use for AREDN.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I would be really surprised if we are allowed to use AREDN. We need a studio to be able to do live radio shows. Currently our hosts have to pre-record and submit through an online dashboard. The goal is to have a live studio in Shadow Hills
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I worked with https://commonfrequency.org to acquire the license. Their mission is to help local community groups acquire LPFM licenses nationwide.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I agree that there is a strong allure to being strictly terrestrial. I actually started such a station 15 years ago under the Part 15 rules for unregulated broadcast band transmission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCHU
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by solomonb 8mo ago
For terrestrial broadcast or online? You go through a handful of music industry organizations such as ASCAP and BMI. For terrestrial broadcast the costs are scaled to approximate listenership.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
https://stream.kpbj.fm At the moment we are only airing a few new shows per day and filling the rest of our airtime with content from archive.org and other free sources (chosen by all our hosts), but over time more of the schedu
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by solomonb 8mo ago
You essentially have to be in the right place at the right time. The FCC releases LPFM channels every year all over over the country. If you have a 501c3 non-profit within the designated broadcast area you can apply for the channel. They te
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by solomonb 8mo ago
To be clear this is an FCC licensed LPFM station. Also I am /much/ more interested in terrestrial radio but the reality is that the vast majority of listeners are online and not using a radio. : (
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Thanks! We haven't been using the mailing list much, I'm afraid of coming off spammy, but I appreciate the support and hope you enjoy the station!
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Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station(kpbj.fm)
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by solomonb 8mo ago
As someone who takes on _a lot_ of side projects, I like your idea of a metaproject! I often wonder what draws me to pick up so many interests and goals. I used to think its leading me towards something but after so many years I have starte
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by solomonb 8mo ago
The article defines it through an example: > You've been wanting to take cooking classes, but you've also been wanting to join an improv group. If you don't have time/resources for both of these projects, you might c
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by solomonb 8mo ago
From the article: validateNonEmpty :: [a] -> IO () validateNonEmpty (_:_) = pure () validateNonEmpty [] = throwIO $ userError "list cannot be empty" parseNonEmpty :: [a] -> IO (NonEmpty a) parseNon
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by solomonb 8mo ago
This is such a tired take. The burden of using static types is incredibly minimal and makes it drastically simpler to redesign your program around changing business requirements while maintaining confidence in program behavior.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I disagree. I think the key insight is to carry the proof with you in the structure of the type you 'parse' into.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
that sounds really cool but i've already made a commitment to HTMX, at least for the foreseeable future. My main goal here is building a physical radio station.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Yeah I'm pretty happy with HTMX. I first cut my teeth on programming in the early 2000s with LAMP stack then Ruby on Rails and Django. It feels pretty great to be able to do a web 2.0 style application but still get most of the functio
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Still working on my LPFM radio station, www.kpbj.fm. We launched our regular online stream and have secured a site for our transmitter. The transmit site is in the Verdugo hills and will need to be off grid. We're going to need about $
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by solomonb 8mo ago
This really isn't a big deal as it resolved via type universes.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
> that world has definitely not stood still, and the prices have come down considerably. But I'd love to have my old frequency counter and pulse generator back My whole workbench is mid to late 90s HP equipment I've picked up v
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I never went back to that engineering department. I ended up befriending a former Northrop RF Engineer and a (sadly) homeless genius who was involved in early silicon valley. Those two guys were incredibly impactful on me and got me all the
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by solomonb 8mo ago
When I was in college I was not in an engineering program but I was self-learning electronics. I was trying to learn to use a 555 timer to do something and couldn't get it to work. So I went to the office hours of a random EE professor
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by solomonb 9mo ago
Thank you! I genuinely think its an awesome project and will probably end up supporting. I didn't realize I could potentially use it as a highly hackable phone. Whats the battery life like? EDIT: I just went ahead and pledged my suppor
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by solomonb 9mo ago
Lol, Cyberdeck aka high effort paper weight. There are so many cool vaguely scifi tech projects one could build these days but almost none of them have actual utility. : (
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by solomonb 9mo ago
Stumbled across this thing a while back and thought it looked really cool but I have never been able to come up with an idea for how I would use it so I haven't pledged. I want to want it but I fear it would just sit on my desk. Does a
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by solomonb 9mo ago
This seems largely the same as any other technology. The prices of new technologies go down initially as we scale up and optimize it's production, but as soon as demand fades, due to newer technology or whatever, the cost of that techn
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by solomonb 9mo ago
okay how about the Francis Scott Key Bridge? https://marylandmatters.org/2025/11/17/key-bridge-replacemen...
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by solomonb 9mo ago
I agree. I think that once your LLM hits a baseline level of computer science / programming "understanding" it can pretty easily work with whatever language. Using narrow DSLs and low code platforms could be a great way to co
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by solomonb 9mo ago
> After I “Requested changes” he’d get frustrated that I’d do that, and put all his changes in an already approved PR and sneak merge it in another PR. This is outrageous regardless of AI. Clearly there are process and technical barriers

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