Dear Y'all,
just some notes; I was at the Linz meeting but I had to leave, to go to yet
another meeting (and I haven't seen the resumee). But here's what I think:

>>5.  global pirate radio network project. to set up many mini-fm
>>transmittors around the world which broadcast net.radio over fm. this may
>>include a group scheduler which would allow people to broadcast the same
>>content automatically, and could be switched off to allow local content to
>>be broadcast when needed.
>>

It sounds really cool, but in practice the only way you can setup a global
radio is through satellite (very costly). Fm transmitter (which have a very
high quality - you may say bandwidth) need many watts to cover many kms,
and there would be all sorts of legal problems that would last forever. And
also, as I explain below, it wouldn't be somehow "right".

>>8. research possible licences for terrestrial radio.

Another mission impossible. Here in Italy, for example, you get a licence
for a city; to make a national network you have to obtain several hundred
licenses (and frequencies), and set up transmitters for each one... a
nightmare, and a very expensive one.

Instead, I feel that net radio should be aired by already existing fm
stations, and I'm working on several stations over here to have regular
broadcasts of net stuff. We're ahead in terms of concept. We shouldn't be
fooled into becoming a company, or a radio. We should stay what we are, and
let the stations understand how cool is this stuff coming from "elsewhere".
This way we can stay "small", although I like the idea of a non
geographical company that Rasa mentioned at the meeting, but have quite a
lot of "hype", without being competition: we're not radio. We have radio
already, and it mostly stinks. Let's make it better.
I also like this idea (frederich IS a thinker):

># lot of free radios in europe (and i presume that it is similar in other
>places) let run loops, minidiscs or whatever during nighttime (means:
>02.00-08.00 aproximately) - shouldn't it be possible to get these times for
>xChange-broadcasts? it'd be global radio in another sense: australia makes
>it to europe; europe to south-america &c.

This is nice; we could have a global battle with a slogan such as "night
time- net time" (geert is going to like this) to get the night on "cd
radios" for RA stuff. This could raise the point right.

statevi 'bbuono
Sergio Messina




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