I've removed Mollom protection from all forms except: new user register, lost password form, site-wide contact form and user contact forms. This means that authenticated users can post freely without restriction and text analysis.

Why am I doing this? The Mollom product has annoyed too many of our users... So away it goes. We will possibly need to tap some volunteers to unpublish spam posts that may appear. We'll see what needed in the future.

-steve

Greets,
Just a quick note so you know whats going on. Apologies for the recent downtime, we lost the hardware that hosted this and a bunch of other sites that I run. Unfortunately at the same time of the loss of the hardware, an issue came to light: a typo in the data backup process for part15.us We lost about a month's worth of data for the website :(

I apologize for not posting this sooner, I've been crazy busy restoring websites. Also, so you guys know, there is no security issue, as that rumor came up elsewhere. We haven't been hacked. your accounts and data are safe. :)

Again, sorry for the downtime and loss of data. that issue is corrected and won't happen again!
-steve

Straight from the horse's mouth, a new service to provide alerts for deadlines and rule changes.

Which will apparently be quite soon!

Those leveraged buy-outs that drove massive consolidation seem to have come back on the financiers with a vengence.

Happy Holidays!

73's
- Steve

Some of our fellow experimenters have taken the time to post their experiences on YouTube - awesome! I found several that seemed to merit a share, and many more are likely there or soon to be added.

Anyone from here thinking about a vid?
Note: Click the YouTube logo to get the full size vid.

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As a fun experiment to expand our support of the Part 15 broadcaster community we will attempt to offer a collection of FREE software download links that you just might find useful. If you have a favorite you don't see here, please drop us a line using our Feedback Link.

RF Calculator Page This is where all those little coil calculators are located.
MP3 Gain 550k - analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume.
The MP3 VCR 6.2M - record MP3 streams off the web. Great for capturing content for rebroadcast.
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FYI,
A couple of products that I did not see mentioned on this site. If you have a macintosh running OS "X" then here are a couple of items that might be usefull:

On Air / Music Scheduling

Forum contributor Scott gave us a kick start on this new project, so I'll lift a few lines from his post to open this book page.
Scott says "I seem to recall there was a thread once that contained links to sources of free audio content. I'd like to see new, current list here, perhaps as a category under web links, or a standalone page... I'll start things off with some free audio content that I use, or have come across while looking for free content. Most of these I have asked for permission to play on my station, or gleaned enough from their website to determine that syndication was OK"

• www.ctmedia.info dysfunctional radio
• www.americansunriseradio.com American Sunrise Radio
• www.miamiradio.zoomshare.com a mixshow for low power radio stations called the Groove Factory
• www.kevinsmithshow.com live, streaming and downloadable, available to all FCC-legal & Legal Part 15 stations
• www.healthradionetwork.com live, streaming and downloadable content
• www.qualitynewsnetwork.com five-minute newscasts at the top of the hour
• www.pirateweather.com local weather delivered as a podcast
• www.naturecuresclinic.com weekly naturopathic health podcast
• www.freetalklive.com live call in show as MP3 stream and podcast
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This short tutorial will demonstrate how to create a station ID audio file to support station operations.

Using the free audio editing application called Audacity and four small WAV files, we'll create an MP3 file that can be added to most playlists. Once you see how much you can do with this simple approach you'll be able to apply these techniques to make your own station sound more professional, and more fun.
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