[hackerspaces] Hacker TV Station

[Brain Tank]

We're currently looking for the most legal way possible to do this in
Rhode Island. The idea of using a HAMTV setup is probably not a good
idea I agree. However. I've been looking at LPTV licensing and it
seems fairly interesting. There's a pretty large maker community here
with a few hacker types scattered here and there. If contacting the
FCC is as bad as you say it is well I guess we're SOL. It would be
fairly easy to clip already aired shows from hacker type tv shows and
just stream it like a channel. I would like to be able to then
transmit over the air and take advantage of the Necessary Carry law.
Or whatever it's called where class A stations need to retransmit your
signal. The only issue I can see hardware wise is turning our signal
into proper DTV QAM.
Any ideas? A tv station web based or physical or both would be an
excellent ignorance repellent.

On Tuesday, August 10, 2010, Matthew Forr <matthew.forr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree, content first seems like a good way to go as that will require the most effort over the long haul.
> That being said we were contemplating  an AM station in Baltimore (or multiple @ the regulatory min spread out) but I couldn't commit to the content to make it worthwhile.
>
> Perhaps one day I'll have some good knowledge worth sharing or an opinion strong enough to shout it from the rooftops :)
>
> —Matthew Forr
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:34 PM, RGB <blippo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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>     If you are so excited to make your own broadcast, why don't you
>     start with some content first and spread it wide via Internet.
>     Streaming even live is waaaaay to cheaper, legal and you can target
>     hackers all around the globe, not just within reach of your antenna.
>     If the UHF broadcasting is your goal and interest you will very soon
>     face FCC (in US) or other regulators (in other parts of the world)
>     and you basically cannot effectively hide as a pirate...
>
>     RGB
>
>     On 10.8.2010 17:11, Brain Tank wrote:
>
>       With the Analog Broadcast system having been switched over in
>         the US I'd like to take advantage of the empty space and make a
>         LPTV/HAMTV station at our Hackerspace. We're having a bit of
>         trouble translating the legal end of things. We have our General
>         class HAM licenses and we can see HAMTV is often transmitted on
>         channels 57-60 CATV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_television
>
>
>
>       Some questions that we've been unable to resolve are:
>
>
>           Can we stream YouTube all day long?
>
>
>           I realize theres a limitation as far as commercial things
>             over HAM radio but what about "promotions" using HAMTV?
>
>
>           How far are we allowed to transmit?
>
>
>           Are the HAMTV bands even necessary to be limited to with
>             all the freed up analog bandwidth?
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>
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>
>       Things may have changed a bit now that the bands have opened
>         up but I cannot find specific information anywhere on the net.
>
>
>       We think we can achieve this using one of these 5watt
>           TV Transmitters <http://www.pcs-electronics.com/transmitters-transmitter-kits-c-101_113.html>.
>
>
>       If anyone has the ability to help answer these we could do an
>         easy tutorial with the other information I've collected and post
>         it for other Hackerspaces to build their own cheap TV Station.
>
>
>       -Dave
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>       www.TheBrainTank.net
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