Well guys, I’ve pulled some strings and I’ve got a transmitter, its not a full grade commmercial transmitter but it should do the trick, only puts out less than a watt. Put I’ve tested it at home and it goes through two walls all the way to the bottom of my garden by the street, so it should work fine at the rink

Does anyone have a real long USB extension cable that we can use for both night, the longer the better! just so we can mount it in a high place for the best coverage!

Actually, it was one of those I was looking at getting, I think it could to the trick, im sorting it out afterschool today with someone I know who has one, remember we can always mount it up higher if we need to to improve coverage.

What would be the most suitbale computer to use for the commentray Ryan? Can you sort something?

Just in case anyones interested, these are some guidelines I’ve noted that we’d need to stick to, but i’ll make sure we’re well within those guidelines!

Without limiting the provision, the 25km rule applies as follows:
within 25km of any low power FM transmitter, there may be no more than one other low power FM transmitter; and
within 25km of a spectrum/radio licence transmitter, there may be no more than one low power FM transmitter;

broadcasting substantially the same programme.

“Low Power FM transmitter operators, at least once every three hours, must broadcast the contact details of the person responsible for the transmissions.”

This requirement could be met by a spoken announcement of the name by which the station is identified, or the name of the person responsible for the establishment and operation of the transmitter, where that name is the subject of a current telephone directory listing.

If there is no telephone directory listing, the requirement could be met by including one of the following in the announcement:

a business telephone number
a business address
a residential telephone number
a residential address
a valid e-mail address
a postal address

But i’ll sort all that out, but its jsut a bit of a guideline of and as to what hoops, im gonna have to jump through to arrange this for the weekend ” title=”Smiley” />

I’ll see what I can do though!

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Oh for sure, I can think of small stations in the past that have done that with their PEP power has been increased by more than 4 times! the licence that I would have to use for my gear that can do the broadcast, is a stsp (short term special purpose) and its generally inspocted by a RSM or MED person, just becasue it can pump out more than five watts, nut also has the abilitys to do a lot of damage on a lot of big radio stations. Also becasue we can have cross channel splatter etc occuring. I also have to make sure all my Is and Ts are crossed, its not a good look for a professional person to get caught out!

but you have to remember that a high power output is no use if you’ve got a poor arieal system anywayy

But anyway thats beyond the point, I have all that sorted, 5 watts is what we’re allowed to use and we dont even need to go that high, I would imagine a watt at the most mounted anywhere will cover the whole rink area quite happily.

yeah for sure, im available any time for a yarn. Its not hard to do, if we can work stuff out i can source the gear and some helpers just to ensure it all runs smoothly

Well im not an old style radio person, but I can tell you about radio broadcasting. ” title=”Wink” />

Its an option that could be looked into I guess, i can accquire the gear. There’s a few issues surronding how we can broadcast

The PEP has to be no more the 5 watts, which is simple to do so it woould only be coverage within say a few km of the rink

The other issue is with the radio inspector, getting a frequency allocation which again isn’t hard to do and only other issues are technical such as modulation levels etc but I can sort that out

We do it for work all the time,  its simple to do and probably not a bad idea ” title=”Grin” />

I’ll back on that comment , hockeys a rough sport. If you dont like being pushed etc dont play. So excactly right, roughness is the nature of the game and if you dont like it dont play it