http://www.zilionis.lt/airtime/

FOR TRANSMISSIONS TO NORTHERN EUROPE

COVERAGE BROADCAST
BAND, POWER,
TIME SLOTS AVAILABLE, PRICE per hour

Northern Europe Short Wave 100,000watts Any except 07:59-10:00
& 22:59-02:00 UTC €79/$98


Northern Europe, Short Wave, 50,000watts, Any except 07:59-10:00
& 22:59-02:00 UTC €56/$69


Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Baltic States, AM / MW, 150,000w Any except 18:00-22:00 UTC €99/$122

Central, Western & Northern Europe, AM / MW, 550,000w, Any between 23:00-02:55 UTC €229/$283

http://www.zilionis.lt/airtime/sw310.htm 50,000 watt shortwave in northern europe for $69 an hour. just look at that grim coverage map

Nice. That place.

if only i had a lot of money. id have my own syndicated metal show over AM and shortwave bands in europe

the internet? is that this still around?

All of the radio show hosts on RTTP should pool our money, record our weekly shows and then rebroadcast them in a huge block of metal over AM radio in Europe.

we can be millionaires after doing the american thing and pinching the pockets all of europes metal scene with shows our radio network will host

of course theres also the option of you all pooling your money and buying the 100 watt AM tube transmitter that i got that covers from 1500 khz - 30 mhz. been tryin to sell it for a while. we could use an LPAM collective project.

you are nailed to the AM...
I'm nailed to the FM

the coolest thing (and the next "big wave" mark my words here) is going to be digital AM. a huge bandwidth that not much is done with.. especially on a crowded dial.
also, when it's 44.1Khz digital, AM will travel better and further.

digital am is a farse. theres no way you can digitalise an AM signal and make it sound better than what locals signals are already at. the stations that have tried IBOC run into problems like hmm their audio sounding like a 28k webstream. the broadcasting stations broadcast at a wide enough bandwidth to get some bass bumping, but the problem lies in the fact that most all AM recievers have narrow audio and an antenna somewhere between 1% and 5% efficiency. digital AM isnt going far. what SHOULD happen to the AM dial is it should be cleared of all commercial operations and opened up for hobbyist mom/pops type of community broadcast outlets in good ol analog AM mode with a power cap of something like 500 watts

digital AM would make 500watts from where you are reach NYC.
In order to recieve digital AM, everyone would have to get all new AM recieving equipment.

Then, you could easily pack 44.1Khz data digitally into AMs long frequency. It would be awesome.

actually, with digital, you could pack more than one station on one frequency AND be able to send text messages

its just too bad they have to do it on a band thats prone to atmospheric noise, man made interference like distant stations skipping in, and shit like that. and it too bad a bunch of rich clearchannel/NAB backed tools are the ones putting this crap out. ive reached west point NY with 120 watts on 27mhz CB band, with a base station antenna 20' off the ground mounted on my chimney, so im sure 500 would reach NYC from my place. (not that i want the FCC field oraphice hearing me).

you've hit the nail on the head there... DIGITAL!
with digital, there is no atmospheric interference... no static... no buzzing.. no wurring.. nothing like that. with your current AM, if you are getting a signal AT ALL, if it were digital, you would have crystal clear sound.

this of it this way, 500 watts digital covers the equivalnet radius of a 5000-10000 watt analogue signal. my station broadcasts at 6000watts (eff.) analogue. to cover that same area, it's only 380 watts digital (I think that's eff. too). Too bad no one out there has a digital reciever in their car...

NAB isn't that bad... they have a lot of handy work shops that you can test out all this industry equipment at.

ill believe it when i see it. conventional radio theory dictactes that if you widen and spread the signal, that you need to up the wattage to get the same signal punch. digital doesnt mean shit if its still relying on age old technology to carry it. digital cell phones which rely on radio transmission to work dont work any better in my town than the analog sets and there are still many large areas of dead nothing zone.

let me lay something out for you. for AM radio band, 1/4 wavelength at those low freq.s is somewhere between 830+ and 125' depending at what spot on the dial you operate. the reason why i find this digital AM radio thing as counterproductive is that with the lack of space, like i said most AM recievers are around 1-5% efficient from the severely shortened antennas. some car AM radios top out about 8-9%. one thing that happens when you shorten the antenna is that its resonant bandwidth becomes narrow. especially on AM band where most recivers have no more than 10' in electrical length. one of the reasons you get good sound from FM is that at higher frequencies having a resonant 1/4 wave antenna is more practical. believe it or not a lack of antenna resonance does have a bad effect on audio when the signal strength isnt real strong. this is true for recieving and broadcasting antennas. if a radio station was to broadcast through a piece of 10' wire, wider portion of the signal wouldnt go far and the audio would be effected. most every car's FM antenna is just a 1/4wave whip. i also dont believe the thing about this digital signal on .530-1.710 mhz being interference-free when i lose reception of everything radio when i drive under a traffic light and have recieved signals from thousands of miles away on AM band.

so far the only people i see supporting IBOC digital AM radio are the people who dont really know how radio signals are made in the first place on a technical level, or people who stand to make money off of it.
i wouldnt consider an NAB tech workshop to hold much truth since they are the same people who made a fake recording of a simulated test of an LPFM station and how they would interfere so badly with large 20,000 watt blowtorches that community based 100 watt stations should not be allowed to get a license. the nab is partly behind the deregulation of the industry making open access to the airwaves a near impossible thing. to say theyre not bad is way off. them and clearchannel are like the halliburton of radio.

paragraph 1) digital is 1's and 0's.. it's either you have a singal or not. digital cellphones (ala pcs) are designed low power. Sprint PSC was actually desined to have a tower on every other tellephone pole. If you want to see it, jsut get into a cat with a digital FM radio.

paragraph 2) you forget, digital signals can buffer.

paragraph 3) Sorry, I sould have clearidied... not atual broadcasting equipment on the end, but broadcasting equipment at the beginning... things like hard-drive system and the ilk of that.

and, all I'm saying is that digital boardcasting is the bomb...
in 25 years, the kid who is you then, will be broadcasting digital.
I'm guessing that the FCC will have deregulated a chunk of bandwidth what you can play with, but since it's digial it'll be like the internet and there will be a web-like interface to most frequencies allowing more that one person to be on, say 91.3FM or 1650am. And xxx watts will get you heard around the world since simlcasting on the web will be automatic from regional hubs that are run by google/yahoo/etc...

at this point, digital broadcast encodes will come in a package the size of one of our transistors.

this is something that im gonna leave at ill believe it when i see it