PCS-Electronics

The £400+ fine and 2 years in jail(max) for running a pirate radio station is a bit off putting.

antcrowdie wrote:You need a license from Ofcom regardless of the power, I'm afraid.

are you sure, there are excemptions to the licence http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/ ... on#content

Well looking at the map i noticed id porbably only need a 2k range, *prays that the power required would meen that i dont need a licence form ofcom - unlikly tho.

On a side note i wonder why they dont offer it there.. too many stations maybe, well i know thats not true, but if they are saving a ...

You know if this is going to cost too much im just going to look into online broadcasting (gets his calculator out to do the licence calculations again)

! For the love of pete, the map doesnt even have citys marked! geese, well by the looks fo things there is a convienient gap between the green ...

antcrowdie wrote:Yep, LPFM is cheaper.

The Ofcom site has ALL the info you need - it's all in pdf format though.

PDF?! why? arh, well time to troll through them i guess.

Ouch, i'll look into the LPAM licence, i'll prorbably email/phone ofcom becuase their website wasnt very useful at all..

Wait it looks like the LPFM licence is cheaper.. hrm.. the music licenses would come up to, £625 (for the academic year) plus the licence from ofcom.. hrm..

Right, so im planning to set up a radio station at my uni as the one we already have is .. well.. crap. I have a laptop so the pci card wont work, looking for the next cheapest thing, doesnt need to be in a case, and i see one of the products doesnt need a power supply which confuses me.

I was ...