"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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Keep in mind, also, that the average Latin American city has far more
radio stations than the Average US city. So many, that it is really absurd
to think many people would find anything on SW, from the US, that would be
better than the multitude of clean, local signals.

Argentina, with about 37 million population, has 8,300 radio stations. The
US, with nearly 300 million, has 13,500.

Why would anyone thing that there is anything that listeners in Latin
America would want to hear that a broadcaster who has to ask questions on
this board could provide.

Perhaps for the same reason that you, with your presumed superior intellect,
feel the need to post here.

-Brian

As a clinical phycologist,you could examine politicians from afar like
Dr.Justin Frank examined bush and you could give your opinions about
those crazy insane politicians.(they are all crazy and insane,ya know)

Hmmm,,, I own a half acre of land in Putnam County,Florida.(Northeast
Florida) It is sort of out in the sticks,so to speak.I wonder if I could
get a cell phone company or two or three or whatever in that that area
to put up a tower (all at their own expense,of course) and pay me a
bunch of bucks each month?
cuhulin

Frank Dresser wrote:
The site has been evaluated as a perfect location that is virtually
free from any potential liability and from the perspective of reaching
millions of people in Mexico and Central America.

WRNO in New Orleans tried something like that. I don't think it ever made
money. There's a bunch of domestic SW transmitters now, and nearly all the
programming consists of fringe evangalists, conspiracy theorists and
wierdos. It's my suspicion that these guys are far more entertaining for
the listener rather than for the broadcaster.

Preachers, preachers, preachers.

To the best of my knowledge, WWCR is profitable. I don't think you're
going to find shortwave broadcasting to be a route to riches though.
WWCR's owners had years of experience with similar programming on
regular AM stations before they tried shortwave.

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

I was driving near Harrisburg Pa and spotted WMLKs set-up.
http://wmlkradio.net/Images/fieldshot.jpg
It doesn't look that complicated.

What you would want to do is find some religious whack-jobs to lease
your land and have them build the transmitter by passing the hat. Put
in the lease some clause that if they don't pay the rent you get to
repossess the transmitter. Then you could rent it out to the enemies of
the New World Order or some other religious whack job(s).

If you look at it like a land bank, it may not be that stupid of a
deal. This presumes you have no better use for the land (storage units,
graveyard, etc.).

Frank Dresser wrote:
"DrJoe" wrote in message
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Hello all,

I am new to the group but have a specific reason for joining. The
primary reason I joined, like many of you I am sure, is to get
information about short wave radio. My situation: I have the
appropriate parcel of land (110) acres that is free from any legal
impediments to building a short wave radio tower.

You'll need more than a single tower. If I'm not mistaken, the FCC requires
SW broadcasters to have some sort of directional array. I suppose a Yagi or
quad could be operated from a single tower, but those normally are good for
only a single band and they are cumbersome at the most used SW frequencies.


The land is located
in West Central Alabama, in rural Fayette County.I also have the
necessary funding to build a short wave radio tower and transmitter.
The site has been evaluated as a perfect location that is virtually
free from any potential liability and from the perspective of reaching
millions of people in Mexico and Central America.

WRNO in New Orleans tried something like that. I don't think it ever made
money. There's a bunch of domestic SW transmitters now, and nearly all the
programming consists of fringe evangalists, conspiracy theorists and
wierdos. It's my suspicion that these guys are far more entertaining for
the listener rather than for the broadcaster.


Questions for the group:

1. What are the potential financial rewards for owning and operating a
short wave radio transmitter/tower?

A couple of years ago, Dave Frantz was soliciting people to buy time on WWRB
for $25.00 a half hour. Considering all the expenses, it sounds like a good
way to turn billionaires into millionaires!


2. How does an owner go about establishing a revenue stream from
potential purchasers of air time.

Get paid in advance. Brother Stair has claimed he pays as little as seven
or eight dollars an hour for SW airtime.


3. Who would the primary customer base be?

Give the dial a spin and listen to who is currently buying time on the other
US SW outlets. I suspect your first contacts will be guys who've been
kicked off WWCR, WWRB, WRMI and the others for not paying their bills.


Comments or suggestions?

Thank you,

DrJoe (newbie)


Frank Dresser

"Invader3K" wrote:

Going back to the original post, you said you want to target Mexico and
Central America. What kind of programming would you plan on providing?
Spanish language talk? Music? News coverage?

Oops, my bad -- I managed to miss that in the original post. Sorry
about that.

--
Eric F. Richards

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most
experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in;
we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
- Nathaniel S. Borenstein

"DrJoe" wrote in message
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Thanks to everyone who made a good faith effort to answer my questions.
It is true, I do not have much experience with tower/radio...I am a
clinical psychologist, not an expert in radio. I just had a person
interested in buying my land for the very purpose I state and wanted to
knw more about his reasons for wanting it.

Thank you!


So, were you actually thinking of getting into SW broadcasting?

Frank Dresser

"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
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Preachers, preachers, preachers.

To the best of my knowledge, WWCR is profitable. I don't think you're
going to find shortwave broadcasting to be a route to riches though.
WWCR's owners had years of experience with similar programming on
regular AM stations before they tried shortwave.


The plan the original poster presented, broadcasting into Latin America from
a Gulf State, was pretty much what WRNO tried. But, it's my impression that
big time advertisers weren't interested because they didn't know how many
people were actually listening. WRNO's rhombic antenna also put a HUGE
signal up through the Northern US Midwest and the center of Canada. They
couldn't get their commercial radio model to work, so they ended taking just
about any programming which came along. I think it was WRNO which was
embarassed into cancelling a Nazi leaning racist program which was broadcast
in German.

Frank Dresser

"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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"Invader3K" wrote in message
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Going back to the original post, you said you want to target Mexico and
Central America. What kind of programming would you plan on providing?
Spanish language talk? Music? News coverage?

Keep in mind, also, that the average Latin American city has far more
radio
stations than the Average US city. So many, that it is really absurd to
think many people would find anything on SW, from the US, that would be
better than the multitude of clean, local signals.


Here, I can only dream of never missing my favorite end-timers and
conspiranoiacs due to some solar spasm or HAARP or whatever.

Frank Dresser

"Frank Dresser" wrote:



Here, I can only dream of never missing my favorite end-timers and
conspiranoiacs due to some solar spasm or HAARP or whatever.

Frank Dresser



Jesus, Frank, how can you stand listening to that crap? I had you
killfiled for the longest time, because I couldn't even stand to even
*read* about that ****.

You aren't Al Patrick -- you have a functioning brain -- surely you
can do something more useful than THAT with it???


--
Eric F. Richards

"This book reads like a headache on paper."
http://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/readi...one/index.html

"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message
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Jesus, Frank, how can you stand listening to that crap? I had you
killfiled for the longest time, because I couldn't even stand to even
*read* about that ****.

I far prefer an imaginative explantion to a dry recitation of the presumed
facts. The Hidden Knowledge SW broadcasters can be very imaginative fitting
facts into their fixed world views.

Also, the end-timers and conspiranoics are making the best possible use of
SW radio. Of all the electronic media, radio demands, and rewards, the most
from our imaginations. Even more so with SW radio, as we mentally error
correct for missing syllables and words.

Or, as Alex Jones would say, "People, fill in the gaps!"



You aren't Al Patrick -- you have a functioning brain -- surely you
can do something more useful than THAT with it???



Sometimes I think it would be fun to do H. L. Mencken style rips into the
Spokesmen of God and the Quack Medics and rest of the Boobosity. But I do
admire them for their cleverness, if not their conclusions. And, on the
larger scale, whatever damage the Hidden Knowledge crowd may do is done by
persuation rather than by compulsion.

Frank Dresser