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地震と津波についてRECネットワークからのステートメントを実行します。

我々は地震と津波の金曜日の後の日本の人のために祈ります。日本が強いと用意されています。日本が再構築されます。私たちの心は日本人とされます。

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Statement of REC Networks regarding Japan earthquake and tsunami

Friday's (JST) 8.8 earthquake off the northeastern coast of Japan's main island Honshu at Miyagi-ken and it's resulting tsunami has caused severe damage throughout Japan's eastern coast. Watching the homes in Sendai city and other coastal areas being washed away was devistating to watch. The structural damage and overall loss of property is enormous. So many people's lives have changed as a result.

Remembering G4 / the most awesome REC phone system.. ever!

Recently, Franny (remember her?) put up a Facebook group for the callers of K-Fone, another voice system that has ran until recently. The interesting thing about K-Fone and many of the REC systems was that it was developed on the same platform. First a quick tutorial on the generations of REC systems:

Generation 1 - Chatsworth 1987-1988 - Called the "REC Conference, Voice Mail and Information Access Service". Featured a live conference bridge, private voice mail and IAS boxes (one way recordings that callers can operate). Operated on an IBM XT.

Michi's Blog: Perhaps the CPB cuts will send the right message to NPR and elitist "public" radio

Perhaps, it's time for this to happen. NPR has got too big.. There was once a time when college radio stations were actually located at the college and were programmed by students and members of the community at large. But these stations out of greed towards the promotion of other university programs got bigger. Transmitter antennas moved off of campuses and on to mountaintops. Powers increased and suddenly public radio was big-time. With that, stations sprouted formats. Gone are the day of local music, local views, local people and most importantly, the students.

FCC Changes FM Table of Allotments Policy.. Bans The GTI Practice of "Channel Hopping"

The FCC has released a Memorandum Opinion and Order (MO&O) MB Docket 09-52 on Tribal and Rural issues. In this Order, the Commission has made some changes to policies related to the FM Table of Allotments as well as a change to how FM Translator applications are handled.

Radio World: REC's 2x70 is a "Commonsense Proposal"

REC 2x70 Maps in PDF | KML files for Google Earth | REC Auction 83/GTI Page

REC's "2x70" concept for the handling of the pending Auction 83 (Great Translator Invasion) applictions is starting to gain support in the broadcast engineering community. Radio World's Michael LeClair recently described our proposals:

REC’s commonsense proposals go a long way to address the faults of the 2003 translator window and point the way to a more reasonable translator allocation system.

We are very confident that we have the most sophisticated handling method for these applications that would assure that translators are available in areas where they are the most needed (the rural areas) and LPFM stations are available in the areas where they are most needed (the suburban and urban areas). "2x70" imposes a counterbalance in the current structure where there are more urban translators and more rural LPFMs. Rural LPFM must continue to be made available and if anything we feel that rural LPFM deserves a boost, we also see the value of translators in rural areas. "2x70" assures that in the rural areas where there's plenty of room for both LPFM and translators, they can both co-exist. These are opportunities that would have been foreclosed upon with the 10-cap.

REC proposes ideas to FCC to allow for translator/LPFM co-existence

REC has submitted comments to the FCC regarding the 6,400 applications for FM translators that were filed in the 2003 Auction 83 filing window, a window that REC later referred to as "The Great Translator Invasion" because the FCC received over 12,000 applications for original construction permits including thousands from two commonly owned entities.

Many in the LPFM community, including REC have stated that the granting of these translator applications have completely foreclosed on the future availability of LPFM in many major areas.

Declining cable market share and impact on PEG channels

This was a Facebook comment that I had made in response to another reader thinking that I was advocating abandoning PEG (Public Education Government) channels on traditional cable TV systems and replacing with LPFM stations.

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