[IRCA] DX opportunity? (FM)

["lynn" <lynn@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought this might interest some of you - it's an LP FM, tho... 

 From the Houston Chronicle, 9/13/05
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Low-power station to broadcast at the 'Dome 

If all goes well technically, a delayed low-power radio station will begin 
broadcasting news and information at noon today to evacuees living in the 
Reliant Park shelters. 

KAMP -- for Katrina Aftermath Media Project -- will broadcast at 95.3 FM at 
just 6 watts. Renee Feltz, news director for KPFT-FM -- which has been 
spearheading the project with Indymedia -- said the station will operate 
from an Airstream trailer in the Astrodome parking lot. 

It will not initially be available over the Internet, which means it only 
will be accessible to those with an FM radio in the Reliant Park complex. 
Evacuees in the George R. Brown Convention Center will not be able to hear 
it. 

KAMP will be operating with its second FCC license. The station's organizers 
obtained an initial license from the FCC more than a week ago, but county 
officials denied the station access inside the Astrodome based on the 
resources required, Feltz said. 

The group applied for a second license that has them operating outside the 
'Dome. 

"We've got our own generator to make our own electricity, we've even got our 
own bathrooms," Feltz said. 

Feltz contended that, had the station been operating earlier under the 
initial license, it might have been able to help disseminate information 
during last weekend's confusion over the issuance of debit cards. 

The station will offer information about services, audio from other shelters 
in Texas and news items from the state's affected, she said. 

 -- Dwight Silverman
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You also might want to check out the KAMP website - 
http://evacuationradioservices.org/ 

My apologies if this has been posted before - I think they originally wanted 
to start broadcasting on 9/7 but were unable to get thru all the red tape... 

Lynn.
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