Looking for other radio folks- got blue sky promises- moved here- then rudely fired

[woogie]

Two ideas for names for your station........

"Radio Free Southern Maryland"

or

"Voice of St. Mary's"

Good luck with your venture. They NEED quality radio!!!

 

[(((echo)))]

Lemme know if you need a DJ (I have some experiance) but it's gonna be hard to match my current wages

 

[RadioCtrlDWife]

We are bot DJs, we are engineeres

and I thought his wife was a cop, not another DJ. :shrug:

DAMNIT Kirk, We are engineers not DJs. We are husband/wife engineering team.
Serriously- thanks for trhe support, friends.
Are there any good labor lawyers here anyone can recomend?
I have never taken court action against anyone. I have a patent attorney, not a litigator. There is a company here holding a large sum of our wages without cause.
Thanks
this is how it happened

 

[keepsmiling]

DAMNIT Kirk, We are engineers not DJs. We are husband/wife engineering team.
Serriously- thanks for trhe support, friends.
Are there any good labor lawyers here anyone can recomend?
I have never taken court action against anyone. I have a patent attorney, not a litigator. There is a company here holding a large sum of our wages without cause.
Thanks
this is how it happened

http://www.lawyers.com/Maryland/Upper-Marlboro/Sheldon-L.-Gnatt-644297-a.html?

I don't know if this gentleman can help you, but he listens and he will direct you in the right direction. Good luck to the both of you.

 

[RadioCtrlDWife]

thanks

 

[BS Gal]

Contact Joe Densford in Leonardtown. You can see him for nothing and if he can't do anything, he'll refer you to someone who can.

 

[Dead Eye]

What sort of station you thinking of putting together? Antenna height ? Power ?

 

[RadioCtrlDWife]

Radiko Options

What sort of station you thinking of putting together? Antenna height ? Power ?

Hi
My first choice would be a 'Class B' noncommercial which is a maximum of 50 kW ERP at 500 Feet above average terrain.
There are also options for a "traveler's information service" to be licensed to the county. This is a series of low power AM stations dispersed geographically thru the county that normally would transmit trafic information, historic site information and be there for emergency information. FCC rules prohibit TIS stations from broadcasting music.
Another way is some non profit foundations operating independent LPFM stations in each geographic area-available to the EMS people at the flick of a switch.
There are MANY ways to do this. I can do the engineering and FCC work, but we would need a group skilled in proposal writing and fund rasing to do the heavy lifting and politics in the community.

 

[Jeff]

Hi
My first choice would be a 'Class B' noncommercial which is a maximum of 50 kW ERP at 500 Feet above average terrain.
There are also options for a "traveler's information service" to be licensed to the county. This is a series of low power AM stations dispersed geographically thru the county that normally would transmit trafic information, historic site information and be there for emergency information. FCC rules prohibit TIS stations from broadcasting music.
Another way is some non profit foundations operating independent LPFM stations in each geographic area-available to the EMS people at the flick of a switch.
There are MANY ways to do this. I can do the engineering and FCC work, but we would need a group skilled in proposal writing and fund rasing to do the heavy lifting and politics in the community.

I would be willing to get involved and help if you go forward with this. I don't have any special formal skills to bring to the table but I have done alot of Volunteering in the county.

Director of Fields for St. Mary's Youth Soccer for a couple of years
Communications Chair for St. Mary's County Chapter of the American Red Cross
Secretary for St. Mary's County R.E.A.C.T. for a short time.

Other than that I am somewhat of a scanner nut and tend to have an ear on most of what is going on around the area.

I don't much care for the local SOMAR stations at all. When I was on the Red Cross the fellow that owned SOMAR had the state pull all the generators out of his stations. I have issues with that ever since.

But I would love to see a station that could focus on giving repeated non stop announcements in times of Severe Weather, Power Failures etc.

 

[unixpirate]

Hi
My first choice would be a 'Class B' noncommercial which is a maximum of 50 kW ERP at 500 Feet above average terrain.
There are also options for a "traveler's information service" to be licensed to the county. This is a series of low power AM stations dispersed geographically thru the county that normally would transmit trafic information, historic site information and be there for emergency information. FCC rules prohibit TIS stations from broadcasting music.
Another way is some non profit foundations operating independent LPFM stations in each geographic area-available to the EMS people at the flick of a switch.
There are MANY ways to do this. I can do the engineering and FCC work, but we would need a group skilled in proposal writing and fund rasing to do the heavy lifting and politics in the community.

Mo Ho in the morning and 98.3 need to go! They are NOT even in my channel sets. They out right suck!

Noone rocks more than DC101..

Good Luck!

 

[RadioCtrlDWife]

Well, It was not DC101 or WHFS who fired us..

Mo Ho in the morning and 98.3 need to go! They are NOT even in my channel sets. They out right suck!

Noone rocks more than DC101..

Good Luck!

THANKS FOR THE PROPS-
HFS and DC101 are my grown children.
We are professionaly embarrased as engineers by the reliablitiy isses that we were powerless to addrees in our last tour of duty.
Look to my previous work- observe WHFS and DC101's "up time'. When was the last time DC101 was off the air?
With those two stations' facilities down time is measured in units of minutes per year, not hours per day. I was Chief Engineer of both of them serially as a youth.
I am still welcome there and I was hired as a consultant to supervise the DC101 move to Rockville a few years ago - almost 30 years after my official tour of duty ended with them in 1979.
But I was not good enough for this owner, I guess one cant please everyone.
We did our best and our best was not good enough-- never had that happen before.

 

[unixpirate]

THANKS FOR THE PROPS-
HFS and DC101 are my grown children.
We are professionaly embarrased as engineers by the reliablitiy isses that we were powerless to addrees in our last tour of duty.
Look to my previous work- observe WHFS and DC101's "up time'. When was the last time DC101 was off the air?
With those two stations' facilities down time is measured in units of minutes per year, not hours per day. I was Chief Engineer of both of them serially as a youth.
I am still welcome there and I was hired as a consultant to supervise the DC101 move to Rockville a few years ago - almost 30 years after my official tour of duty ended with them in 1979.
But I was not good enough for this owner, I guess one cant please everyone.
We did our best and our best was not good enough-- never had that happen before.

What brings you to Southern Maryland

 

[RadioCtrlDWife]

like many, i was lured here with blue sky promisises

What brings you to Southern Maryland

I was working, doing very well, as an independant consultant and have some health issues. I got this fantastic offer of " become my employee and you will get the best health insurance". Also discussed were accomidartions for my health issues to include employing my wife who is also an engineer to asist me and assurances it was understood this offer was "a job till you retire".
The rest of the details will have to wait for the proper venue to be aired.
Looks as if I am not alone with this senerio of blue sky and suden termination at will and whim of the moment.

 

[Jeff]

Check your PM'er

Ha. I though about you when I saw this thread. Was wondering when you would chime in. Now you be nice now IrishGal!!!!

 

[unixpirate]

I was working, doing very well, as an independant consultant and have some health issues. I got this fantastic offer of " become my employee and you will get the best health insurance". Also discussed were accomidartions for my health issues to include employing my wife who is also an engineer to asist me and assurances it was understood this offer was "a job till you retire".
The rest of the details will have to wait for the proper venue to be aired.
Looks as if I am not alone with this senerio of blue sky and suden termination at will and whim of the moment.

Mike or Moose, not sure which one cause I don't listen to that poor excuse for a radio station, and your finally coming out of the closet to tell all :shrug:

 

[RadioCtrlDWife]

We are NOT DJs, We are engineeres

Mike or Moose, not sure which one cause I don't listen to that poor excuse for a radio station, and your finally coming out of the closet to tell all :shrug:

We are not Moose, Mike or any other DJs.WE ARE ENGINEERS
As long as we are on topic Moose, Mike, Sarah,T=Bone, Hether,Ralph,Dawn,Boomer-- lets do a nincomercial station here-- we need talent. Or send money,guns and lawyers, LOL
I am a Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer and my wife is a BEIT [broadcast engineer in training] preparing to take the SBE CRE tests.
I have not done DJ shifts since 1976 at WGTB [Georgetown U].

 

[Dougstermd]

I just need free internet

 

[RadioCtrlDWife]

free internet

I just need free internet

Try the library.

 

[CableChick]

Try the library.

:giggle:

 

[Richard Cranium]

Almost sounds like a radio version of JPC