It’s no secret that http://www.freetalklive.com is may favorite podcast. It’s the number one podcast on podcastalley. At least it was last month.

And, we don’t get their radio broadcast here in Central Jersey. It would be a good libertarian outreach and may we could change some minds about big Gooferment.

As a EE, I know that the FCC allows low power local radio. So I had a vision of FTL everywhere on low power boxes.

When FTL was live, the inet feed would be passed to the transmitter. Other times, it would play a loop of the weeks shows.

6 nights a week times 3 hours = 18 hours of live content.

7 days per week times 24 hours equals 168 hours. Minus the 18 live hours. Equals 150 hours of rebroadcast. So about 8 rebroadcasts in a week.

You’d have to figure the schedule so that each time block played a different section:

So, now I need an appliance that will, given a stream, transmit it at a low power. I’m assuming that a pc properly setup could either pass along the live feed or create a stream from the downloaded mp3 files.

Maybe FTL could put some “special commercials” in the feed. Like, “You are listening to a (live / recorded) broadcast of FTL over low power community radio from your neighbor who thought this was entertaining.”

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