"Setting Up the FM Station" (June 1, 1947)

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- 5 - Be sure to answer ’’yes" to 18 (c) Relative to 22 (a), request the RCC to assign you a channel before you apply. If you are contemplating a transmitter built by a standard manufacturer, simply give the make and model number under 24, and answer the rest of these questions with the phrase "On Rile with the RCQ." That goes for 25. Questions 26 and 27 can be answered by whomever you purchase the frequency and modulation monitor from. Whoever builds your antenna can help you with 28. t have virtually answered 29. Your civil engineering department and bureau of business research can combine forces on 30 and 31, and you can do the rest. On page 20, the line under the date must be the name of your institution. Your president, as executive officer, should sign on the line after "by". Indicate in answer 34 that your station will be completed within six months (keep your fingers crossed). When you submit the application for the construction permit (Rom 340) be an optimist and request three copies of the Application for License Rorm. You'll need this when your station is about ready to go on the air. Before that time you'll also want to purchase from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, at the cost of 10 cents each, copies of parts 2, 3 and 4 of the rules of the Commission, to avoid transgressing the RCC mandates. After submitting your construction permit application, some time may elapse before you get your grant, if it is in proper form, it will come through eventually. As soon as it does, write to the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Washington, for copies of their Rorm ACA 117, You should file this at once so you can be promptly informed as to how your antenna tower must be lighted and painted if its height requires that, PROGRAMMING- PLANS You will be very wise if you start operations of your RM station with a modest schedule-one that you can maintain after the novelty for your talent has worn off. Here are some ideas for programs, other than those you locally produce, that you can obtain without charge; Transcriptions-—-Adventures in Science---supplied weekly by Westinghouse Transcriptions—American Medical Association Transcriptions-"This is Puerto Rico" from the U.S. Office of Education Transcriptions—-"Alcoholics Anonymous" from WJR, Detroit Transcriptions-—Army enlistment office-features movie stars Transcriptions—-"The Treasury Salute"—U, S, Treasury Department Transcriptions-Virtually all college AM stations have literally hundreds of transcriptions they will be glad to lend. Rebroadcasts—Most AM radio stations willingly give permission to non¬ commercial EM stations to rebroadcast all of their non-network, sustaining programs. Write for such permission to all AM stations within good hearing of the projected RM station. Copies of the letters of permission must be filed with the RCC. Rebroadcasts-—t"Write to the British Broadcasting Company in New York for similar permission to rebroadcast the BBC overseas service. You'll need a good short-wave receiver to handle these programs. (Reproduced by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters from COLLEGE PUBLIC RELATIONS by permission of the editor and author),