Re: [sudo-discuss] there are no LPFM slots on the FM band in the bay area, period.

it takes a long time and a lot of work and listeners before you even get the ten-day warning, let alone an unenforcable fine. Don't forget that Berkeley Liberation Radio has been broadcasting for almost ten years now, interrupted more often by their own failures than by two FCC raids where the FCC basically snatched their equipment and fled like cowards. No one at BLR has ever been successfully "fined", and even the NAL (Notice of Apparent Liability) filed against Stephen Dunifer of FRB before them has just sat uncollected, like almost all NALs against pirates, for twenty years now. Stephen's very public response to the Notice of Apparent Liability was "Apparently not." The FCC's fine enforcement mechanism is to threaten to revoke your stations lisence. This works when they fine lisenced broadcasters for the seven deadly words or whatever, but filed against an unlisenced person it's a joke. Witness the fine against Daniel Robert of Pirate Cat Radio, which is an example of a person who put his full name all over everything and even corresponded with the FCC in the mail, making it personal. They haven't even collected anything from him. here's the story of pirate cat's fine: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/fcc-fines-monkey-man-radio-pirat… The point is, if sudoroom decides as a group to broadcast a signal from the roof or wherever (we can stream over the internet you know) then sudoroom can decide for itself whether it wants to keep going after getting a "ten day notice to cease broadcasting" If that EVER happens. http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-264276A1.html and if a broadcast is not coming from the building where sudoroom is, then it is not even a matter for sudoroom to have to decide on. Sudoroom can continue to have an internet streaming radio station and leave it at that.