[grc] Danish Innovation in Antenna Placement Kickstarts Community Radio

[pete tridish]

New Invention Allows Radio Stations to Bury Antennas in Deep Holes 
Rather Than Erect Steel Towers

Hundreds of new low power operators to benefit from cost savings from 
new Danish technology

April 1, 2015 Copenhagen:  Ownership of a radio station has 
traditionally been limited to those who could afford to construct 
immense steel towers, but Loof Lirpa, an engineer from Radio Gnisten in 
Copenhagen, has devised a new low-cost method of sending the music 
channel to the city.  His new company, SpejlVikle, markets a device that 
can transform radio waves so they can travel through the earth in the 
same manner that they once traveled above ground.

Though Danish regulators recently opened up opportunities for small 
scale community broadcasters to receive licenses, the cost of 
construction has frequently meant that even those who have received 
government permission have not been able to get on the air. Existing 
towers frequently charge hundreds to thousands of Krones for rental of a 
spot on their towers.

"Ever since Marconi, radio engineers have unimaginatively thought of the 
earth as a barrier, and the air as a transmission medium," said Lirpa in 
an interview on Wednesday.  "It took a bit of complicated math, but 
using quantum transposition, our device has reversed this dynamic and 
antennas can radiate freely up to the surface at a similar phase and 
beam tilt to their analogues above ground".

Stymied in their attempt to get zoning permission to erect a tower in 
their neighborhood of Vesterbro, Lirpa borrowed an earth-boring machine 
to dig a core sample in the backyard of their studio to the same depth 
as the proposed 30 meter tower.

A collinear-stacked array coated with non-conductive grease was then 
lowered down the hole by its coaxial cable, and the hole was refilled 
with loosely packed sand to establish a non-conductive path between the 
antenna and the surrounding soil. Polarity of the output feed from the 
transmitter was quantum- inverted in a fifty centimeter chassis before 
being delivered to the coaxial cable.

Upon turning on the transmitter, it was discovered that the coverage was 
exactly equal to the predicted coverage of an antenna mounted upon a 
thirty meter tower. Danish regulators have evaluated the results and are 
satisfied that this arrangement meets the standards of Danish 
telecommunications law. "Given the quantum mirroring effect of the 
burial of this antenna, we shall permit radio operators to establish 
their facilities in this manner," said Anna Tennekegaard, Chief 
Government Technologist at the Danske Erhvervsstyrelsen, 
Telekommunikation Filial.  "However, we shall be vigilant to insure that 
no stations are burying their antennas deeper than their licensed Height 
Above Average Terrain would have allowed, in the interest of preventing 
greater than predicted coverage and potential interference with other 
services."

Noah Vale, of Acme Antenna Service based in Topeka Kansas, has promised 
an investigation into the feasibility of this cost-saving technology for 
use in the US. "Questions of isomorphic quantum entanglement are 
definitely above my pay grade. But I certainly know how to dig a hole 
and drop an antenna down it. Hell, why not?"


In case building your radio station using the SpejlVikle technology does 
not work out for you, get in touch with pete tridish at international 
media action (imarad.io) for a somewhat less innovative, but assuredly 
more dependable approach. We can't compete with burying your antenna, 
but we'll do our best to make radio station construction affordable for 
your non-profit group. petri at imarad.io