User talk:MrBruce1959

WXTZ 87.9 Norwich
Please note, I have removed your additions to WXTZ 87.9 Norwich for a number of reasons:-
 * Firstly, we have no idea who you really are, but that is not really relevant, we only use verifiable information from independant, reliable, sources - "call me" fails all of these criteria.
 * Secondly, we never include peoples phone numbers or other contact details - even in talk pages, let alone in articles - it invites vast amounts of spam/nuisance calls
 * Thirdly, you are making an unsourced accusation
 * Fourthly, encyclopedias never address the reader or "break the fourth wall"

You state "The owner and operator of this station is Bruce Edmond Fontaine"

If so, there must be some public register, presumably available on-line, which you can quote, so this can be verified in an independant, reliable source. Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 07:58, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hello I am not sure if this is the way to respond to those who edited my edits to the WXTZ 87.9 Norwich Wikipedia page. I edited the name of Bruce Lafontaine to Bruce Fontaine because that name is the correct name, that name is my name and that page is about my former part 15 radio station WXTZ 87.9 Norwich.

If this is the proper channels to talk to the editors please let me know, so I can continue with my request for further edits to the page. I also need to discuss the issues with sourcing reliable material as some articles are available on the web, but linking to them keeps being an issue with Wikipedia terms. Please let me know is this is the proper way to communicate with those of you who have issues with my editing that page with the correct information.

Bruce Fontaine MrBruce1959 (talk) 13:33, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of WXTZ 87.9 Norwich


The article WXTZ 87.9 Norwich has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Defunct Part 15 station that does not meet the requirements for WP:BROADCAST. Article is devoid of sources that support any of the content related to the station itself. The only mention of the station that I could find in a reliable source is an incidental passing mention that does nothing to establish notability."

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Hello, before the deletion of this article takes place, is it possible to just edit out the whole history, since I can not sight any sources because the person who accused WXTZ 87.9 Norwich of being an illegal FM broadcast pirate is very sue happy about his name or his forum board being named in anything that goes against his actions. This is why it is difficult to source any sources. His forum board is set up as private and he has very strict policies about what is shared from his site to begin with.

This article was originally written as nothing more than a radio station operated as a legal FCC part 15 FM entertainment venue. It had significance, because it was an attempt to do radio broadcasting in a different way, where it was done as a legal part 15 radio station, where most broadcast stations were part 73 full powered licensed stations. Part 15 is a great hobby that most venture into where obtaining an FCC broadcast license is difficult to get.

I can re-edit the entire post as an disambiguation article or even just make a short post saying it was a part 15 radio out of Norwich Connecticut, which is now defuncted and keep it short not having to rely on much sourcing reliable sources.

If there is no possible way to edit this without having to source Bill DeFelice or his Hobbybroadcaster.net forum board, then I will voluntarily just delete the whole article. Please let me know what can be done here before I make that final decision to delete the article.

Thanks Bruce Fontaine (MrBruce1959 (talk) 02:05, 10 March 2019 (UTC))
 * I wanted to comment to make you aware of a few things about Part 15. Quite simply, Hobby Broadcaster is correct about the 87.9 operation being a pirate, as 47CFR15.239a states that for a Part 15 station, the whole 200 kHz of the station's bandwidth must be between 88-108 MHz, & as this station operated on 87.9 MHz, (which is outside of 88-108 MHz), it is operating illegally. When it was on 107.1, and if the transmitter was indeed Part 15, it would have been a Part 15 station.

Now, I have renominated the page for deletion because there is no inherent notability (the statement that it was Connecticut's first Part 15 FM station is false, as any car modulator *should be* at Part 15 levels, also any home broadcast station, etc.), it is not written from a neutral point of view, it really doesn't have any independent sources to verify any of the claims. WXTZ, while may be set up at the time like Radio Sausalito, never achieved the level of notoriety, nor stayed in existence long enough to achieve that. Therefore, it was a little more than a home station.

I agree about Part 15 being fun & a great resource.Stereorock (talk) 11:38, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your input. The station did start off as a one transmitter station on 107.1 MHz FM using an FCC certified Decade brand MS-100 part 15 transmitter. Although at the time, there was no clear understanding by the station that 87.9 MHz was illegal to use for part 15 operations, although there was 2 FCC licensed stations on 87.9 at the time. In past edits I have made, attempted to address that misunderstanding, as best as I could explain it. However, the edits I did, were reverted back to original text because of other information I included, was not accepted and the edits were removed and the wiki reverted back to original text. The radio station was originally on 107.1 MHz FM as a multi-transmitter radio station, while unlike other part 15 devices, that use low level RF radiation signals, this setup allowed a legal part 15 operation to serve many listeners who lived within large multi-family, multi-level apartment buildings. This allowed more than one person/family the ability to receive the signal, even at legal FCC part 15 limits, because it was situated in the right type of building structures, which is what this particular type of setup, different from what is normally done in part 15 operation. Using multiple transmitters, linked to the studio via the Internet, was similar to what networked radio and televisions do, to provide an out of area source to the local area, like how NBC, CBS, ABC, etcetera, provide each market with network programming, the station, although local to the area, used the same principal to serve a larger footprint. That is what makes this particular part 15 venture different than the usual part 15 service. The station, went defuncted, because of the threats that Bill DeFelice imposed against those operators. No FCC intervention took place, no NOUO's or FCC visits took place, but the transmitters owners, chose not to continue the operation of their transmitters, even if the station was to move back between 88.1 through 107.9 MHz. Hopefully, this explains things a bit better, obviously, I am vague on a few issues, as I lack some of the behind the scenes activity. This article can be re-written as a part 15 venture, with good intentions, that choose the wrong FM channel to move to. It has potential, if edited a bit to reflect it as a venture, often done as an FCC licensed station but under part 15 rules. By the way, at the time WXTZ operated, there was no licensed stations using the calls WXTZ. The station WXTZ-LP in North Carolina did not exist at the time the station in Norwich CT operated. The station, also never claimed to be an FCC licensed station, nor stated it owned the rights to the calls WXTZ as a stand alone call. It's station was called "WXTZ 107.1 Norwich" and then "WXTZ 87.9 Norwich" as its official station I.D. The FCC states, you can call your part 15 station anything you want to as long as you do not claim to be a licensed station, which isn't FCC licensed. MrBruce1959 (talk) 04:07, 17 March 2019 (UTC) Bruce Fontaine
 * Just to be clear, radio stations are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist — qualifying for an article on here is a matter of satisfying certain specific conditions, the most important of which is that the content is referenced to reliable sources. A radio station that doesn't satisfy that condition isn't entitled to still have an article on here anyway just because it wants one — the presence or absence of media coverage, in published books and magazines and newspapers, is what tells us whether a radio station is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article or not. And user-generated discussion forums aren't reliable sources, either, so even if you did cite this "Hobbybroadcaster.net", that still wouldn't make a difference anyway. It's not your prerogative to decide whether your station gets a Wikipedia article or not — if there are no reliable sources that can be shown to support the information at all, then our rules override your own wishes. Bearcat (talk) 12:36, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of WXTZ 87.9 Norwich for deletion
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Proposed deletion of WXTZ 87.9 Norwich


The article WXTZ 87.9 Norwich has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Station has no independent sources, no notability (it does not meet WP:BROADCAST's standard), reeks of WP:OR."

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Stereorock (talk) 11:04, 15 March 2019 (UTC)