Owners of these small AMs can’t (or won’t) even get some cheap-ass import transmitter and hook it to that 1/8-wave antenna stick from the recent app to momentarily interrupt their silence.

When I say “won’t”, there is no malice in that. They simply cannot justify a dollar toward any equipment.

Do you think there is a business need for loaner transmitter and antenna equipment, just for an outgoing owner to stave off having to file a Silent STA? Or, is that considered disingenuous by the FCC?

This is all so… weird. But expected.