Allen Hartle
Orcas Island Test Site
Mt. Constitution 2400' AMSL
Public Transportation System
Allen Hartle is an award winning, serial entrepreneur who has pioneered FM radio metadata technology enabling Artist & Title in car radios & consumer products for 30+ years. His groundbreaking products have served thousands of radio stations & millions of radio listeners worldwide.
Orcas Island, of the Pacific Northwest's San Juan Islands, is the home of Allen's "Metadata Laboratory". A hub for a global community of colleagues, friends and family who have contributed to the many product development efforts over the years. Allen, his wife Liberte plus an assortment of forest creatures live on Mt. Constitution, overlooking Eastsound, WA and British Columbia in the distance.
Yes, his home is essentially, an FM radio transmitter site.​
He recently created a Non Profit organization (StayAlert) dedicated to providing emergency alerts to his home community.
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And received FCC approval for an LPFM station, where he will be creating and testing a new collection of RDS/RDS2 tools.
You can contact Allen at: allen@stayalert.org
