Oldbuckeye writes:
First of all I feel that 1 to 5 watts would be fine for legal unlicensed AM broadcasting…
Oldbuckeye writes:
First of all I feel that 1 to 5 watts would be fine for legal unlicensed AM broadcasting…
What I’m concerned about are the advocates for LPAM situation involving becoming FCC Licensed.
Then the government steps in and requires
this that and the other thing and usually it’s costly and out of the reach of the average person.
If we could just get from 1 to 5 watts that
would be fine to cover a suburb or small town or village which has no
radio service. The other thing I wanted to share with you is that I
operate a part 15 low power station and use the Talking House Transmitter
with an ATU in which a 10 foot antenna is attached.
The ATU is actually
a variable tuning coil which matches the antenna to the transmitter
frequency. The tunning box also has a ground which I connected to about
65 horrizontal copper radials buried about three to 4 inches under the
earth.
My antenna is perched on a 60 foot pole.
I get out during the day about one and a half miles strong and another
1/2 mile weak.
I get out about 1/2 mile good at night. Take care and God Bless!
Talking House ATU
by MRAM 1500 kHz
I recently landed a sweet deal on Ebay, a Talking House II in new condition for $9.95 plus shipping.
Works great! Shows almost 100 mw output on a commercial Motorola station monitor into a 50 ohm load. The frequency needs a slight tweak as it runs about 100 Hz high, not bad. The internal ATU (motor driven auto-tuner) does a good job loading into the 8 foot wire antenna that comes with the unit.
I would really like to find some info about the optional external ATU and I’d like to find a manual/schematic for both.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.