Carrier Current FM Transmitter Dead After 3 Years
well my CCFM transmitter of 3 years finally decided to call it quits on me and died.
Carrier Current FM Transmitter Dead After 3 Years
well my CCFM transmitter of 3 years finally decided to call it quits on me and died.
it died on june 6 @ approx. 7:30 during severe weather coverage for grayson county and made me a bit pissed that it died during severe weather, after i was done talking i played a song the music got louder and louder then no audio and the carrier cutted off the air and died.
i found the exact transmitter i use its a newer model and hopefully i get it buy it now or win the bid. either way we should be back on the air soon.
for the folks in West Sherman listening in when that happened i apologise.
To Your Return
The new transmitter will be a new adventure, it will be interesting to hear about your return to the air.
And this incident reminds me that I want to mess with CC FM. If I could just get my Ramsey 25B back from the woman who borrowed it. She is a practicing witch, which I found out later, and might serve a potion if I encounter her.
The middle ages seem like yesterday.
To Carl Blare
i feel bad for you since some woman borrowed it and she’s a witch i’m just glad that didn’t happen in zero gravity (in space)or high in the air, let me explain, do you remember that woman astronaut that was on the news who completely lost it in space and acting physco evil and that pilot who lost it and interfered with the flight and now sceientist are trying to study the effects of skitsopherania ptsd pms (for women) and some other conditions in space and people in the air (on planes)on both men and women. and i’m glad for you it wasn’t in space becuase at zero gravity the physco witch can flyyyyyyyyyy hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so things will be better for the both of us sooner or later.
it will
How Lucky to be On the Ground
That’s very funny about the risk of altitude with goofy women. Except her house is higher up on a hill and she’s on the top floor, but I stay down here.
I want to know more about your car to wall adapter that couples your FM.
When it’s used in a car, does it plug into the cigarette lighter?
Which end goes to the antenna output and which end goes to the AC power line?
no antenna out it uses back end of it to couple in
yes it plugs in the cigarette lighter.
for the antenna it uses an internal antenna inside the transmitter and connects to the tip of it that touches the cigarette lighter and that acts as the antenna and the same goes inside and couples in with the car to ac wall adapter and and hooks to the wall send the signal to my house-grid and out on the powerlines.
in other words of explaining it. the transmitter has an internal antenna and when to install it inside the house, the radio shack car to ac wall adapter and when that plugs in the wall and sends the signal out. its like making an external jeririgged antenna but different.
FM CC Coupler Clarity
Ahh I see. Yes I recall that particular transmitter that does indeed send the signal down the lighter plug tip and when inserted into the cigarette lighter socket, sends the signal on the wiring inside the vehicle. But for your case using an AC to DC wall adapter to power the TX with the necessary 12 volts, the coupled signal is passing through the internal guts of the AC to DC converter and coupling it to the AC mains.
You should be able to use another TX and modify it to have the same DC isolated coupling for the RF output, and use the same cigarette lighter plugs and socket and inverter.
Thanks for the description! 🙂
RFB
Your Welcome RFB!
Your Welcome RFB!
Coupler
Maybe in the interim you could show us all a diagram of your FM CC coupler, or link us to it and/or description/diagram/schematic.
RFB
To RFB
to be quiet honest with you i don’t use a coupler (at all) i have an car to ac wall adapter made by radio shack (not sure which model it is) which acts as the coupler and couples the transmitter into the wall and sends the signal around my house-grid and makes it out on the powerlines and it goes (on a good day) 1/4 to a 1/2 of a mile, and in the night-time it can go from 1/4 to 1.32 miles in the night-time.
Very Interesting
That’s amazing! How did you ever think of trying such a thing?
Re: Very Interesting; i just tried it out of the blue
i just tried it out of the blue (hmm instead of this try that) and that was it. that was one day back in late September of ’07 just days before i officially signed on the air on October 13, 2007
Bought It!
well i bought the new carrier current transmitter for $12.47 on ebay, and should be here at the studios in a few days.
when it comes, im going to tune it and go on the air (in test mode) and when were in test mode we play a soft rock stream and announce that we are in test mode, after 1-3 days we should be back on regular programming schedule.
Back On The Air!!!!!!!!!!
well at 2pm on July 3rd it came in and we got back on the air (In Test Mode) and for 3 days we played only soft rock music and as of 6AM Today July 6, 2012 we are back in Normal Broadcast Operations.