Hi I'm new to your community. I was talking to an Admin for this community and he was informative and suggested to post on here. I am working on building a portable FM Transmitter setup. I was chatting with the guy that had built the FM Transmitter that I would like to use and improved it some. Any information about experience with Portable Radio Stations would be helpful.
Thanks
Good Morning. When you say portable are you refering to maybe something one might use at a outdoor presentation or maybe mobile in a vehicle? Either way it should be fairly simple.
More and more stories in the news about private individuals using radio controlled drone aircraft to hover and explore aerial space to obtain amazing camera shots of scenes you could never get on foot.
This flight technology could be adapted to suspend a portable radio station hovering over the audience space and could remain airborn based on the life of the batteries.
Radio drones could be used to transmit to a crowd situation during a modern day protest, neighborhood area or any desired location.
Maybe you could tell us more about
this portable set-up.
And Carl, you are STILL a genius.
BUT drones don't stay up that long.
The fairly new and inexpensive
"flying things" are a lot of fun. Take it
from me. I crashed a couple of radio
controlled helicopters. And sometimes they
go up so high you can't see them anymore.
Bruce
Bruce MICRO1700 said:
"And Carl, you are STILL a genius."
That means Bruce expects the genius to wear off any day now, but it's STILL happening.
Who thought it would last this long.
Knowing that radio controlled air toys have only a short battery life and are prone to crashing, we've got to keep our portable broadcasts short.
There are several options that come to mind. Probably the simplest is to use one of the transmitters designed for linking an audio source such as an iPod to a car radio. These are not too expensive and are powered from 12 volts. Don't expect much for range and audio quality though.
Depending on just what you want to do another choice would be kit such as the Ramsey FM 25B. I use the older version, the FM25A, for broadcasting around my house and it works well. It runs on 12 volts and with a suitable 12v power source it could be portable.
Neil
Actually a guy at make made a super simple FM transmitter and I was going and a female Jack and to add a headset, hook it an MP3 and antenna to make a portable FM transmitter that I can use anywhere.
Hello RickE76, when you go places with your portable FM transmitter who will be listening and what will you program on your station?
Don't know yet Carl, just starting out. I plan on doing a web hosting server at my home to studio for direct stream of my shows.
local news updates may be one program because there isn't one in the area. But I need to do one step at a time. Equipment costs money so until I acquirer what I need, equipment is my priority right now.
Actually there's a company in New Mexico that makes Solar Powered drones that can Stay up like 5 years. Could probably make a QuadCopter that could stay up for awhile. Or there's a company, CubeSat I think and starting at like $40,000 you can launch your own PicoSatellite.
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-buys-solar-powered-drone-company-titan-aerospace/