well my adventures in part 15 radio, and my legendary part 15 station KDSX-The Radiator and myself in the low power part 15 industry, is coming back soon, with a big bang version 2.0! its about time i have made a comeback.
see you soon…
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by ABMedia1
well my adventures in part 15 radio, and my legendary part 15 station KDSX-The Radiator and myself in the low power part 15 industry, is coming back soon, with a big bang version 2.0! its about time i have made a comeback.
see you soon…
by SignalGuy
Well, I’ve not had much chance to participate here, nor, over at the Initiative recently, and, for that I
apologize! Much going on in my life.
The good news is that my Part 15 ops have proceeded smoothly, if mostly on “autopilot”. I am just short of
1000 pieces of royalty free classical music, running on a shuffled loop, from a spare smartphone for the time
being. I’ve lined up resources for an additional expansion, and, await only spare time to proceed.
The Sainsonic continues to transmit into a 50 ohm dummy load resistor, to witch a delibrately non resonant feedline and antenna is wired in parallel. Using a typical not-to-sensitive consumer receiver, I have my 200
foot radius as described by the FCC.
I’ve read something about a Linux program that I could use to gain more features and functions that a “real” radio station would have, but, replacing the smartphone with a full computer would increase station power consumption by abnout 70 watts. Affordable, but, not “green”. I’d much rather have a smartphone app that gave me even a limited subset of features: mainly: station I.D., Emergency alerts, and, time signals. Maybe time for me to learn to program, and make one for the community!
Hope you are all well, Enjoy the classics, while visiting the train station / commercial area of Telford, Pa, on 106.5 FM! (Until the translators arrive, then look 1700 KHz AM, or, possible “initiative” freqs.) 73. DE MUSOPEN / SIGNALGUY.
by rock95seven
I am off to a slow start with obtaining an experiemental license, there is equipment to find, parts list’s, rules to review and of course cool weather is upon us now. School has been in full swing here in the mountains too, i have two girls in elementery and one in middle school.
This will be their last year in the old school which is a couple miles from home, the new school is closer to Hazard,Ky which means any school functions or conferences will require a battle with traffic, my wife and i are not looking forward to that.
It’s all part of the gooberments plan to consolidate the school districts, one school will cover more grades, with less buildings to deal with.
Plan Of Attack
My plan of attack is to approach this project as if i was building a high powered station complete with equipment list’s, antenna plans, frequencies to be used, power to be used and the area in the yard where all of this should take place.
Also, my progress during this project will be shared here on this blog.
One thing for sure, the weather sure has been great, not too hot and not too cold with a few showers here and there.
But, that won’t last, Autum is short giving away to Winter which can be unpredictable at times, even the weather guy can miss some details and we get a snow storm bigger than the blizzard of ’77.
With that being said, my project might be put on hold depending on the weather in E. Ky, the Farmers Almanac say’s the first part of Winter for my portion of Kentucky could start out mild then erupt into a full on ice age….ok not that extreme lol
So that’s it, my plans so far.
Barry of BBR World Wide.
by rock95seven
Do these templates make my butt look big??
Or maybe I should have asked, which look do you like better?
The current template, which is simple and also randomly disordered?
The simple but kind of elegant blue template?
The rather flashy and graphic heavy template?
My opinion? I like the simple blue and nearly elegant template the most, so far it’s nice and orderly while not being to basic or too flashy like the other two templates. What say you?
Barry of Blue Bucket Radio 1620
by rock95seven
While i sort out some problems with my station, i thought it would be cool to stream a random frequency from the Grundig G3 Shortwave receiver. Right now it is tuned to 13.570 Mhz, one of the many Part 15 frequencies we have been given for tinkering, broadcasting and experimening.
I am not using a long wire antenna, just the whip built onto the radio.
Ain’t radio fun?