Another thing that is driving at my heels is a corporate business deadline coming up in a few days. I keep avoiding it because working with the new AMT5000 is much more fun, and I am pursuing happiness like I thought it was a true liberty.
But the pursuit of happiness isn’t in the Constitution. It’s only in the Declaration of Independence, which is a letter to the Kingdom of England declaring war. It’s not even addressed to us.
It’s very likely I’ll order a second AMT5000 because it is wonderful having the control over the signal it provides. Tonight I’ve reduced power at 1550 kHz to 50 mW during a program with indelicate language. Nobody can complain if they can’t get it, but I can still receive it.
The FCC language rule allowing indecent words after 10 PM but totally banning obscenity is beyond my comprehension. When I hear the more ribald personalities utter vile words, I have no clue whether the words are indecent or obscene. The notion of “community standards” is so stupid I shouldn’t have to explain why. If you call a community meeting the resultant mob will bend overboard trying to appear much holier than they really are and find the word “darn” to be offensive because it’s a stand-in for a worse word. But listen to them at a hockey game.
I feel much better now that I’ve brought my grudges to the Part 15 community. It’s one community you can trust.
Part 15.209
The most cited rule on this website is Part 15.219, with the physical limits of 100 mW to the final with a 3-meter antenna.
Far less quoted is 15.209 which bases itself on a distance field measurement for the AM band, 24,000-microVolts divided by the actual frequency in kHz with the reading taken at a distance from the antenna of 30-meters.
It is inobvious how these two standards compare with each other, but I reason that in the case of my setup for 1550 kHz, using an inefficient antenna located in a poor location, that I could safely exceed the power rule and still be within 15.209.
In this same argument I am not envisioning an antenna greater than 3-meters.
To all concerned parties: please know this is a theoretical conversation only. Not a confession.
We are living in a time of peculiar informants who enhance their own self worth by pointing fingers. Fingers aren’t bad with good bar-b-q sauce.
Off Course and Back On Course
The psychologist Carl Jung made claim to the unconscious mind, and the ultimate product of his unusual studies produced his “Red Book,” which only recently has been posthumously published.
Jung believed the unconscious mind to be very powerful in solving deep problems that eluded the conscious mind.
With this in mind, my unconscious has just produced what seems like perhaps a “duh” moment…
Indoor antennas.
It seems to me, now that I have had this inspiration from the depths, that neither vertical nor horizontal antennas make sense indoors. This is because walls and ceiling/floors are all perfectly horizontal/vertical.
Indoor antennas need to be angled so that their reflections are not concentrated in one intense frequency clump, as would be true with vertical-to-vertical or horizontal-to-horizontal.
According to my minutes-old-theory, the rules are different inside our rectangular buildings than outside in the open world. Angles are the solution to indoor antennas.
In Through The Out Door…
The term your looking for is “C-POL”, or circular polarization.
RFB