Carl Blare

It was back in the 1980s one day I was talking to a guy on the phone and he said he was talking from his car on a highway. This was before cell phones were popular. He claimed he was using a wireless phone with the base unit back at his house with “an added length of antenna” and he said he bought it at Walmart.

I went and bought the same phone and it was a very ordinary type of wireless phone at the time, I never tried calling anybody from the car.

There was a base unit that plugged into the landline and a handset with a whip antenna on top. Half the call went up around 46mHz, the other half was down above the AM band, maybe in the 1600s (probably before the x-band).

It was kind of convenient when I wanted to walk away from the desk or outdoors, but that unit died and now it’s 2012.

What is the current state of the art of similar wireless phones? I assume they are digital now, if they exist at all. I’m bringing it up here before I go browsing to see what’s out there.

These type phones are likely Part 15 devices.

This morning KDX signed on at 9 AM right on schedule. But 15-minutes later it was 10:15. Huh?

I looked at the fine print on the calendar and it said “Daylight Time Begins.”

This morning KDX signed on at 9 AM right on schedule. But 15-minutes later it was 10:15. Huh?

I looked at the fine print on the calendar and it said “Daylight Time Begins.”

Ya, but, I thought that came on Easter. So I had to unscramble my entire website so everything matched up.

Somebody told me the only reason for daylight time is so shoppers will have more daylight and spend more money.

Two years ago I resisted the change and stayed on standard time, but after about 2-months my confusion was too much and I surrendered.

If I’d only listened to the radio maybe I’d know something.

The Part 15 Rules as they are written are sketchy. As such, I believe the Rules therefore allow certain creative interpretation.

The Part 15 Rules as they are written are sketchy. As such, I believe the Rules therefore allow certain creative interpretation.

I believe 15.219, defining the conditions for AM broadcast, are in fact an “ideal situation sketch”, describing the circumstances at high sun during a day.

Because the FCC Rules are based in mathematical logic, we can therefore extrapolate what other meanings might be inferred based more on the poetics of living in a changing world, where night is significantly different than day.

It is my judgement, sitting upon the seat of transcendental oversight, that a Part 15 AM station is (by silent implication) allowed to boost power so as to always equal the signal coverage of that perfect mid-day model.

Next question is, what “input power to the final stage” will it take to replicate daytime performance?

It’s past midnight here in the midwaste and another edition of The Low Power Hour, No. 26, has been introduced to earth world.

It’s past midnight here in the midwaste and another edition of The Low Power Hour, No. 26, has been introduced to earth world.

Again we welcome Lester Roadhog Moran, with the audition tape that got him started and inspired KDX to start an audition program on the air known as Idle American. We met up with two fellows, one of them actually a fellowess, from another streaming station while shopping a carrier current part at a hardware store. Flash Frisbone new episode, and a call from the audience. More on Flotilla’s voice.

http://www.kdxradio.com/demand.html

http://www.kdxradio.com/lph.html

On my website I have a Demand Radio page with little Flash Player Buttons that play particular radio programs simply by pressing play. The radio programs are recorded in mp3 format with bit-rate 56kbps.

Today a listener reported trouble hearing a constant stream from that page, and it entered my mind that perhaps slower computers cannot sustain the 56kbps bit-rate….. my old computer certainly wouldn’t do it…..

To experiment with this idea, I will change all the programs on that page tp 24-kbps and ask the listener to “try it now.”

It will be about two days.

Comments are welcome.

I love radio and TV towers, as do probably you too, and I started wondering about the ground aspect of a tall tower.

I love radio and TV towers, as do probably you too, and I started wondering about the ground aspect of a tall tower.

I am not talking about transmitter radial grounding, I mean the foundational base required below a tower to keep it standing stable and firm.

The weight of the tower, all downward to one point of earth, plus the downward pull of the heavy guy cables, no doubt places huge stress on the earth beneath a tower. If there were a cavity in the earth the tower could puncture right through like a spear thrown by an Olympic giant from 700 B.C.

So, then, therefore, what is down there, at the foot of a tall tower, to keep it soundly in place?