Carl Blare

After many months on this forum I detect that part 15 members share the conventional broadcast practice of keeping the language decent, and I share this preference after many years in radio following the standard practice of wholesome speech.

But the programs that come in the form of podcasts sometimes include grungy words, as the internet seems to have opened the door on “anything goes.”

When such language slips through and gets sent on AM I cringe because what if that was the exact moment someone nearby chanced upon the station.

Tonight I tried a roundabout band-aid solution during a show that is otherwise very good except for blunt words once in awhile. I turned off my main frequency and switched to a second frequency, knowing no one would be monitoring an inactive channel.

Have you had experiences with this problem?

In his engineering blog Paul Thurst has the story

http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/

His comments are very interesting.

Moments ago I finished typing a somewhat detailed blog entry titled “More Cage-Monopole” which described a new stage of ongoing tests with a four-element cage monopole antenna.

Moments ago I finished typing a somewhat detailed blog entry titled “More Cage-Monopole” which described a new stage of ongoing tests with a four-element cage monopole antenna.

Once it was all written I put the cursor on a word I wished to change, I think I hit “Backspace,” but the entire blog entry vanished. That caused me to lose the spirit and give up until some other time.

Is there a keyboard trick to bring back deleted text? I hit “U,” for “Un-Do,” but that simply typed a U.

The present experimental antenna mounted on an indoor bamboo tower is a 4-element cage monopole at 107.1 FM. The antenna output from a Wholehouse 2.0 connects to four wires that are hung vertically, each wire 3″ parallel to the one next to it. This indoor antenna sends the signal about 50-feet to a Technics FM tuner which provides audio to an SStran at 1550kHz. This antenna replaces a simple 1-wire vertical antenna, which suffered from frequent multipathing as I walked around the room space and through the doorway.

What I have found so far is that the 4-element cage monopole increases the power received at the FM radio by only a small increment as seen on the S-meter, but the multipathing problem no longer exists. Therefore it seems that the cage-monopole is providing a much more stable indoor coverage, allowing human movement within the space without interference.

Now we move on to another question. What if one wire of the four was disconnected from the antenna output and connected to transmitter ground… would this create a null on one side of the radiation pattern, putting the main signal toward a particular direction with some side lobes, like a cardioid microphone pattern?

Perhaps if that works there could be any comination of patterns achieved, depending on which wires of the four were grounded… figure eight, sharply directional, for example.

Please tell your expectations based on your knowledge; experience, and I will post the results here as I go ahead with testing.

The first problem will be finding a ground point on the transmitter, which probably will be the shield side of the audio input, since there doesn’t seem to be a way of opening the Wholehouse.

In his radio blog Paul Thurst explains how shortwave is serving the public amidst the terrible hurricane which hit Australia.

http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/

Wow, what an offer. Four one-hour programs of New Orleans Style Music FREE to any stations, an offer that just arrived from “New Orleans Roots Radio.”

Wow, what an offer. Four one-hour programs of New Orleans Style Music FREE to any stations, an offer that just arrived from “New Orleans Roots Radio.”

WWOZ, 90.7 FM, 4kW with a Construction Permit for 100kW, has suggested that we PASS THE WORD about these programs.

http://www.wwoz.org/programs/wwoz+live

This should be good.