Carl Blare

transmissionproject.org

has a possibly fitting mission:

“Nationally supporting organizations such as low power radio, community media and arts centers, rural broadband initiatives, etc.”

transmissionproject.org

has a possibly fitting mission:

“Nationally supporting organizations such as low power radio, community media and arts centers, rural broadband initiatives, etc.”

We learned of this from a free weekly radio program that can be added to the “Free Audio Sources” thread:

The program: Media Minutes

The source: freepress.net

The “Media Geek” radio show hosted by Paul Riismandel from WNUR-FM in Evanston, IL, just reported a few items from the newly re-furbished FCC. They apparently plan to open a web page inviting public input on future ideas, and they are considering expanding the FM band to include the vacated analog TV channels 5 & 6, which are directly below the existing FM band. As part15.us has already discussed, 87.7 (TV 6 audio) is already usable on most receivers.

Normal part15ers listen to their own stations, and when programming comes in from podcasts and networks it can get quite interesting. Last night, listening to KDX 1680, the program was “Agenda 21” from “Rule of Law Radio Network” in Austin, Texas (which I’ve blogged about before) and the subject turned to Part 15 low power radio! For one thing, The Rule Network has very smartly expanded itself through a growing affiliates list of part 15 stations all across the Nation. “Agenda 21” comes from Scottsboro, Alabama and just purchased a part 15 transmitter which they said was in a corner of the room waiting to be hooked up. Their caller was from Liberty 1640 in Sioux Falls, perhaps one of the most ambitious part 15 enterprises of all, with (I think they said) 15 transmitters all over town with more to come. The caller said that Keith Hamilton the inventor of the Hamilton Rangemaster was working on a GPS device to synchronize multiple transmitters and I hope I’m breaking the story first here at part15.us.

Gotta go now, something good on the radio.

Not long ago I bemoaned the apparent absence of female members here on the part15.us

Now I see womanly names adding themselves to the “new members” list. How?

What a pleasant picture has appeared under the caption WELCOME TO PART15.US! The site needed a female touch, and the smile is universal in its friendliness. I assume this is the part 15 studio operated by scwis, the boss at Part 15.us. Not only does he have a likable announcer, look at the microphone and mixer! In a way it’s not fair to the rest of us who have our little Radio Shack parts from e-bay, but at the same time we need a good role model!

Too lazy to convert from unbalanced to balanced audio at the computer output, drill a hole in the floor, run a wire down in the basement 20′ to the kitchen, drill up into the room, convert back to unbalanced audio and feed the SSTran at 1550 KHz, I instead used an STL (Studio Transmitter Link) from the computer to a kitchen FM receiver to the SS Tran.

Based on previous trials, I realized the FM antenna had to be flat against the wall to reduce standing wave multipath on at least one plane, so I hooked a small paperclip around the top nub of the telescopic antenna of our C.Crane FM transmitter, hooked the paper clip to a large sized paper clip that connects our wall calendar to a sock hanging hook salvaged from the retail store which hangs from a nail in the wall, and set the dangling FM xmtr for 88.5.
Out in the kitchen the Panasonic rack-mountable Technique Tuner receives a solid signal which feeds the SS Tran at 1550 KHz and the rest is history.