rock95seven

I have been Busy in Busy Ky lately.

Busy with what you may ask? Well everything actually. Besides keep the roads hot with numerous errands in town, house repairs, dealing with a messed up neck and shoulder, i have been working on building the AM counterpart of 102.7 Busy FM.

My plan is to house the Talking House 5.0 inside of a 5 Gallon bucket from Lowes, mounting a piece of pipe (conduit) to the bucket and elevating the whole thing 10 feet off of the ground.
The pipe will either be loaded up as the antenna or will provide a way to extend the wire antenna provided with the transmitter. Not sure yet.

The STL will be a radio tuned to 102.7 FM feeding audio to the Talking House transmitter.
The FM transmitter is a Whole House 2.0 set to mono and has range of roughly 300 – 400 feet despite the fact that the signal travels through some metal and other housing materials.

The distance between the location for the AM transmitter and the studio where the FM transmitter is located is roughly 20 feet so there shouldn’t be any problem receiving a clear signal outside.

So in a nut shell or in this case, a 5 gallon plastic bucket that is what i am up to lately.

 

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Let me know if the pictures do not display properly and i will try a different approach.

 

What’s going on with the sexually oriented adverts etc?
deliaeldershawugw

So i have been using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Linux) and would like to use that machine for running 
automation for 102.7 Busy FM. Only trouble is it installs using WINE but i am unable to insert audio files from the library. Instert tracks won’t work at all. 

Has anyone else here had any success running Zararadio 1.4 on any Linux Distro? 

I have attached a screenshot of the error i received. 

I wanted to announce the new url for our website at http;//busyradio.weebly.com

There are some flood photos in the photogallery as well as some other semi-interesting things.

Barry Sallade
102.7 Busy FM

So aside from being one of “the good, the bad and the ugly” radio bands ever cranked out by the FCC why doesn’t CB Radio get any recognition as a Part 15 service?

Sure it’s full of trouble makers, sound effects and foul language but there is a good side to this radio service. Some people including myself have managed to use this 2-way communication service for it’s intended use.

It is a great hobby if you can manage to steer clear of the negative side of things.
I recently got back into cb radio after installing my stock Cobra 19 into our Jeep Grand Cherokee for use on the highways and interstate as well as when we are off roading in 4WD in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky.

But i didn’t stop there, my wonderful wife bought a stock Cobra 2000 GTL on Ebay for me the other day as a gift for well, i am not really sure..i must have done something right lol

So probably tomorrow that will be here via FedEx and will take it’s rightful place on my desk right next to the computer monitor. I said stock for a reason. For nearly 18 years i had been in the hobby but with modified radio’s and probably maybe a linear or two.

I took a long 6 year break from the hobby.

CB Radio is already so noisy now i see no reason to add more to the band by adding a poorly filtered amplifier to the mix. This time i will not be tempting fate or the fcc visit and keep both the mobile radio and base station stock. Meaning 4 watts and no more than that.

My preferred mode of communications is SSB or single side band with the fcc approved 12 watts PEP (peak envelope power) and i plan on using a dipole antenna at ground level in the inverted v configuration. I am amazed that we found a CB Base station of this vintage that hasn’t been hacked into or modified in anway. It is all original and must have been taken care of because i have never seen a Cobra or any other cb radio in such great shape.

So really, why does cb radio get such a bad rap? I think it is like am or fm, it all depends on how you use it or abuse.

What are your thoughts?

 

 

I found this on Progressive-Concepts.com