The Isotron Antenna has been proposed as a viable approach to short length Medium Wave radio transmitting antennas. Now some intrepid souls are trying home brew versions.
The Isotron Antenna has been proposed as a viable approach to short length Medium Wave radio transmitting antennas. Now some intrepid souls are trying home brew versions. Read more on the PCS-Eletronics forum, here on the Home Brew Isotron thread.
Excellent. Since our hack event, we’ve actually gotten our hit rate way up. Thanks to you Mr. Hacker 🙂 I actually thought that it would have hurt the site, but it now appears to have really helped us out – not that I want it to happen again, it was a real pain in the patoot to get everything back in good working order.
Excellent. Since our hack event, we’ve actually gotten our hit rate way up. Thanks to you Mr. Hacker 🙂 I actually thought that it would have hurt the site, but it now appears to have really helped us out – not that I want it to happen again, it was a real pain in the patoot to get everything back in good working order.
Stats since we came back online as follows:
Total Hits 63279
Total Files 31059
Total Pages 11342
Total Visits 2189
Well, as most of you know, we were hacked. I wouldn’t go so far as to glamourize it as a real hack, it was a known backdoor to the PHPnuke codebase.. so, any idiot with access to google would know about it and be able to exploit it.
Well, as most of you know, we were hacked. I wouldn’t go so far as to glamourize it as a real hack, it was a known backdoor to the PHPnuke codebase.. so, any idiot with access to google would know about it and be able to exploit it.
The word “lame” comes to mind. All it did was make me get off my lazy ass and get someone else to rebuild the site for me 🙂 That would be a fellow by the handle of “madmage”. He and I have been friends since our teen years, and he was nice enough to migrate the database to the new codeline. Heck, he even moved over the Part15 Radio Stations list (WOOHOO!).
We were able to get most everything moved over. I still need to fix the links (Radio stations by freq, etc), and the Library needs to be fixed.
Thanks: madmage for migrating to the new code.
We were able to get most everything moved over. I still need to fix the links (Radio stations by freq, etc), and the Library needs to be fixed.
Thanks: madmage for migrating to the new code. I like when people do stuff I’m too lazy to do.
Real Community Radio, a part 15 radio group, took part in the Ozark Area Communty Congress (OACC) October 7-9, 2005…
Real Community Radio, a part 15 radio group, took part in the Ozark Area Communty Congress (OACC) October 7-9, 2005…
Real Community Radio was a co-sponsor of the event.
RCR had an information table complete with maps, brochures, and CD samplers of programming. Many visited the booth during the event. In addition we had two scheduled presentations about using Part 15 for community broadcasting.
Several participants signed up as volunteers and for workshops to be offered by Real Community Radio. Several expressed interest in part 15 broadcasting and references were given to www.part15.us
Real Community Radio hopes to expand coverage to several towns in Southern Missouri. There was a great deal of interest in creating new programming by attendees. Workshops will be set up to help those interested.
This was the first participation by Real Community Radio in OACC. This was the 26th year for OACC. At any given OACC there has been and will be variously people strongly involved in, for instance, organic gardening and agriculture, appropriate technology, alternative health, communities, land trusts, ecological protection, forestry, home schooling, conservation, responsible media, sustainable businesses, biodiversity preservation, ecological restoration, culture, music, arts, eco-villages, and the list goes on indefinitely.
A picture of one of the presentations can be seen at
http://www.realcommunityradio.com/pix/oaccmeet.jpg
12vman writes I have a thought.. “Could a low powered FM xmtr (Part-15) be used to transmit audio to a Part-15 AM xmtr?”
12vman writes I have a thought.. “Could a low powered FM xmtr (Part-15) be used to transmit audio to a Part-15 AM xmtr?”
I mounted the SSTRAN and an F.M. pocket radio (mono) in a weatherproof box at the base of the antenna. I use a Velleman kit F.M. xmtr to get sound to the SSTRAN. I had the most trouble with getting the Velleman to sound good. After that, everything was fine..
I find that the A.M. doesn’t bother the F.M. at all! Actually, the highs are better than going through cables. Much cleaner! The bass response is great! Holds togather very well! The compression on the SSTRAN is touchy but once it’s set, it almost sounds as good as the F.M. direct. I could adjust the antenna better without the audio cables running up there. I got a better (higher) voltage easier without them. Everytime I connected the audio cables to the SSTRAN with the V.O.M. on the test points, the voltage would drop 2 volts. Now the only cable going up there is power. I can get a great peak as high as 15 volts. I couldn’t do that before. Also I believe that some of the R.F. from the SSTRAN was going down the audio lines to my mixer making it sound somewhat “Softer” than it is now. Much less background noise also..
I operate the SSTRAN and the pocket radio from a 24 volt D.C. supply. I decided to convert the 12 volts to 24 volts in the house and send it up to the top because of less loses through the wiring. I have around 26 V.D.C. at the xmtr and connected that directly to the xmtr. I used a 7805 regulator to operate the pocket radio. I contacted SSTRAN about this and Phil said it would be ok but approaching the high limit of the 15 volt on board regulator. I let it run for 3 days constant with no issues..
