A Purpose

This is kind of a funny little
thing, but for the first time,
I feel as if my little station
has a purpose.

Right now it is 250 uV per meter
@ 3 meters on 90.9 MHz as per 15.239.

This is kind of a funny little
thing, but for the first time,
I feel as if my little station
has a purpose.

Right now it is 250 uV per meter
@ 3 meters on 90.9 MHz as per 15.239.
That's all that is running as I work
on other transmitters, and other gear.

In this neighborhood the houses
are almost on top of each other,
so there is a chance that the small 90.9
signal can be heard by some people.

I have intermittently been working on
the carrier current set-up, the Gates
board, the 3 meter outside set-up and
the 13.560 rig, along with other DRS2
things.

The station has always been just an experiment.

I am following something from the legendary
SCWIS, (I think that's his ident, do I have
it right?) who diagrammed on his website, the
simplest Part 15 station possible. Right now,
as I work on everything else, and wait for
parts, another junk computer, etc., I am
only doing one thing.

I am retransmitting NOAA weather radio. 24/7.

With everything else taken apart, I just
have a weather radio hooked to the transmitter.
I don't even need an audio processor, because
the NOAA radio audio is processed already. The
weather receiver is an old beautiful Bearcat 800XLT.
It's very sensitive.
The transmitter is a North Country radio MPX-96
rigged to comply with the regs.

The station was always just a science experiment
Now it's transmitting some actual useful information.

For the very first time, I feel like DRS2 has
a purpose. Isn't that a funny thing?

Now I just have to get these other things
done.

Bruce, DRS2