Well I have plans on just using the TH5.0 with the wire antenna. I might use my tinfoil trick if it works. I just want to know what to do if I do get a NOUO. (I know someone will say that they will likely never show up due to how weak it would be but you never know). I guess I could just say that I was using it to transmit music around my house. From looking at NOUO reports I have only seen a few on the AM band. It seems to me they target the FM band more.
Tin Foil on AM? Huh?
As it happens tin foil is very wide band in most uses and can even be used down in the long wave band, although you'd need qite a large shipment of it and there might be some problem in a windstorm with flying tin foil.
Yep tested it on my cheap FM worked just fine up to .5 miles of range. Only $7 for the transmitter also. I am going to give it a shot on AM with the TH5.0. If that doesn’t work then all well 😛
Think of an NOUO as a very stern warning. So long as you comply and shut down operations it won't escalate into a NAL.
So if you TX was over a bit and you got a NOUO and shut down and then move to a different address and start again with an adjusted transmitter or different one but this time you never went over you'd never get bothered again. Well how about you make the adjustments and your 100% on target with the 250 uV/m for FM or for AM you were right on target with the antenna and ground rules. Would you be allowed to operate again at the same address or do you have to find a new location?
All the FCC really wants you to do is operate legally or not at all.
Yes, so long as you are within part 15 restrictions you can resume operations. Heck some FCC inspectors will help you.
Well that is good to know. So if my AM station was over in some way or I had an issue with a legal 15:239 FM Transmitter an inspector could do something to adjust the TX and make it legal and I'd be able to operate again? Too bad that station in Origon didn't try harder to see what the FCC didn't like and get help with their station.
An FCC inspector is under no obligation (and most likely won't) make adjustments to a system to make it compliant.
There is no such thing as a "legal 15.239 FM transmitter" since the rules apply to the field strength produced and not to the equipment used to produce same. The rules apply to the operation of the station and not to what it is.
The "Oregon station" did try to make modifications and work with the FCC on this. See http://www.part15.us/forum/part15-forums/general-discussion/fcc-issues-rare-ground-lead-nouo Essentially what happened is the station was operating with a ground lead exceeding the 15.219 limits and so part 15.209 field strength limits then governed. The owner worked with the transmitter manufacturer who provided a choke coil for the ground lead and the FCC inspector revisited the site and did tests. The result was that the inspector determined the station was not compliant with or without the ground choke coil. The owner, the FCC inspector, and the transmitter manufacturer went out of their way to find an acceptable solution so it is not accurate to say that any of them should have tried harder.
Neil