Artisan, The wholehouse is not in the league of the Decades....the CM-10 included which I have and use. I'm sure that with a little duct tape and a small windowsill you can install the Decade just fine....or maybe if you have the newer one, not the plastic case model you sold me, it may be kinda heavy...a stool or table near the window would work and the antenna would extend up in front of the window.
But the CM-10 would be perfect! Where there's a will there's a way!...or so I've heard. Good luck.
Mark
The SainSonic AX-05B is the same size as the Decade for those that don't know. Depending on how big your window is you should get the SainSonic AX-05B near it too. I think the Whole House FM Transmitter 3.0 is a harder plastic but it was the reason I didn't want that transmitter. Me being legally Blind if I were to have accidentally dropped it one time that would be the end of it. I'm sue the SainSonic would break too if it fell on the TNC connector. But I'm not planning on dropping it. But say if it happened if it fell straight down say from a desk to the floor and didn't hit the connector or the two volume nobs you may have a chance it didn't break. But again accidents do happen and I'm a big fan of a metal transmitter also because it keeps interference from getting into the TX. Good ham gear is made of metal too. I don't see too many plastic ham gear unless its very hard plastic like the Motorola HT's. I'd love to see Motorola start making part 15 FM transmitters it would be mint and very durable too. They do stand behind their equipment probably better than SainSonic would. If that transmitter went bad good look getting it fixed I say cuz I'm sure they would tell you to buy a new one.
I tried this unit in its "as shipped" condition and was rather disapponted. Then I found the "Secret Switch" mentioned a few times on this site and used it -> o.k city-range increased to about 50 yards (on an unused frequency) but the transmission went into the mains and got hum-modulated. Then I put 3 AA cells into it - while still using a Samsung charger as 5V power supply -> results became a lot cleaner. Then I used a lappy (connected to its own high-quality power supply) as a power source -> now the signal is not only strong but also clean and hum-free 😉
I find that the AVC inside this transmitter is barely good enough to prevent essing on mono but on stereo transmission I had to reduce the input to 3 bars on the display and cut all audio above 14kHz with the in-built equalizer in the lappy to avoid essing on speech. Note that an FM tuner needs 20dB more signal strength at the aerial to reproduce a stereo broadcast with the same s/n ratio as a monaural one.
The batteries inside the unit are not used, actually they could be flat - it's just their metal mass that offers a good counterweight to the 5/8 Lambda aerial wire (hung from the ceiling). The USB charger is also poisoned by the RF and modulates my signal with hum and sizzling. The lap-top computer (which also provides the audio signal) does not seem to suffer from the stray-RF and does not detract from its quality. Under the abovementioned conditions the Whole House 2.0 is very satisfactory indeed...
Artisan said:
"I picked one of these up used on e-bay for a good price. It's the right size for what I want to use it for, and it is Part 15 certified. It is also RSS210 certified in Canada - RSS210 is pretty much identical to Part 15 but for one small caveat. RSS210 cannot be used for broadcasting - for that, you need to use BETS. The basic technical requirements for BETS are the same as in RSS210, but BETS allows 4 times the field strength of RSS210 in the FM broadcast band.
And here is where it gets complicated. There is no BETS certification. You can only get RSS210 certified transmitters. If Industry Canada stops around to inspect your broadcasting studio, you have to show BETS compliance only. If your transmitter is RSS210 certified, then by default it is BETS compliant, and you are also allowed to increase your field strength up to 4 times that of RSS210."
We now found out different LOL!
Sometimes when these old threads come up again what was assumed then has changed as we gather new facts.
Still hard to believe we missed that with RSS-210 about the field strength if FM modulation and odd frequencies and BETS-1 certifying.
Mark