Does anyone have experience with the North County Radio AM88, particularly in the LW part 15 region, 160-190kHz? http://www.northcountryradio.com/Kitpages/am88.htm
Does anyone know of other transmitter kits or even off the shelf transmitters that work at 160-190kHz? (I wonder if it is possible to mod a talking house to work that low)
The part 15 dial maps got me thinking about LW again (Thank you Carl!). I have no idea what the range would be for part 15 LW, and range would not be my goal. My thought is LW is a neat little niche that is commercially unserved in the US. At one point there was a push for designing a part 15 LW transmitter. Every now and then it comes up then fizzles.
Amazon has the TECSUN PL-380 for $42. It can tune LW, and it has variable IF bandwidth. That would make listening to part 15 LW transmissions possibly without a $100+ radio.
Good questions, stvcmty.
Way back in 2012, after completing our "Big Talker" shortwave transmitter designed by a committee of part15(dot)us members, we embarked on the design of a long wave transmitter known as "Deep Voice," which remains incomplete.
The link to the work done so-far is here:
http://www.kdxradio.com/deepvoice.html
Hi Guys: I built this kit and i like it.
I finally got a Tecsun PL-880 radio, So now i can do LW.
I only tested it on Am band ( Dummy Load ) and sound very good.
I have no clue when i'll get to doing LW band still need to do research on clear freq. and build my own antenna design.
I don't care for 1/4 wave antennas i like odd wave length they seem to work better for me.
I have seen some circuit design around for Lw transmitter. (Y-tube)
When things gets going here i will be doing LW, AM, SW all at one time.
As range on LW goes I really don't know what the range is but heard one ham operator got about 200 miles so take it with a grain of salt.
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