"As for the currency conversion, I would need to know how to get a Canadian money order."
Your best bet would be to obtain a debit card, load it with the correct amount using a simple US to Canadian currency converter available anywhere online. Simply google currency converter.
When the transaction takes place, Chez will be paid in the appropriate currency automatically via the debit card and bank system.
There are no C-QUAM Part 15 certified AM transmitters ANYWHERE. Never was. The ASMAX-1 100mW US version unit is Part 15 compliant 100 percent through and through. Problem is that it is not a real kit in the true sense of a kit requiring assembly, and FCC rules specify that no manufacturer can sell assembled transmitters intended to be used in Part 15 without certification. Selling kits that require complete assembly can be sold without any certification required.
Your choosing the best unit for your situation..the Procaster. It comes with everything you need to set up a working Part 15 certified AM station so long as you install the unit in accordance with Part 15.219 and 209 rules.
Until the ground lead issue is defined and clarified, I would not install that thing no higher than 1 meter off the dirt, or be running long ground lines down the side of a building if your up in an apartment dwelling. Apparently the fire under the ground lead fiasco is being lit once again.
History repeating. Round and round we go...where it stops (the nonsense) nobody knows..except the individual who started it all back then..and rekindling it today.
Eyes wide open.
RFB
...getting a Walmart money card (prepaid debit card) and putting $100 a month on it. Once I reach about $1200, I'm gonna order a procaster. That way there's enough money on the card if there are any hidden fees involved in buying a Canadian transmitter or maybe a set of 2 broadcast mikes for the Cruise and 450 morning show if there are no fees.
If all goes well (my car doesn't blow up. I've already spent $2000 in repairs, including a transmission and other items) Channel X should be on air in roughly a year.
I've also been put on the lookout this week, and just last week the great author Ray Bradbury died. I think he wrote, "Something Crooked This Way Comes", which may have been the story of a tongue. A talking tongue that filed complaints in attempt to demolish part 15 radio. Maybe I'm mixing that up with something else, it's been awhile since I read it.
He also wrote Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which paper burns, about the future fire department being called to burn books which are forbidden by Homesick Security. At least then there would be no part 15 rules, but there would also be no schematic diagrams.
And "Martian Chronicles", a story about human colonies who settled on Mars to escape the destruction of the earth. That is happening now too, with a Mars settlement due to blast off in a few short years.
Once we are up there, we will no longer have an earth ground. We will have a Mars ground. And there be this guy who tries to get it all stopped.
I miss Ray Bradbury.
I believe it was in 9th grade. It was a good book. I miss Ray also. Another book I'd like to read is 1984. I've heard alot about big brother and how things are turning that way in this country.
In a way the FCC could be considered the thought police. If you think of a dirty word, you can't say it on the radio without getting in trouble.
I really need to read more books before I talk about them. Lol
I believe the correct title is Something Wicked This Way Comes, but the thoughts are the same.
I concur with RFB. The Procaster allows you a 19 inch lead to ground (all in the documentation) and I'd stay with that - install the transmitter no more than 19 inches above the surface. If you tune the thing up properly and stay with that length of ground, you should be fine as far as legalities are concerned - important if you're going to advertise the fact that you're there. Sink an 8 foot ground rod, attach some radials and the range you want should be achievable.
I run a show late some nights called "Radio Books." It features readings of public domain books available free at librivox.org
George Orwell's "1984" is not yet in public domain, but it might be soon...think he lived into the 40s or 50s.
One section, about "Newspeak", the official language of thought control, allowed only certain words to be used. In that way both thought and conversation would be very shallow. We have now the word list of common words that get you tagged for suspicion.... same thing happening in real life.