Better sound equals more modulation. More modulation equals better range. Well...not entirely true.
To get my Enhanced Talking House AM transmitter to sound anything close to what an Album Rocker would listen to I had to equalize the heck out of it. Now since I'm streaming and need to monitor the actual stream I decided to do it the poor man's way. I used Winamp's equalizer and set the output of Winamp to feed into the second sound card. Here is how I set the EA:
Band 1 on the left set to the middle at 0
Band 2 Set to 4 notches
Band 3 Set to 4 notches
Band 4 Set to 4 notches
Band 5 Set Down all the way. This should be the 1K slider.
Band 6-10 Leave in the middle.
Finally it is not nasally sounding. It took quite a while to set this but finally I don't get listener fatigue from the over driven mid range of the Talking House 5.0 enhanced. Now my NextKast will have to be routed differently when I get the FM transmitter but maybe too I'll have to invest in a Walkman type EQ and a y connector for the AM side when I get the FM side in Good Working Order. This way I can leave the sound the way it should for FM and equalize it for AM with an external EQ.
Looking at the fuller text of what Kyle Drake said, we discover he was not wrong at all and covers the ground that Rich claimed for himself by quoting Mr. Drake out of context:
"A shortened antenna exhibits a high level of capacitive reactance; in essence, it behaves like a lossy capacitor. In order to make the antenna 50-Ohms the excess capacitive reactance needs to be canceled out with its electrical opposite, inductive reactance, which is done with a loading coil.
A loading coil is, in all respects, a large inductor that tunes the antenna's impedance to that of the coax and/or transmitter, which is in most cases 50-Ohms. Loading coils are designed to be variable, because for LPAM broadcasters it is impossible to determine the exact impedance value of a homemade antenna."
Mr Blare hasn't understood/recognized the point of my post in Reply #140 above, which was/is that canceling the capacitive reactance at the feedpoint of an antenna system does _NOT_ necesssarily produce a feedpoint impedance of 50 ohms -- and most likely will not do so.
That much is true.
I was referring to my post in Reply #139.
So then Mr Blare -- on these points you agree with me (now) ?
Did you personally know the Late Kyle Drake?
Perhaps you worked at the same company or otherwise encountered each other?
Mr Blare posted ... Perhaps you worked at the same company or otherwise encountered each other? ...
No.
But how would any such case change the physical realities here ?
Mr. Member Rich asked: "But how would any such case change the physical realities here?"
In as much as you say you didn't know him personally it becomes a moot point."
Well I found my AM atenna for my clock and the sound is not bad at all. I am still not sure if it is the advanced or not but I am happy with it. Now the only thing I need to do is find out how I can boost the range out of this babby :P. I am going to stick with 1670 AM unless someone has a better frequency to use 🙂
Thanks
Well the pirate that was on 87.9 is down due to the FCC handing him a letter lol. So I did test 87.9 and it is 100% clean. So some time this week I will be trying my TV tinfoil and see the true real range I will be getting from this.
Operation on 87.9 is not legal. No matter what power, you may still be considered a pirate.
I'm NO LONGER USING THAT FREQUENCY!! Until the proposal is LAW i'm back to 96.3 Mhz and checking for temperature inversions after 6PM. Plus there is a station now on 88.1 Mhz in Hampton University and you can hear that at night. So no more of that. Lets just get the petition passed first. See I Believe In thread to talk more about the FM Initiative. Be Careful don't tread on quicksand. Right now 87.9 Mhz is quicksand.