So I have had my talking house upstairs in one of the rooms broadcasting. I however decided to see what range I would get if I move it downstairs (Plus I wanted more room in that room and the station was takeing up quite a bit of space :P). I put it downstairs in a office where I have my Modem, Router, and Access Point. I plugged her in down their and decided to see how far she would go downstairs. I was shocked to see I got much better coverage downstairs than I did upstairs. I will be sure to post the range I get when I do a full test but places that were noisy or weak had a good signal.
There are a few things I am guessing might be boosting it but I would like to hear your guys view on it.
#1. I think since it is lower to the ground it has a better ground than it had upstairs.
#2. I have a cutom built router and network I made in that room so their are allot of cables and wireless activity down their so I think those cables may be helping boot the signal.
#3. Out side not far from that room is a Power Box. I am thinking it could be traveling through the power lines under the ground.
I was shocked to see this but I guess I will keep her down stairs now 😛
What do you guys think helped with this range boot?
Thanks 🙂
It is only a guess but the network wiring plus being closer to the outside power box may have added conductors which are re-radiating your signal.
In any case, glad you see an improvement and it does pay to experiment.
Neil
Yep it is also next to a window downstairs where I have the wire atenna taped to. So it goes further in that direction. I am not sure how far but it covers that entire neaborhood which is sweet. I just need to now setup jingles and that kind of stuff and I would say im all set 🙂
I would like to test the range with a newer car since the radios in those are better filtering out noise.
Since the ground is provided through the power outlet, I've noticed that plugging a Talking House or a Talking Sign into different outlets does have an effect on the signal. It could be something as simple as the ground connection in the outlet. I had a big problem with hum when I first plugged in a Talking Sign, but moving outlets reduced it to almost nothing (I later found out it was on a different circuit, and something on the other circuit was causing issues).
My first thought was similar to the other posts... I think being closer to the power box earth ground rod increases the ability of the RF output to reach really good resonance.
I have an AMT3000 + loading coil grounded to the electic ground directly under the floor and it gives solid house/yard coverage with no dead spots.
So from looking around I see more modulation can get more range. Right now with my talking house I peak about 1mile of a ok signal and 2 miles with it faint. I am wondering can I increase the modulation and how? Also are there any things you guys have done to your AM transmitters to help give it a boost?
Thanks 🙂
winter4w since you have the Talking House which has no built in audio processing (as far as I know) you can add either hardware or software to the audio chain to boost the modulation.
A very effective hardware device is the Innovonics 222 and there are others... there are many threads about it.
Fantastic software that perfectly does exactly what the best hardware does is Stero Tool by Hans Van Zutphen, which comes either as a plugin for Winamp DSP as well as a stand-alone version. This is what I use and it vastly increases my level sounding super good just like big city professional stations.
Yea I am useing stereo tool right now to help drop the noise and make the audio sound cleaner. Some settings in stereo tool you need to pay for and they are a bit pricy. I do have the Autocom Pro-XL. I am wondering what nob do I turn to increase it or what settings may give me the best results 🙂
Hi...i am a new user here. As per my knowledge the network wiring plus being closer to the outside power box may have added conductors which are re-radiating your signal.
Yea I am happy with it all. My car however is old so my AM pick up allot of noise. I also had to mod my radio a bit so I can get XM on it (Yep I got XM radio on a 1996 car 😉 ). But I get around 1 mile north of clean range and 2 miles with noise. On newer cars that have stareos to hide the noise I can get it clean for a mile but I havent got any further than that with the newer car.
Hi guys! Doug here.
I have a TH. Two of them. Both are boat anchors. One is just hum. The other, the audio is so distorted...plus hum...and this thing is brand new! A Mackie 1402 VLZ feeds it. I'm about to just say screw it and save for a Hamilton Rangemaster. I'm tired of "toys".
Doug
I had a loud hum on my transmitter due to a ground loop. I got this ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EAQTRI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and most if it went away.
I've had hum in my Talking House too, and I agree, try different grounding and ways of connecting. Your mixer might even be getting RF backed up into it if it's close to the transmitter's antenna.
It's not really the quality of the transmitter in most cases, it's how it's set up. My old kit had a 1 transistor RF stage built on an open bread board with long wires and it never got hum, because it ran from batteries and was self contained.
I don't know about those rangemasters, they seem to be high priced Tiffany gear for use if you're putting a whole network together and with money to burn.
Saw your post and took a look, read reviews and everyone says this worked so I got it.
Has a stereo jack to stereo plug(3.5mm) and I will put it between the RNC compressor and the transmitter(Broadcastvision)....see what happens.
Mark
Another thing that sometimes causes distortion is driving too much audio in. The mixer outputs pretty hot so connect to the line level input of the Talking House and don't turn the output level of the mixer to high. I had to get an atennuator cable for my Mackie to patch into the TH5 and it works just fine now.