I was over on Carl's website and I saw
a picture of "The Dood's" Part 15 installation.
The actual station is in a closet - at least
that's what it looks like. As he mentioned -
I was over on Carl's website and I saw
a picture of "The Dood's" Part 15 installation.
The actual station is in a closet - at least
that's what it looks like. As he mentioned -
it is a Part 15 station in a suitcase!
I would love to know more about this, and how
he arranged things.
Out in his garage is the AM transmit installation.
Near the top of the rack is a beautiful vintage FM
tuner. I would love to know what that is.
As we know, "The Dood" was on Carl's Low Power
Hour. If these questions were already answered
there, and were missed by me - sorry about that.
Are you out there, Mr. "Dood?"
Bruce, (The really really small) DOGRADIO STUDIO 2
Hi Bruce... I can't remember if Tha Dood explained how he programs from a suitcase, but I think the reason for the suitcase is so he can make a quick dash for remote location recordings or streamings, however he does remotes.
I seem to recall the tuner is a Realistic model, and I'm pretty sure he mentions it in the show.
I actually am present at those shows but I don't pay any attention to what anyone says.
Hello DOGRADIO STUDIO 2!
Whelp, for years I was contacting from job to job, moving around a lot. The home studio that filled 1/2 a room was just too impractical, so something else had to be done. In the late 1990's Californian FM pirates bragged about the station in a briefcase consisting of a cassette walkman, maybe a mic, FM TX, and a battery, to set up, TX a broadcast, and get out. I wanted more. So I'd gotten an old 1960's Sampsonite suitecase to fit a 12VDC power system, production routing, audio limiting, compression, and routing, FM exciter TX unit, and AM / FM RX modulation level monitoring directly off-air system. I can do production of a program with this independantly of what is going over-the-air. The 96.9FM is the STL for AM1620, which is in the rack in the garage. The FM is RX'ed at the rack with an old Realistic STA-100 receiver. I then feed the audio from that directly to the AM TX, a I Am Radio TX from Radio Systems, www.iamradio.net . Hope that this answers some questions for you. Thanks for asking!!!!
Tha Dood
Real Free Radio! AM1620 and 96.9FM!
Radio Brandy had an article some months back about an operator having several "suitcase" stations scattered all over London, each complete with a transmitter, whip antenna, on-board 4 channel stereo mixer, two walkman type CD players, powered by Li-Ion 12 volt DC system.
Pretty neat. I just would not want to keep up with that many units out there open to vandalism or being stolen.
RFB