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 Carl Blare
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There have been videos showing compact homes built inside one or more metal storage lockers.

Seems to us at KDX Worldround Radio that a storage locker set out back would make an ideal transmitter shed which would serve as its own ground with an antenna center top.

There's enough room inside to put the whole radio station if desired, protection from the weather when tuning the transmitter, and room left over for a mini-kitchen and army cot.


 
Posted : 27/06/2018 3:12 am
ArtisanRadio
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Interesting topic. I wonder what other unique spaces have been utilized as studios by our members?


 
Posted : 27/06/2018 4:06 am
 Brooce
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Back at the other house, my SS-Tran AMT-3000 was in a small plastic children's playhouse.  The

transmitter sat on the ground next to my homemade loading coil.  The 3 meter stick poked up through a hole that I cut in the roof.  About a third of the antenna was under the roof.  The rest of course was visible over the top.  It all worked out pretty well.  It got out 2 miles on a really really really good day.
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Posted : 27/06/2018 8:58 am
 Brooce
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I guess it's obvious.  I'm having trouble posting stuff

on the website.  I'll figure it

out eventually.

Brooce


 
Posted : 27/06/2018 9:03 am
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Nothing spectacular, but when I was between houses on Bowen Island, I lived in a very small apartment on the mainland in West Vancouver.

I truly had my computer room/studio in a closet.  I would have to move clothes around to do any work on programming.  The transmitter sat on a window frame in my bedroom, overlooking my coverage area.  I fed it with a long RCA cable.  Luckily I was high up, so coverage was decent (a few long blocks on FM, using my Decade MS-100).


 
Posted : 27/06/2018 12:36 pm
 Thelegacy
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If you wanted you could even use a Bluetooth transmitter and receiver to get the audio to your transmitter. This sounds like it would be a relatively better-looking way to set up a ground-mounted transmitter and maybe even be something that would meet the decor for those of you who have spouses who don't like anything that is ugly looking.

A child's Playhouse with a transmitter built into it might be interesting. If it's a good-looking Playhouse like the ones that you can find at Walmart you never know. There are even more up scale type of playhouses that really are like a very small house that's kids size and that could hold a transmitter.

If you did carrier current you wouldn't even have to have an antenna sticking up. That might even meet the decoration requirements of the more high maintenance woman.


 
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