Due to some issues with my eyes, I have to take Artisan Radio down for a while (at least until I resolve the issues).
I also won't be on computer screens and minimally on my phone. So good luck guys.
And I wouldn't sweat the small stuff about compliance. If a transmitter is certified, that should be good enough for anyone to use. The FCC and ISED doesn't expect users to own multi thousand dollar testing equipment.
Doing so just plays into the hands of HB and others who want to direct all this stuff into their way of thinking, i.e., the crusty curmudgeon way.
Bye for now...
Hope all will be OK. Sorry to hear this.
Take care. As for the phones those little screens and the text and everything so tiny has always had me wondering how people can do this non stop close up endlessly staring at this thing. Much better not straining and seeing a large screen on a home computer with adjustable text size with everything easy to see. Maybe that is not your issue but still....hope all is well.
just read one of the most hypocritical and self serving posts over at HB...and thats saying a lot. it starts off with long ground leads, and ends with fm compliance.
first, there are photos highlighting supposed part 15 am stations on that site that feature elevated installs and long ground leads. so much for his so called policing.
as for fm part 15 compliance, if a device has been certified, them the fcc accepts it as being compliant. the rules state that it is the manufacturer that is responsible, not the end user. look it up. one of the reasons for certification is that it takes expensive equipment to measure field strength, equipment that most won't have.
in real and practical terms, if a device is certified, then it can be used, assuming that it is unmodified. the rules apply to the certification, not actual use. for we all know that virtually anything can affect a transmitter field strength. transmitters are certified without an audio cable, as the device is unmodulated in the lab. add such a cable, you change the field strength. use it on a metal surfaces, change the field strength. increase the height, change the orientation, there goes the field strength. sometimes is decreases,sometimes increases.
and lets get really real. all truly certified devices have minimal range with city field strength. in fact, they never do achieve that. try as you might, you will never get great range to a typical radio. even when i say i get a range of several hundred meters, thats to a sensitive car radio and barely hearing the signal. no sane person would listen to a commercial station that sounded that bad. so we are arguing about possibly increasing range by feet at most, even with modifications.
i don't include here those transmitters that have obviously been falsely certified (those 7 watt jobs). the only reason i can see for HB's obsession with so called pirate operators is to try to make themselves look good.
true pirate operators use uncertified equipment in the multi watts category. and sites like HB that misrepresent the facts just make me sick to my stomach.
just read one of the most hypocritical and self serving posts over at HB...and thats saying a lot. it starts off with long ground leads, and ends with fm compliance.
Sure wish I could read it. I signed up for an HB account with an offer to pay per the instructions. Received an account gratis for a bit, but before I could compose some meaningful content to post, the account got yanked with an email explaining lack of contributing to be the reason. This is all within about two weeks time. Really weird. I responded to the email and received "too little too late." Glad I found part15.org.
Nevermind... it appears I can read enough of it. Analyzing now and might start a new thread about it.
@artisan-radio, are you referring to "the blind leading the blind" post?
Well, HB says you read it there first and all others copy, but I think HB's post was started because of the Decade MS-100 discussion here e.g. the hole in the cabinet, so maybe this forum is being read there and that post was started by reading it here first! If they read what is here they should have read the discussion was not in anyway advocating RF adjustment and was being criticized.
But back on subject, Artisan, take care of your eyes! Don't get too upset at what is over there.
If they read what is here they should have read the discussion was not in anyway advocating RF adjustment and was being criticized.
The only post in that whole thread that could have been construed as advocating adjustment of the RF power output was the comment that Carl made about adjusting the power and wiping off the finger prints! I took that to be a joke, though I can see how kidding about such things might not go down too well in some quarters.
I still think it's strange that the metal top cover on some of those MS-100's would have a hole for adjustment of the power. The explanation given, that it was for a client, seems a little odd to me. Why make it easy for an end user to adjust the power?
Glad I found part15.org.
Not sure whether it's kosher to mention another forum here, but there is also a Part 15 sub-forum over at HF Underground. It's only one section of a much bigger forum, and it's also not very active. On the plus side, there are very few ads (way fewer than here), members have the ability to PM each other, and the forum owner/admin is active on the site and easy to get hold of.
@rugster This forum also had the ability to PM other members but that was changed when the admin changed, maybe not as it wasn't that long ago. As for the ads I have Firefox and the ad blocker and the ads are gone from here. $12 a year.
As for not being kosher I checked HF Underground and didn't see the Part 15 spin off but since this forum is for not encouraging illegal operation it may not be kosher mention that one. We all know there are other forums e.g. Facebook ones, and I'm sure that people here can also participate over on those also but encouraging people on this forum to try another?
We should be trying to get members over here. I can always contact admin with any concerns like ads in the posts or anything else.
Points taken @mark. I do think that the ability to PM other members would be a great feature to have here.
I am not a doctor in this life, but I will make some remarks that haven't been asked for.
My eyes have not been irritated while viewing the computer screen, and I think I know why.
With a computer screen, one is looking into light rather than having it come from behind or overhead. Looking at the source of light can cause eye strain. What I have done is lower the white level of the screen to a threshold of comfort, and everything seems fine, even after long periods of time.
There is no charge for this unsolicited opinion.
It's the glare and blue light from a computer screen. It's happened before, can be mitigated with software such as f.lux, but I will always be sensitive to it. After another issue, I've decided to take a break.
As for being upset with what goes on 'over there', those guys are supposed to be the premier experts in the field, yet spend most of their time attacking others. While spreading misinformation and obfuscation. The only thing they really do is spread b..., well, I'm not going to go there. Suffice it to say that I don't tolerate fools gladly (or silently).
I will check in here once in a while, and hopefully will find a longer-term solution at some point.
For those interested, I may run my SDR at times, along with my phone to supply audio to the AM transmitter. But that's a stopgap measure at best.
@artisan-radio With the computer, try setting the night light at 9 or 10 and set it to be on all the time so the screen picture is a "warmer" image. Also lower the brightness. Just a suggestion and make the text larger and even change the scaling in the display settings to make easy to see and not straining even without knowing it.
It's because of trying to see up close all the time and not looking out in the distance. The opthamologists say that younger people are making themselves near sited by staring at a phone all the time with that tiny text. It actually changes the shape of your eye. It's why I don't read, and never have. Same thing, but a book doesn't give off it's own light. The computers with a non glare(matte) screen are better that the ones with a mirror finish.