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Well just got the Talking House a few minutes ago, and its already up and running.
At first I couldn’t get anything except the pre-recorded messages to go out over it, I thought it was broke.
Well just got the Talking House a few minutes ago, and its already up and running.
At first I couldn’t get anything except the pre-recorded messages to go out over it, I thought it was broke.
No it is not.
What it is doing, this transmitter is so danged powerful it completely obliterates my FM signal to the point where it bleeds INTO IT!
The range is phenomenal, it goes where the SSTran Cannot even on Adjacent 1610, over on 1560 this sucker has nearly full bars outside on the edge of my property. The SSTran did not.
I’ll have to do a test this weekend, Side by Side with my SSTran and the mattress ground.
Total posts : 45366The Crow,
Are you using the same antenna as with the SStran?
I am surprised it is affecting your FM transmitter. Is it physically close to it?
Total posts : 45366Hey Carl,
actually I’m using the supplied Antenna That Came With The TH.
The Transmitter is across the room from the FM.
it is however physically close, and plugged into the same outlet as the Streaming Computer, which is then in turn connected Directly to my audio board, which is directly connected to the FM Transmitter.
The Bleeding is actually going into my Boards headphones, there’s about a 3-4 second delay in audio, which I can hear even with the Volume control for said headphones all the way down!
Total posts : 45366The Crow
How do you like the audio quality of the Talking House?
Total posts : 45366Well its a TH 4.3
With a little bit of Audio Spicing up, it sounds just fine.
Total posts : 45366Congrads on the new xmtr!! Did you get the external ATU?
MS
Total posts : 45366Thanks!
Actually I didn’t get the ATU, and now it seems I might not even have too!
Although, if one pops up on eBay I might have to get it 🙂
Total posts : 45366The Official Coverage of the Talking House is as follows
Antenna Type: Wire Indoor Antenna
Transmitter: Talking House TH 4.3Range: 1/3+ of a mile. From one Major Road to the other.
One Side of the signal reaches a lake and creek supplying it, I expect the signal to follow that lake and creek, more details coming in the next week or so.
Overall This is pretty danged good with that indoor antenna!
Total posts : 45366Hi Crow,
That is nearly the same coverage I had with the same model TH using the indoor antenna. Some days it was more, but after almost a year of running it i took the TH off the air and stuck it in the closet.
Not too long ago I took it out and played with it a bit then sent it to a friend in New York. It has been plagued with FM’ing problems and I was unable to get it to perform the way it should.
If i was going to try another i think i personally would try to buy the whole kit-n-kaboodle from I AM Radio website including the ATU.
Thanks for the great report on your TH Transmitter, best of luck to you.
Total posts : 45366also, be sure to turn down your volume input or you will overload the transmitter with audio and it will sound crappy.
i lower the volume to about 50 in windows, that seems to make it sound better.
Total posts : 45366A word of caution about judging range of an INDOOR transmitter by driving along the road out front of your house. You are most likely receiving the signal from the overhead power line.
1/3 mile is 1742 ft. When I operate a transmitter in the basement with a 3 meter wire hanging across the ceiling, I get similar range. 1100 ft from my house in one direction. It drops out at the intersection where the power lines T with lines along the other road. 900 ft in the other direction where the power lines stop in front of the last house, which is several hundred ft from the next intersection. The signal is much stronger when driving in the direction where the power lines are on the same side of the road as the car. Also, there are momentary increases in the signal as I pass under feed wires that cross the road to individual houses.
When I back out from the garage to the road over a 150 ft driveway, the signal is very strong in the garage, then drops out midway and then increases dramatically again at the end of the driveway under the pwoer lines.
The same transmitter mounted outdoors about 20 ft from the house with a base-loaded antenna and a good ground has a much longer range of usable signal (about 2.3 miles in one direction) and about .3 miles in another that has the house between the antenna and the receive point. The range also suffers in directions that have a higher noise level due to commercial buildings. The direction of 2.3 miles observation is out over sparsely populated land.
This power line radiation effect is nice to have, but it isn’t very effective when more than 15 or 20 ft away from the center-line of the overhead wires. It is an artifact of having the transmitter inside the house. Increasing the power level by a factor of 10 makes the signal much stronger along the power lines, but it still drops out to an unusable level at the end of the lines.
True 360 degree range can only be achieved with a good outdoor antenna installation that’s in the clear. Even then you may experience some apparent enhancement from the power lines depending on how much of your RF current flows to ground via the power wires to the transmitter vs. the amount that flows to the ground rod and radials. A very good ground system will have a much lower impedance to ground than the power wires, so less current will flow to the power wires causing the power line radiation to be reduced in favor of better 360 degree radiation.
Total posts : 45366Thats a very good point Phil!
Only, we don’t have over head power lines.
Maybe the buried lines are re-radiating?
I do still love my SSTran, it’s audio quality is excellent. Just its Indoor Range is not so hot.
I heard what might make the Talking House Go sar far is it grounds into the AC ground.
(3 prong Outlet Plug)Maybe it would be possible to modify an SSTran to do the same.
*Calling Carl Blare*
Total posts : 45366Returning The Crow’s Call…..
You wrote..
Maybe it would be possible to modify an SSTran to do the same.
*Calling Carl Blare*You must explain what you mean. I have never modified my SStran because it is perfect already, but I have talked about my fantasy of inventing some way of converting a house into an antenna that works just as well outdoors as an antenna that is outdoors.
PhilB has brought the reality that nothing can work as well as an outdoor antenna mounted in a clear area, but I do not place all my trust in reality.
Quoting Bruce – Dog Studio 2 – low power radio is mysterious.
Mysteriousness is better for low power transmitter sales than reality.
Some of us actually think we have listeners. Shy listeners. Listeners who never write or call.
That’s what makes Part15 so much fun.
Total posts : 45366I would love to hear how the talking house sounds with the RANGE EXTENDER with a CB WHIP
the current auction on ebay is going to probably end up over 200 dollars.
i think it is worth it just for that range extender. people are saying it reaches up to 2.5 miles CLEAR SOUND
Total posts : 45366what is the difference between the AM Transmitter (enhanced) for 195.00 and the AM Transmitter for 99.95 on the iamradio website.
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