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Would any one of you fine gents have this user/assembly manual for the Panaxis FMX? I have the transmitter which I put together some time back when this kit first became available. But have long since lost the info. I cannot seem to locate it online.
Brian
Total posts : 45366right below the veronica section. there is a manual and schematic…
http://72.52.208.92/~gbpprorg/lpfm/index.html
Total posts : 45366… that thing is definitely not a Part 15 unit, however the standalone CC100 is.
Total posts : 45366it apparently comes with settings and antenna instructions to make it part 15.239 compliant. the ACC100 is just an fmx turned down with a 20″ attached wire for antenna.
Total posts : 45366No it’s not part 15, but pirate broadcasting isn’t my intention. I’m using an FME500 turned down so low I cannot reliably measure it on my watt meter now. I’m getting maybe two blocks with it. Anyhow I did see and copied those PDFs, but no assembly manual explaining the different components which is what I was hoping for. Thanks gents.
Brian
Total posts : 45366I’d keep using the FME500. That outperforms the FMX thing by 100 fold in sound quality and stereo separation if your using the FMS module too.
As long as your meeting the 250uV at 3 meters from the TX antenna, the use of the FME 500 is perfectly fine.
RFB
Total posts : 45366RFB thanks. I’m aware of the FMX shortcomings. It’s been sitting on my shelf for at least 10+ years. I purchased it when it first came out. I want to insure it works properly and give it to a friend of mine. I have two FMEs that work beautifully. Both have the original SG1 stereo generators. I haven’t heard really anything good on the SG2.
Just a note of where I’m going with this. First I want to give this FMX to a friend with the proper instructions. I recently sold off my AMT3000 and plan in the near future to purchase an AMT5000. Which will be setup as a PT-15 station. Then the flea powered FM setup will hit the shelf for another day.
Brian
Total posts : 45366how does the BW digilog compare to the panaxis SG?
Total posts : 45366“I have two FMEs that work beautifully. Both have the original SG1 stereo generators. I haven’t heard really anything good on the SG2.”
I have not heard anything about the SG2’s performance over the SG1 either.
However after owning the Panaxis FM 10 watt exciter which has the FME 500, the SG1, and the FM 10 amp plus power supply in the original cabinet put together by the man himself, E.G.W, it’s outlived even some of the other Panaxis units I used to have, and still fires right up and sounds as excellent as it did the day I received it from him.
It was a huge investment back in the day..one I am glad I made when I did. Now it sits along side the Panaxis AM 100 and AM-5 amplifier, a Panaxis FM 2/20 and its companion 2 watt amp, among a few other things on my TX history shelf. I even have one of those old Knight one tube AM kits sitting up there in all its non-polarized AC plug glory!! 😀
RFB
Total posts : 45366i have thought about offering a knight kit reproduction but it wouldn’t be cheap and some mods would need to be made to make it more stable and to eliminate the hot on the chassis problem.
Total posts : 45366RFB, never bought any of Ernie’s other goodies but I do remember them. You’re bringing some memories back. Around 1977/78 a friend had one of those Knight kits. I recall we played with long wires and other ideas. We had big dreams of broadcasting to the world and always wondering who was hearing us. Probably nobody, as I recall it was fairly short distance. But what fun and magic radio held for us then 🙂
Brian
Total posts : 45366Remember some of them so called “modern” televisions that sported the switching power supplies with one side of the AC hot floating around in the chassis?!!
At one time I had thought technology took a giant leap backwards with those designs. They were dangerous to work on and quite a pain in the rear for developing static discharges from the HV anode over to the ground strap on the CRT which connected via a wire over to the chassis ground which had a mere 1 Meg ohm resistor separating the “cold” ground with the “hot” ground. Didn’t work very well I might add.
Silly…very silly designs IMO. It’s no wonder I seen so many of them hit the shop..all with the same problems and component failures across hundreds of them.
But for the day, they made wonderful regular repair income for a few years!
RFB
Total posts : 45366“We had big dreams of broadcasting to the world and always wondering who was hearing us.”
When working with the Knight kit, I always imagined my voice was heard across the world! I was very young at the time, about 6 yrs old and had a small Emerson radio to work with.
I remember using a long wire strung along the wooden fence in the back yard and attached ground to a nearby cold water pipe. Since I was able to hear my signal all around the block, I thought to myself “the world will hear me” and I actually believed it!
Well at that time I was not aware that beyond the 1 block radius the signal faded to nothing because I never was allowed to go beyond the block we lived on without my brother in tow. He was a jerk anyway. 😀
Ahh the good ol days of the unknown and undiscovered. Sure made for some fun times and adventures!
RFB
Total posts : 45366Yes exactly. I also miss the days of getting up early, so I could catch some of the old low power local AM stations sign on the air. Usually at 6/am. You’re correct. Those were fun days. Now I understand things far better. It seems to have taken some of the mystery and fun out of it.
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