Diablo

How do you start a new topic on this site .  Longwave broadcast is the topic I want to start on this board .  I know few people in North America have radio’s with longwave band but there’s something interesting about how far long wave signals can travel at times and I wonder if it also applies to part 15 AM too.  Can 100 milli watts cause sk…[Read more]

Philip Walker , YouTube  is planning on autioning off two AM transmitters on Ebay ,  soon .  Procaster transmitter is one of the two and the other is a Chris Cuff AM stereo transmitter.    It’s great that your station is doing well and that you live in a country that you have the right to broadcast at low power . I wish it was that way here in t…[Read more]

Extreme cold weather extends the range of part 15 transmitters .   Antennas become more efficient as the temperature drops .  It may go down to 5 degrees or lower ,that will extend my range dramatically.  The greatest distance reached by my Talking House was 9 miles as the crow flies and more than 10 with my other ,now main transmitter .

I doubt if the government will bother you at all with what you’re doing . Some people go too far with things ,something you’re not doing .  Setting up multiple transmitters all playing the same content in order to cover a massive area with a solid signal is asking for trouble.  Let’s say I did the same ,3 transmitters I could cover the entire c…[Read more]

The reason I posted my comment was only to point out where radio broadcasting seems to headed . I’ve spent more than 30 years traveling the east coast through many of the wealthiest areas of this country, including the Washington DC area . For all the negatives I posted there’re a few positive exceptions . Broadcasting is doing fine when it comes…[Read more]

All of the electronic stores are long gone here and back home .  Only two AM stations left on the air that could be considered local .The rest surrendered their licenses .  Many AM stations are operating at very low power behind the FCC back or only on the air a few days a year to keep their license.  Where my mom lives at some FM stations sign of…[Read more]

It’s true but my transmitter isn’t directly connected to my radials . They’re connected to the metal roof.  The two antennas I use for a ground aren’t that large and don’t radiate a strong signal ,about 93 dbu untuned.  They help with sound quality more than anything.  I also don’t have any more range with them hooked up.  My antenna for bro…[Read more]

I have the Panasonic 2400 .It’s an excellent AM radio but the FM isn’t so good .  Maybe radio is doing better in Canada than here ,USA.   Other than Dollar General there isn’t any radio’s on the shelves .  It’s has been many years since I’ve saw anybody walk around with a radio on the streets.  The Internet is killing almost everything.

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Since you have regular contact with Gerrymandering at Procaster, maybe you could bring up the topic of multiple transmitters simulcasting so he can alert peole buying more than one transmitter about it being illegal in Canada . Most of the AM stations I know of in US also were operating multiple transmitters, not a good idea of doing in the US…[Read more]

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I saw somewhere in Canada that you can’t use multiple transmitters, only one .  Most likely there was the problem.  I also saw that low powered unlicensed stations can’t broadcast religious programming.   The USA is being overloaded with religious radio stations,  another sign of a dying FM band.

I wonder why they bothered shutting the station down . AM radio is more dead in Canada than it is in the USA. Here it’s extremely dead but in Canada most stations have migrated to FM ,around 100 active am stations left .  Maybe they were broadcasting hate or anti government propaganda.

I use an elevated ground .  My antenna is on a tower above the roof  and beside the broadcast antenna are two other antennas that I use for the ground .  They don’t seem to be radiating but help with sound quality more than anything.  My broadcast antenna has a capacitance hat at the top and it is not directly connected to the antenna but con…[Read more]