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Continued – Part 3

When you think about it, literature of all types, fiction and non fiction, makes perfect sense as broadcast programming.  Certainly, the folks in the Golden Age of Radio recognized that, creating shorter versions of numerous stories, from Lux Radio Theater to Sam Spade.

There is one inherent problem.  Many books are quite l…[Read more]

… Continued

OTR (Old Time Radio) is another source of public domain programming.

Now, opinions on the public domain-ness (sic) of OTR are like a**h***s.  Everyone has one.

The facts are that the courts, as usual, are the last resort when it comes to deciding this, and not very many cases have made it that far.  When they have, the courts g…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>8:25 PDT April 28, Suspense starring Bela Lugosi</p>

An ad for Tums in the Bulldog Drummond OTR show @ 1:53 PDT Tuesday April 26

It may be that the transmitter is defective.  But that’s the easy answer.

I’ve been doing this since 2006, and have found that there’s very little forgiveness in using 100mw and a short, untuned antenna.  There are several factors that dwarf the miniscule differences between transmitters.

To give a couple of concrete examples.  Ground co…[Read more]

You’re missing the point.

I’ll say it again.  AM is not inherently better than FM or vice versa.  It all depends on what you’re trying to do with your Part 15 station.  Who your listeners are (if any other than yourself).  And where you’re located.

Sometimes AM is the right way to go.  Sometimes FM.  You have to do the research, and then, even…[Read more]

I really have to disagree that Part 15 AM is better than FM, or even vice versa.  There is no one absolute right way or better way.  Like most things in life, it all depends on what you’re trying to do, and where you’re trying to do it.

Those kinds of statements are similar to ones I’ve run into in the computer industry.  ‘Experts’ saying that UN…[Read more]

I assume that’s outside. What does a car radio give you?

I assume that’s outside. What does a car radio give you?

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I forgot to mention.  One of the tests I still need to do is to measure performance on different parts of the FM band.  The antenna for the WHT V3 is just a short piece of wire encased in rubber, so it may perform better on the upper part of the FM band (where the antenna is shorter).  Logical, right?

That being said, I found that my CM-10 (m…[Read more]

It took me a few minutes, but I believe I understand this graph.

It is giving field strength readings at various antenna heights at a distance of 3 meters (the blue line) and 30 meters (the red line).

First, a couple of comments.

This is theoretical, and the values will change based on ground conductivity (if there is one) and potentially other…[Read more]

What you’re saying doesn’t make much sense.

If that were true, then the sky would be uniformly bright with the light from stars.  After all, light is a wave (as well as a particle).

A Radio wave expands (much like a wave in water), and there is a fixed amount of energy in it.  The field strength would therefore decrease as the distance from t…[Read more]

I don’t think we all need to start wearing tin foil hats to protect ourselves from errant radio waves.

There are many and varied reasons to utilize wifi and/or bluetooth within the world of Part 15 broadcasting.

The only viable way of distributing an identical broadcast to another transmitter physically located some distance away is to use…[Read more]

Even a better processor doesn’t always compensate. Generally music skips occur when the cycles you need aren’t there at that moment due to something else running.