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Mark and All,

Happy New Year! Hope everyone is doing good. I am curious, who was the person busted with the Chez Procaster Transmitter you mentioned? What did they do? Was it in Canada or the United States? The Procaster and Rangemaster can not be modified. We remember the Ken Cartwright situation in Stayton, Oregon.

Mark, Sounds like what…[Read more]

Hi Mark and DJ,

In the United States, thanks to NPR, they want below 87.9. In radio world, they have been talking about the FCC letting these Franklin FMs on 88.7. I’m not sure about 76.1 to 79.9. There are no radios to tune that low here yet.

It is impossible to find open spots to run a Part 15 FM in urban or city areas here. These Translators…[Read more]

Rich,

I hope Mark sees this. There is no point to argue or debate about the laws of physics here.

My Consultant Engineer, who is now also a “FCC Field Enforcement Engineer” (under contract) says it’s now all politics in the United States. During the Trump Administration, look what Head Commissioner Ajit Pai did to the FM Band here. He made a…[Read more]

Hi Mark,

The manufacturer or person that is making the 100mw Spitfire Transmitter is making the Mosquito One Watt Transmitter. It’s built in the same box as the Spitfire.

The downfall of the Mosquito Transmitter is there is no way (atleast he didn’t tell me) to measure forward power or reflected VSWR power. I did email them some time back. He…[Read more]

I just logged back in today, October 4th, 2022 and saw Tim’s message. While everyone (In my opinion) has a opinion on programming content, I think we shouldn’t just give up on this board or throw the towel in just yet.

One thing I saw is Netherlands and Switzerland are allowing LPAM. In fact there is a person in the UK that is making a 1 Watt AM…[Read more]

Hi Rich,

I know within the past five years, at least during the Obama and Trump Administration, the top Commissioners have been approached about it. They don’t know anything.

It would take a FCC Attorney with studies done to present to the Audio Division’s Engineering Staff. I have met one of them. I know Mark hates me to bring up “politics”,…[Read more]

Rich,

Let me ask you this a simple question, if we or another party filled for a modification or amendment to 15.219, allowing the ground lead to exceed 3 meters (not the antenna) would you oppose it?

Hi Rich,

In this drawing you posted, it appears this this Dipole is to be 10 meters above the ground (the soil). It hit me this morning, could we could this down to 5 meters, which breaks it down to 16.4 feet. Or perhaps you can run in your software in theroy, we could go down a bit more to 4 meters, that’s 13 feet, 1.48 inches. This clears the…[Read more]

On the situation with Ken Cartwright, seems from what I read the FCC Field Agent, Mr. Nguyen was willing to help Ken make his operation legal, in fact, in one location where Ken Cartwright had a Hamilton Rangemaster in use, I take it Ken was using a metal roof for a group lead or attached the ground lead of the Hamilton Rangemaster to the metal…[Read more]

Hi Rich, and for Mark in Toronto,

There is that human side of me saying “don’t give up” there is a way. I believe we all feel that way.

I agree 100 percent, the Ferrite Filter Choke is not a switch, it is a filter to minimize field strength. I believe that was what Mr. Hamilton designed it for.

I look back to a article written on Wednesday,…[Read more]

Hi Rich,

I think maybe you have misunderstood where I was asking where to put the Ferrite Filter Choke at. I didn’t get a chance to read your full reply post, but this is what I was thinking to make it simple.

Let me reverse what to you what I had in mind to you. Let’s take the Chez Procaster. On the bottom on the metal box, it has a lug there…[Read more]

Hi Rich,

You are very correct on the ground conductivity! I know you worked many years for Harris (now Gates Air). In 1997, me and my Dad traveled to Quincy, Illinois and bought a Harris (Gates One) Solid State Transmitter. My Dad saw me beating my brains out, spending money on trying to keep a Collins 20V-3 Transmitter running.

We had a coil up…[Read more]

Hi Rich,

I’ve seen this chart before, but I needed to study it a bit. I fully understand what you chart is tell us. There is a large increase in field strength with a longer ground wire, even if we attach that wire to a ground rod 5 to 8 feet deep. My Consultant Engineer look at it and agrees as well.

One fact I wanted to ask you, wouldn’t…[Read more]

To Mark, Tim, and All You Good Folks,

I want to thank you all so much for your input!

Yes, Signal strength is only half of the problem. As I mentioned, severe thunderstorms are very much more common in the southeastern part of the United States than the northern border of the country, just my opinion.

The problem is here in the U.S. and I’m…[Read more]

To Mark, Tim, and All You Good Folks,

I want to thank you all so much for your input! Signal strength is only half of the problem. As I mentioned, severe thunderstorms are very much more common in the southeastern part of the United States than the northern border of the country, just my opinion.

The problem is here in the U.S. and I’m sure in…[Read more]

Mark,

I spoke with Bill Baker of Information Station Specialist, the manufacturer who bought the rights to the Talking House. They are a United States owned corporation. Radio World has done some articles on them. They also manufacturer antennas and transmitters for TIS Stations in the U.S. and Canada as well as now Emergency Antennas for…[Read more]