Lefty Gomez

Ok gang I am going to give you the low down on this product .

But first let me make a few ground rules.

Ok gang I am going to give you the low down on this product .

But first let me make a few ground rules.

Please no arguments on the is it legal or not stuff. We have been down that Road and all it does is get people upset.

It is FCC Certified and thus I feel it is perfectly legal to use.

The Talking house ATU is built to give more range on the Talking house Transmitters.

So does it work ?

I posted pictures a while back of my installation and have made some small changes to stay within FCC compliance.

When I first installed the ATU I was running a ground from the ATU to a grounding Rod that is eight feet in to the earth.

I have since removed the ground.

The ATU is as simple as it get’s to setup.
Hook it up to the ATU and tune it , It takes about five mins to do this.

One thing that I feel is a rip off on the ATU is the price to ship.
They just plain over charge to ship the unit.

As for range , My ATU is 16 feet off the ground on the roof of my house.

With the Wire Antenna my TH get’s out about 1/4 mile.
With the ATU I have seen my signal go as far as two miles and more.
It is solid at one mile and is getting better as winter come’s on.

The ATU works and it works very good.
All the worries I had with it’s cost were removed once I started testing.

Now I don’t want to tell you that there are not more affordable ways to get this range.
In fact I feel that an SSTrans 5000 with a good Antenna will get out better than the ATU system.

But for cost VS Install and setup the Talking House system is hard to beat.
When you consider the fact that you can buy a Talking house transmitter on ebay for under $50.00 and the cost of an ATU is about $350.00 with shipping I think you have a very cost effective system that can do very well for a Part15 station.

For under $500.00 you can have a Radio Station that will cover at least .5 miles.
And with a good install perhaps over two miles.

Over all I feel the Talking House system is a very good value and a very good way to get started with broadcasting.

After having my ATU running for two months I feel it is worth the money I spent on it.
So even though I felt the shipping was a rip off , I still feel the ATU was worth it in the long run.

I am not good at doing reviews , but I wanted to share my thoughts with anyone looking to get into Part15 Broadcasting.
You can get started for very little money and still have a good signal.

Best of luck and I hope this helped.