Mark

Reply to Horatio…If we hobbyists want listeners we have to make it easy for them. No one any age even if they like and would listen to your station will go out and buy or get from Amazon a radio if they don’t have one, or get a better one then they have. As our micro powered signal goes the range we get is determined by the receiver quality. If…[Read more]

Starting a new topic….go to the forums list of categories and find the closest category for the topic you want to start. Then scroll down to the bottom of the posts and you will see the place to start the new topic.
I guess longwave broadcasting could just be in general discussion? If it was me I guess that’s where I’d put it.

Well, you are half right. Here in Canada it’s a privilege also not a right. We have non-broadcasting and broadcasting. I gave a summary in my post about a Procaster user getting shut down. But with BETS-1 where you can broadcast to the public with no confined border we are free to make it known we are there. You are not supposed to be competing…[Read more]

They use phones as MP3 players and either have their own stuff or get Spotify and pay for “apps”
With my “station” here I advertise it in a web site called Nextdoor which is a site for neighbors to communicate with each other and I say that I will give anyone a radio in range that wants to be a listener or needs a better one. Maybe the USA has a…[Read more]

Don’t care about the grammer as long as I know what you are saying! I hate that red line and ignore it now.
Yeah, that would be a good idea to mention in the manual about Canada’s broadcasting and nonbroadcasting and state that the Procaster is approved for public areas with a confined border and not to use multiple transmitters for more coverage.…[Read more]

Yeah I agree. There are stores here in Toronto that still carry radios,  2001 Audio Video, Radioworld, Golden Electronics, Even Home Hardware carries the Panasonic RF 2400 in store but for the most part you have to go to Amazon and there is all kinds and of course Ebay.
But also most large stores like “big box” stores all don’t want to be there…[Read more]

You are absolutely right. The CRTC doesn’t allow multiple transmitters with each transmitter simulcasting the same thing. That could have been it too.
Yes also for BETS-1 unlicensed stations there’s nothing religious, political, allowed and also everything has to originate with you. For example you can’t reboadcast something from another source…[Read more]

I don’t know the whole story. Gerry at Procaster who I keep in touch with told me this and only knew what the user told him. Could have been a licensed station complaining as he had 3 Procasters up and running, maybe to cover more ground, who knows. This was in Manitoba and other than Winnipeg and Brandon all other communities are large to small…[Read more]

They say the electronics cause so much interference it completely wipes it out and the engineers won’t spend the money and time to shield it as it will add to the cost of the car and no one cares enough. Only public backlash will get them to change it. Some other makes don’t leave it out.

I am not a consultant engineer in any way! But the tittle sounds nice.
The Procaster with the 104″ antenna leaves you 14″ for a ground lead, not 3″.
Interesting about what the agent said about the ground lead and the copper stake not making any difference except for lightning protection.
Just make sure that the Procaster is mounted on top of the…[Read more]

You and I and everyone knows this will never happen. The New Zealand model allows for 1 watt ERP  unlicensed but you just have to be registered with your location and frequency and no protection if someone interferes with you. You can have any antenna and location as long as you don’t exceed 1 watt radiated power from the antenna. They have from…[Read more]

The forums are dead I know. I have stated my ideas as to why but that is up for discussion.
I think it’s great you have an FCC agent as a consultant engineer! You can’t go wrong there.
Nice you are getting good range. The radio itself can be the source of the muddy sound if the band width is too narrow. Radios do this as narrowing the bandwidth…[Read more]

Can’t argue there. Is the Netherlands and Switzerland allowing the 1 watt license free?
That’s the Spitfire or the Hurricane right? The one in the UK?

I know it takes a long time to load and again I don’t know why your post gets flagged for moderation.
! approved it.
I am just moderator and I have no control over this.
I can only say sorry on behave of the forum. It will be sad to se you leave but I hear you about the forum being dead as I feel the same way.

Mark

Great advertising for the Procaster!
I wonder if Gerry at Procaster sees this? I’m sure he will be pleased.
I use this transmitter also and it is great.
As for this site and others I can only assume as you….everything rolls along fine, everything has been talked about, no one including myself can think of a new topic.
Over at hobbybroadcaster…[Read more]

Had to delete a post that was a senseless array of letters that didn’t say anything.

This must be an old post I don’t remember posting. But to Fred, can you explain what you just posted here before I delete it?

Cool Artisan! I want to run episodes of suspense theater every night at 10PM with 2 half hour episodes till 11pm but still trying to find out how to get Play It Live to do it all automated at that time a and pick two at random from that group and go back to regular “programing” after the two play.

Anyways right now at 2:37 PM April 29 “We Belong…[Read more]