Mark

Of all the songs in my era maybe 1 out of every hundred is “bad” in my mind so out of all of them only a very few fall into the “don’t like for content category” 99% of the others are good and those few won’t be missed.
Some songs the meaning isn’t straight forward and a lot of interpretation is needed and 10 people my have a different idea of the…[Read more]

Itcycoo Park was about a guy telling his girlfriend to skip school and school is for fools anyway and we’ll go to the park and take drugs.
Brown Sugar is about slavery and one slaver who’s a real cool guy whipping and raping his slave girl and his son getting his too.
I won’t play songs like this.
These are just two examples. A song doesn’t have…[Read more]

To add… certain songs that are about not good things like “Brown Sugar” by the Stones or “Itchycoo Park” Small Faces for example and some others will never by played on my station.

They’d sure like mine. Nothing bad there….well mostly all family clean. A few songs are adult content like “Lightning Strikes” by Lou Christie but it’s in a different way.
There’s also “Steamy Windows” by Tina Turner, same example. But that’s not at all what Legacy is referring to. No place for swearing, vulgarity, or other stuff like that on radio.

The 100 klz spacing would allow for a while lot more stations but I assume not as good fidelity.

Surprised as I always though those were approved with number. On the label or something. Guess they all aren’t.

I don’t think that RFCC Lebanon was encouraging operation in excess of part 15.239 just reporting on a few models of off the shelf car plug in FM transmitters people would get to here an MP3 player in the car which I’m sure have the FCC # on it. He did not say they were modified in any way. Just saying which one worked the best. Although 225 feet…[Read more]

Radio Joe has some great points. Becoming activists could backfire and you could loose what there is now.
Like no listeners and no complaints!
But a subsection to part 15 would be good to allow the equivalent of BETS-1(Canada) on FM.
I think Michelle Bradley, REC president, write to the FCC about that.
But the stats show that radio does quite well…[Read more]

Yeah that would be nice.

@ Rich Powers, I volunteered to be a moderator when admin posted moderators wanted a short time ago and I am not officially moderator yet but have the controls at my end to see how it works. The last post about the link to the HB review of the ground loop isolator got flagged and sent to me for moderation, that’s what happened. Don’t know why as I…[Read more]

What about looking inside the radioshack one to see what’s inside without breaking it?

I personally have found that if I get hum and buzz on the carrier when listening on air with no audio(I am on FM in Canada), there’s two reasons. Either the power supply to the transmitter or compressor(all aren’t equal) or changing the position of the audio…[Read more]

Here’s something for you….https://www.jensen-transformers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CI-2RR.pdf

I found this which may be of interest but I personally can’t answer what determines the pass through frequency of a ground loop isolator.

https://www.epanorama.net/documents/groundloop/audio_isolator_building.html

But if the radioshack one works good than don’t worry about why! Get a few extras and then take apart one to see what’s there.

Nice variety.

Yes, that’s what I noted too that it can be used for part 15.221.
From what I have learned from all the time I have been on these forums leaky cable is a type of cable strung over an area that is specially made to radiate along the length, unlike shielded coax, while carrier current uses the power lines. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Some of these transmitters that say zero to so many watts isn’t gradual but by increments. It could go to zero but then go in jumps of 1 or two watts at a time to the max. Best bet to use this and be legal as per part 15 is to contact ISS and ask. Most importantly is the power continuously adjustable and how does a user know what the setting is or…[Read more]

Wow! Looked at the manual and it sure is a complex array of controls. If it can operate at 100mW it’s like rocket science(well not quite) to do it and I couldn’t tell from the complex set up how to adjust power at all. Or how you know what it is. Guess you could also just use a wire directly to the antenna connection.
Best thing is to call…[Read more]