Mark

Sorry to hear of the strict lockdown there….having to stay within 5 KLM of your home…wow. Hard to imagine they went that far. Yet Dea Matrona seem to be travelling around doing virtual shows from certain venues.

Anyways I don’t think I am a candidate for what you are locking for but in answer to your question there’s a few groups on Facebook…[Read more]

As of last night they were still there and after listening to the preacher for awhile it was finally announced that in “a few days” we will be off so Monday maybe.

When they are off I will see how quiet that spot is at night in Toronto. Should be good as it was a clear channel station. Hope if they come back it is somewhere else lower down on the…[Read more]

Understandable as components like capacitors change value at those temperatures. Assume you have the studio part with the input adjustment and modulation depth indoors.

-37 F  Wow! Fortunately that is not for more than a few days a year.

This transmitter is quite good if it has to get that cold for it to malfunction and then be fine when it…[Read more]

Here’s part 2 of the above

Try again with pictures less than 512 KB or post the link.

WOW! Hard to believe you could get that for not paying the license fee. I guess that includes rebroadcasting something without permission.
They hide things in a bill with something else to sneak it in unnoticed.
Insane. That’s like getting a jail term for going the wrong way on a one way street.

But do the property owners know what is legal or illegal broadcasting?
Do they know about part 15?
I’m willing to bet that in Canada 98% of the population doesn’t know what BETS-1 or RSS-210 is, or knows that you can broadcast legally under these regulations.
And most likely in the USA it’s similar.

The chicken wire
Shouldn’t affect you outside on a house next to you that much. May affect you from indoors getting out a little. Should be no different than a wire fence.
Tuning the capacitor to peak has to be done anytime something changes even a bit. Also the selector jumpers have to be the right selection for your frequency range.
If I…[Read more]

A few thoughts. As I understand the Spitfire has a red light on the front that indicates when you are peaked for max signal to the antenna…either it goes off or on? Maybe with your outside set up without a meter or voltmeter to actually see if you are peaked to max you don’t  know and you are getting less of a peak with your set up than you did…[Read more]

Please lets get along and be respectful of each other.

You must mean the SW-200 which I had and sold to Gerry at Procaster who is right here in Toronto, not too long ago. I am using the Procaster processor that comes with it and didn’t need the Schlockwood any more….too bad you didn’t need a short time ago. The studio works quite well and with an inexpensive 9 band EQ. There’s the modulation depth…[Read more]

Can you add to this? Don’t understand what you are talking about?

Oh also, the only way to have truly no ground is to run the Procaster on a 12 volt battery and a wired plug for the jack on the studio part, and a laptop running on the battery. No other processing.
I have yet to try that and see if it makes a difference in performance.

Agree Tim, about the digital. I don’t care one way or another as long as the band isn’t scrapped and end part 15 and it’s Canadian equivalent.

I think I mentioned before but I use the Procaster and get out nicely to the neighborhood just with a 22 gauge wire exactly 3 meters clipped to the antenna post indoors and no ground, nothing else…[Read more]