Mark

Here’s part 2 of the above

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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]

It’s not bad enough to be a constant tone but sounds like a singer with vibrato like an opera singer.
The Procaster has a fine frequency adjust plus or minus 10 hz but am waiting for a new frequency counter to actually see what I am doing. I know the crystal used has a tolerance of plus or minus 50 PPM which is how crystal tolerance is stated and…[Read more]