Mark

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]

Yeah!  Is that Timinbovey?

Agree 100% with Tim.
Worry more about the surge in the power supply.
The surge protector you use for your power to the Procaster, computer and any processing gear should not just have a light that tells you if the surge protection is working but if the surge protection is compromised the power bar should shut down instantly cutting power to your…[Read more]

Thanks Rich!
Seems if more attractive things around like trees you lessen the risk also.
To get up and running, from the middle to late Sept. to middle of May in the northern half of the USA and Canada thunderstorm season is past so just set up and go and worry about it next spring after April.

Here’s a good article

Lightning protection for antennas

A bit about lightning here. It says that lightning will strike from cloud to earth and look for the easiest path to earth. So don’t understand how the transmitter mounted on the ground with a metal stake deep in the ground will be protected? You have…[Read more]

Looks nice!

Well, welcome to the world of hobby broadcasting. Too bad about your station.
Yeah, you are better off having a lot of things near you that lightning would prefer to hit.

Post 3 on this.
Ask Timinbovey on this forum about this as he uses a Procaster on a tower with no ground as I understand and he can give you good info on this subject. I think he has been running this for 7 years? Forget what he said, but he hasn’t had a lightning strike that he has ever mentioned.

To add to my post I forgot even with no ground you still have the power and audio cable into the house and a path for lightning to come into the house through that to electrical ground but I was told that the connections from the studio to the transmitter has the shield connected on the transmitter side but not at the studio and asked what it’s…[Read more]