rock95seven

You all know I have been broadcasting on Fm for quite a while now.

You all know I have been broadcasting on Fm for quite a while now.

I have loved every minute of it, but with all the recent Nouo’s issued nearly every month I am re-thinking my broadcasting options.

My choice to use Fm for my part 15 operations was basically out of necessity and convenience. The main reasons : Fm is plug n play, the antenna if you use any at all is easier to setup and just about every listener out there prefers FM over Am.

I actually like both am & fm, heck i like silly sideband too. USB or LSB it does not matter to me. Anyways, back to the subject at hand.
FM is getting way too much bad publicity lately, mostly with the FCC.
As we all know most of the NOUO’s issued have been for FM operators running anywhere from 1 mW to 100’s of watts.

The 1 mW NOUO is a shocker to me, but hey there it is in black and white.
My funds are squeezed to the point my wallet looks like it was run over by a Steamroller, so a fine or NOUO just won’t do. Even if i had thousand’s of dollars in the bank, i still would not want trouble with the fcc.
So to avoid taking anymore risks I will be working on switching out the SStran fed into reversed coax for a bottom loaded antenna and placing the fm on the reversed coax or just shortening the whip antenna that came with my Ramsey FM 25b.

I have had trouble with one of the Talking House transmitters so I am thinking about placing the SSTran in a watertight tupperware container and using the motor driven ferrite coils from the old TH to help tune the antenna to my frequency.

This should eliminate any chance of a NOUO etc.
Limiting the FM to the house and just a few feet from my Faraday cage home should do the trick nicely. I could have used the Scosche transmitter for FM, but unfortunetly it doesn’t have any open frequencies I could transmit on and replacing the batteries every other day is a real pain in the neck.

At any rate, I will keep everyone posted on my progress.
Until then, Keep Rockin’