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Running Your Own Station [message #71990] Tue, 03 April 2012 09:49 Go to next message
audioaudio90 is currently offline  audioaudio90
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Have you ever run a small independent radio station? Did you enjoy it? What was your broadcast radius, and how powerful did your transmitter need to be to get that radius?
Re: Running Your Own Station [message #72049 is a reply to message #71990] Sat, 07 April 2012 21:16 Go to previous message
gofar99 is currently offline  gofar99
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Hi, Actually two. One was FM from a college dorm and had legal input of 100 milliwatts. Effective range was about 500 feet, although in one direction that had fewer obstacles it went about 800 feet. The second station lasted about a week. We hungered for more range so I built an AM transmitter. It performed far better than expected. Confused It had about 25 watts input and ran a 1/4 wave end fed antenna. When one of our listeners said it came in just fine in the next town over (about 15 miles) we got kind of worried that some sort of government official would track us down (not all that hard) and do bad things to us. Rolling Eyes

Twas fun while it lasted though.


Good Listening
Bruce
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