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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2018 23:25:14 GMT
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Post by part15engineer on Mar 12, 2018 1:11:13 GMT
i know Dombrowski, he used to be out of Langhorn PA when they were still in operation. he busted oldies 107.7 Glen Gardner, NJ (my old neighborhood) about a decade (or more) ago.
and the conclusion to be drawn from that site is obviously stay away from FM!!!
i didn't see any AM actions as far back as 2016 but plenty of FM actions!!!
edit: as a side note it does not look very good on the alpb or do our cause any good to have members getting FM NOUO's
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 21:51:40 GMT
Tight Wire Balancing Act
Part15 Engineer says: "As a side note it does not look very good on the alpb or do our cause any good to have members getting FM NOUO's.
Under the able leadership of MRAM during the first 5-years, the ALPB has taken the position that we represent legal low power operation in all parts of the world, but at the same time we are not an enforcement organization that checks up on members or reports "suspicious" activity.
We have taken the stand that every radio station has a relationship with the government agencies which is between them.
The NOUO in this situation did not name or blame the ALPB in any way, and the ALPB is not here to "scold" or "humiliate" members who run into trouble over their stations.
The question to ask is "To whom doesn't it look good" if an ALPB member has a problem? Are those outsiders important enough to worry about? If we don't know who they are we can't easily count them into our way of doing things.
Troy is good people and now has an inside track with two FCC agents who are supportive of hobby radio!
It's a good thing!
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Post by thelegacy on Mar 12, 2018 22:17:36 GMT
I spoke with David on the phone. He said he heard my recordings of the radio station that the agent that visited me sent him. He also heard my voicemail messages stating how I wasn't planning on every using FM again.
I spoke with him about AM part 15 Broadcasting in the only thing he had a problem with was people who tried to put their transmitter on a 30-story building and run a long ground lead all the way to the ground. He did bring that up to me but when I was talking about the range to the Deltaville Market being one of the quarter mile he said that you could do between 1 and 2 miles with a legal set up.
He did thank me for my concerns of the interference and is far as me shutting down right away he thanked me for that as well as the fact that I myself wanted to give up the transmitter without them even asking for it. I told him if I can't use it I don't want it. He was happy to hear about my willingness to make sure that I'm using a clean transmitter.
I hope to get this talking sign transmitter very soon my wife and I are working really hard towards this. I'll have some of the money this month and I'll probably have the rest next month so I am really saving and putting everything I have towards the transmitter.
Keep in mind being legally blind I'm going to have to have someone help me to put the pole up the transmitter on the pole and someone to climb and tune it. I'm hoping everything goes without a hitch and that it won't take too long.
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2018 22:46:49 GMT
I agree with most of what Carl said. Troy is also to be commended in wanting to continue with legal, Part 15 AM broadcasting.
And yes, the ALPB is not an enforcement agency.
However, I always saw part of the role of the ALPB was to promote low power broadcasting. Promote as in promote to everyone, not just ourselves.
A low power broadcaster running afoul of the authorities is just as damaging in terms of public relations as a high power, potentially licensed one (and I've heard plenty of complaints about the latter over the years).
The last thing we should want is for all low power broadcasting to be considered pirate broadcasting in the eyes of the general public.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2018 1:06:56 GMT
So-Called Public Relations
There are college courses and specialists in the area of "public relations" and by now they have dug a hole in which they reside with little actual contact with any real "public".
I myself have been attached to several "public relations departments" and carried out assignments intended to give the perceived public a good impression of whatever it was we were doing.
For the most part this involved preventing them (the public) from knowing anything that might go against our holy image. It meant the correct amount of puffery to make us overblown in our glory.
Here in the little world of LEGAL low power radio the ALPB has done a magnificently detailed job of etching out our ethical, moral, reliable, honest and dependable attention to absolute adherence to the rules.
Therefore any residual fears that we might be judged based on some particular members "slip-up" enters the realm of paranoia and is a waste of energy.
At the present time the ALPB maintains its World Headquarters in a country that has descended into a fascist regime with racist, misogynist, anti-intellectual elements and ecologically lethal policies, yet we set it aside by simply banning mention of it.
It doesn't take much to command a top position... a slogan will do the job!
The ALPB - "All Things To Some People"
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Post by jimhenry2000 on Mar 13, 2018 2:54:16 GMT
Troy it does sound like you are now trying to do the right thing and you are conveying that well to the FCC agents. You are to be commended for that. I spoke with David on the phone. He said he heard my recordings of the radio station that the agent that visited me sent him. He also heard my voicemail messages stating how I wasn't planning on every using FM again. I spoke with him about AM part 15 Broadcasting in the only thing he had a problem with was people who tried to put their transmitter on a 30-story building and run a long ground lead all the way to the ground. He did bring that up to me but when I was talking about the range to the Deltaville Market being one of the quarter mile he said that you could do between 1 and 2 miles with a legal set up. He did thank me for my concerns of the interference and is far as me shutting down right away he thanked me for that as well as the fact that I myself wanted to give up the transmitter without them even asking for it. I told him if I can't use it I don't want it. He was happy to hear about my willingness to make sure that I'm using a clean transmitter. I hope to get this talking sign transmitter very soon my wife and I are working really hard towards this. I'll have some of the money this month and I'll probably have the rest next month so I am really saving and putting everything I have towards the transmitter. Keep in mind being legally blind I'm going to have to have someone help me to put the pole up the transmitter on the pole and someone to climb and tune it. I'm hoping everything goes without a hitch and that it won't take too long. |
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Post by Druid Hills Radio on Mar 13, 2018 17:17:53 GMT
Had Ken in Oregon been nicer he would have still been on with his Part 15 station. IMHO.
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2018 18:29:16 GMT
I'm wondering where you're going to purchase a Talking Sign - unless you get it on the used market (and they're hard to find), they've been discontinued for years, replaced by the ProCaster.
If you can find one, the Talking Sign is a good choice. I found it got about the same range as the ProCaster (many of the components are the same, mine even had the same tuning meter as the ProCaster I had purchased). Sound quality was better than the unmodified Talking House; not as good as the ProCaster or Rangemaster, but it can be improved markedly with audio processing. Plus it's built like a tank.
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Post by thelegacy on Mar 14, 2018 5:28:15 GMT
Well I'm trying to get the money before that transmitter is gone. I've been talking to the dude via email. I trust this dude because well he's very trustworthy.
I'm also getting an antenna built for it. But if I can't get the antenna built for it I may just use a Firestik CB antenna. Keep in mind they have a 7-foot fire stick. So with that I should be able to have a 3-foot ground.
I'm very excited about it to tell you the truth. I can't afford $800 for a brand new procaster so this is probably going to have to be about the best I can do.
I could always buy a 12-volt 3-prong power supply and then I'd have the house ground for a ground. After all that's what the talking house does. But I would make sure it was a well regulated power supply.
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Post by Boomer on Mar 14, 2018 10:35:37 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen a Talking Sign, must be from before I was in the Part-15 field on line, and I didn't know much about what commercial transmitters were like, just kits.
Always some newbee coming into the scene..
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Post by part15engineer on Mar 14, 2018 14:21:32 GMT
i'm not sure the loading on that talking sign will tune up a 7ft helical CB whip. it was designed to load up a 3m wire or steel 102" CB whip.
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Post by Admin on Mar 14, 2018 17:15:18 GMT
The Talking Sign was manufactured in the early 2000's by the company that eventually became Chez Radio (and made the ProCaster).
It was similar to the Talking House, but much more ruggedly constructed, and didn't have the many quality problems the Talking House had (has). It was also physically smaller, as tuning was manual, as opposed to the flaky automatic tuning of the Talking House.
The internal tuning is designed to work with a 102 inch wire or whip - I doubt that it will tune a CB antenna. It also had a jack for an external 50 ohm antenna. Talking House sold an ATU that plugged into this jack, but they never got it certified for use in Canada (or the U.S., as far as I'm aware). The Talking Sign is RSS210 (Canada) and Part 15 (U.S.) certified. The Talking House is only Part 15 certified.
In many ways, the Talking Sign is very similar to the ProCaster, and shares parts. Range is on a par with the ProCaster if installed side by side. The ProCaster sounds better, and you can improve that sound even more with its internal sound processing. To make the Talking Sign sound decent, you do need external processing. I don't think there's as much 'headroom' in the Talking Sign, as I couldn't get it to sound quite as loud as the ProCaster.
Price wise, the Talking Sign was quite expensive in its day. If you can find one, now a days they should be priced on a par with the Talking House, or maybe a bit more (because they are a better quality transmitter).
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Post by Druid Hills Radio on Mar 14, 2018 17:52:07 GMT
. The internal tuning is designed to work with a 102 inch wire or whip - I doubt that it will tune a CB antenna. Waxing sarcastic at the Admin's expense: A 102 inch whip is a CB antenna LOL! |
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