Post by Boomer on Mar 16, 2020 0:11:21 GMT
Conducive
Maybe ground conductivity in different areas has something to do with it, PA and NEO, and where I live it's rated 2-3, poor conductivity, and signals just don't travel as well.
I'm still surprised how well a low power station can get out in any case. At one time would laugh at putting up a serious Part-15 station, thinking it was just for teens with a phono oscillator or Radio Shack broadcast kit wanting to be DJs, then to be left behind in youth.
Later I read an article in an electronics magazine, like Elementary Electronics, and they did the whole deal with the pipe antenna and loading coil with the transmitter at the base. I don't think it was shown, but it was described as an install they did, and they got a half mile, which got me to get a map out and make a circle on it to see what my coverage would be and start dreaming.
That was the first system that actually tried to do more, and someone actually got into the engineering of it. Everything I'd seen before that was a loopstick with a tuning capacitor and a short piece of wire hanging off of it inside of a room, little attempt made at matching the wire.
Bomar (like the crystal company:)
Maybe ground conductivity in different areas has something to do with it, PA and NEO, and where I live it's rated 2-3, poor conductivity, and signals just don't travel as well.
I'm still surprised how well a low power station can get out in any case. At one time would laugh at putting up a serious Part-15 station, thinking it was just for teens with a phono oscillator or Radio Shack broadcast kit wanting to be DJs, then to be left behind in youth.
Later I read an article in an electronics magazine, like Elementary Electronics, and they did the whole deal with the pipe antenna and loading coil with the transmitter at the base. I don't think it was shown, but it was described as an install they did, and they got a half mile, which got me to get a map out and make a circle on it to see what my coverage would be and start dreaming.
That was the first system that actually tried to do more, and someone actually got into the engineering of it. Everything I'd seen before that was a loopstick with a tuning capacitor and a short piece of wire hanging off of it inside of a room, little attempt made at matching the wire.
Bomar (like the crystal company:)
