No, its different from the one DC sells. Its got no name on it, and I suspect it came out of some very nice equipment. The heat sink is very large, 4x3x3 inches, and from memory, its a watt or 5 watts out, or maybe more. I got it off Ebay, do a search for fm transmitter.
Best thing about it is its very clean in output, and high power. It seems to be a good commercial piece of equipment, not a kit or hobby type thing. I use a small digital FM receiver to listen around the property, and my transmitter does better than strong FM band stations in that receiver. I made an antenna out of a pl259 female chassis mount and coat hangers, in the ground plane configuration. its mounted to a vent pipe on my roof, well below the peak of the roof. The ramsy kit on the same antenna had dead spots, and did not go more than a few houses away on the car radio. I have not tried the range of the new transmitter past about 500 feet, but it was fine that far out. Brett N2DTS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Carling Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 11:57 AM To: Discussion of AM Radio Subject: RE: [AMRadio] NPR, one solution for lousy radio On 13 Nov 2004 at 21:52, Brett gazdzinski wrote: > I got a real nice 1 watt synthesized transmitter with a digital > frequency readout, nice stereo separation and good fidelity. > With an outside antenna, it goes blocks, never tried to figure > out just how far. > 1 watt with a good antenna should go miles. > > I tried cordless headphones, the ramsey stuff, and other FM > transmitter kits, and the range was lousy. > I like to wander around while listening, go out back of the house and > smoke, > make some tea, etc (plenty of old buzzards on the air!). > > The transmitter was about $100.00 but its very well made, and very > clean. > Its not a kit, and has a very large heat sink. > It has no case, just the display mounted on a circuit board, > you push buttons to change frequency and other options, the back > of the board holds the heat sink. > > There used to be a lot of the same things on ebay, I have not looked > lately. > > A cordless mike with some sort of remote keying of the transmitter would > be > cool, > you could be out mowing the lawn and on the air... > > Brett > N2DTS Brett - is this the same thing as the DC Electronics one? Or who makes it? Where do we get one? ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net
