I disagree Paul. I can pick up my home "talking house" transmitter about
1/2 mile away and I have heard some as far away as one mile, but I would
classify those as DX signals. Usually when someone gets out more than
that they have suped up the transmitter to exceed the regulations. One
of the ways they exceed the regulations is to put the transmitter up in
the air and have a long lead to the traans
Bill
Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
Not true Bill, Part 15's can get out more then a 1/4 mile if you have good
ground conductivity, good processing and a good ground.
Paul
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Bill Harms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Pete, given the coverage area that you describe, this sounds like an
illegal operation which is violating Part 15. A Part 15 station should not
get out much more than 1/4 of a mile. I operate a part 15 station out of my
home (a talking house transmitter). It does not get out more than 200 or 300
feet from my house with a listenable signal. I use it for playing old time
radio programs so I can listen to them on my old pre-WWII tube Philcos.
Bill Harms
http://philcobill.com
Pete Taylor wrote:
Several months ago, I picked up a Part 15 station, Browns Point Radio, on
1700kHz, and naturally, tracked it. I live in NE Tacoma; Browns Point is to
my west and is home of the beloved KKMO-1360 transmitter. Coverage on 1700
was pretty spotty, and in fact, did not even include all of Browns Point. At
night, from home, the station deferred to the XE near San Diego. Recently,
they have jacked up the power significantly. I heard it in Wright Park in
downtown Tacoma, along the Schuster Parkway and even on highway 509 where
KHHO's harmonic used to dominate.
Today the station did a 1pm ID and went in to an IRN newscast which over a
five-minute period, contained two national advertiser commercials. I found
this somewhat unique and just wondered if Part 15 stations could legally
carry ads.
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