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Real Free Radio AM610 / AM1620 @RealFreeRadio@staging.brighteon.social
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- Real Free Radio!
- Part 15 AM Broadcasting
INFO page for Part 15 operated stations AM610 and AM1620, as well as affiliated stations. A weekly postings of what's up on-air with us to our listeners, as well as how-to's on FCC, Part 15, permissible broadcasting, as well as links, PIC's and various INFO.
Member since Jun 2024
About
- Real Free Radio!
- Part 15 AM Broadcasting
INFO page for Part 15 operated stations AM610 and AM1620, as well as affiliated stations. A weekly postings of what's up on-air with us to our listeners, as well as how-to's on FCC, Part 15, permissible broadcasting, as well as links, PIC's and various INFO.
Member since Jun 2024
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The 1st full weekend of September looks like will bring some rain, albeit not that much to break this continued Drought conditions in SW West Virginia. Anyway, this weekend, from Friday evening, September 6th, through Sunday September 8th, on Real Free Radio, AM610 / AM1620, and our Auxiliary Station 49.870MHz FM, (Get that on any scanner radio!)? Yep... Back to WTSQ-LP 88.1FM, direct link, from Friday evening and all-day Saturday. https://wtsq.org/ And then, right after Jamie-Lee's, Radio Smut, (Now, ending at midnight.), it is back to Radio U for most of Sunday. https://radiou.com/ Then, wind-down the weekend with Big Band Sunday Night, with our link to Zoomer Radio. https://www.zoomerradio.ca/ , https://www.zoomerradio.ca/programs/big-band-sunday-night/ Then, Monday - Friday, it's back to your only on-air source for Infowars in WV. (That we know of...) https://www.infowars.com/ We, are still working on a safer way for you to contact us. If you are already a member of Brighteon,Social, then you are all set to do so. Other-wise, we are trying to find something for non-members. In other news??? Plan on working on assembling the newer antenna for AM1620, for planned installation in October. Stay safe! Stay healthy! Pray hard! THANKS, for listening!
WTSQ 88.1 FM - The Status Quo
Charleston, WV's free-form community radio station. The station broadcasts a variety of genre themed shows, local news & events, along with remote broadcasts from the city.
wtsq.orgCollege Radio Day 2024 is coming up on Friday, October 4 and we would like to humbly suggest that it would be a wonderful time to host a screening of 35000 Watts! Even better, we’re offering a 50% discount off the performance fee for screenings held on Oct 4 – 6. You can sell as many tickets as you want or accept donations with no additional fees, so it makes a great fundraiser for your radio station!
If you are interested in hosting a screening, it is super easy, just click here to get started: https://www.35000watts.com/book-a-screening-of-35000-watts/
If you are a fan of college radio and want to see the film with other like-minded folks, contact your local station or independent theater and ask them to host a screening. They are a lot of fun!
Thanks as always for your support and long live college radio!
– The 35000 Watts Team
FWR local INFO, for Early August 2024, from our own, Lady Stranger. THANKS!!!!!
OOOOOOOPS!!!!! The WTSQ-LP 9TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY is, this weekend. https://www.wtsq.org/ So, ENCORE WTSQ-LP 88.1FM for 2 1/2-day, again this weekend, Friday evening 7/19/2024 - Sunday 7/21/2024. Sorry... But, ENJOY!!!!!! Meet some of the WTSQ-LP air personality.
Let’s now focus upon what we call our Auxiliary Station on the Frequency of 49.870MHz, in
NBFM, (Narrow Band FM), mode. Now, you may remember using 49MHz as toy Walkie-Talkies in
the 1970’s and 1980’s, as kids, or those headset units that were sold by Maxon and Radio Shack, some
of those with multiple channels. Then, 49MHz had a huge boost in the 80’s – 90’s via Cordless Phone
use. The handsets didn’t really reach that far, like maybe 1⁄2 a mile, but the 46MHz bases, with a 1 meter
long whip antenna, could reach a couple of miles to those with a good outdoor scanner antenna. Then,
49MHz mainly fell to the realm of Baby Monitors, in the 1990’s. They’ve even made 49MHz wireless
headphone audio extender, albeit pretty rare to find today. Anyway, bottom-line is that 49MHz Part 15
is still valid for use today. So, as yet another Part 15 Loop-Hole, we utilize it. I’ve also written about it
here, https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,107990.0.html Other-wise, there does not
seem to be that much INFO on 49MHz usage today, as there was over a decade ago. I like the story
where one dude uses a baby Monitor to listen to his scanner audio. Boomer The Dog, of WAG AM690,
asked me, in early 1/2023, if I was using 49MHz today. I was about a decade earlier, when Cordless
Phone and Baby Monitors, still populated the band. However, totally silent today. So, why not use it?
Audio is telephone-like, but at night 49MHz doesn’t suffer from distant stations’ interference. Here's PIC's of the Safety 2011 tapped Baby Monitor.
49MHz Part 15 re-re-visited? Still usable, today.
49MHz Part 15 re-re-visited? Still usable, today.
www.hfunderground.comAdditional: 49.870MHz FM is an audio-tapped, Safety-brand, Baby Monitor. Audio is very telephone-like in quality, thus not hi-fi at all. Then again, scanner radios are not hi-fi either. Range??? It all depends upon what the receiving station is using. A portable scanner, with duckie antenna, can hear it for about 1/4 mile MAX. However, a scanner radio, with an outside base antenna, has the potential to hear this for a couple of miles, day, or night. So, when AM610 / AM1620, get interference from nighttime distant stations, 49.870MHz FM excels here. The Safety-brand Baby Monitor has great harmonic suppression, where the 2nd harmonic at 99.74MHz, only goes about 25ft. Actual RF Power Output? Unknown, and the spec's do not say, but as a guess, it's less than 10 milliwatts. BTW, most Amateur Radio, 6 meter, (50MHz), radios can also receive this. Who knows, maybe even you have an old Baby Monitor receiver unit that can tune-in to 49.870MHz. Recycle, reuse, eh??? The outside, 1 meter-long, antenna is shown with older AM1620 copper antenna, prior to the 4/2/2024 storms.
Let’s now focus upon AM610, an AM Carrier-Current station, where we couple into the power lines, as permissible via FCC Part 15 Rules. https://www.hobbybroadcaster.net/resources/carrier-current-AM-broadcasting.php You, may remember Carrier-Current Broadcasting from college radio. There are still a couple of stations doing so, like WPPJ in Pittsburgh, PA. https://wppjradio.com/ Our carrier-current experiment started in the mid-1980’s, where I coupled a cheap AM radio’s local-oscillator to the Neutral of our house wiring and discovered that the signal could be heard over 300ft away, down the power lines. That project went up in smoke, literally! And, scrapped until April 1991, where we bought the Panaxis Productions, from Ernest Wilson, the AM-100, 100 milliwatts AM transmitter kit. (Still have...) Coupling to the power lines was crude, at best, until I was able to obtain, first a JOY Mine-shaft COMM’s coupler, (Sent to Boomer of WAG AM690.), then a Radio Systems, CP-15 Coupler, (Using that presently.), and an LPB, Inc., T-8. Our transmitter now is an older PLL.gr 0-20 watt transmitter kit, bought an assembled in 2015. AM610 is using the James R. Cunningham method of Neutral-Injecting, with a ½ watt carrier. Our signal, today, only travels +/- ¼ mile, due to newly installed power transformers in our neighborhood. So, AM610 is pretty much a glorified STL, (Studio to Transmitter Link), to feed AM1620’s audio. Next, plan to cover Auxiliary Station 49.870MHz FM.
Want to roll-your-own AM Carrier-Current Station, from an AM transmitter that made for 50 Ohm antenna impedance output? Boomer, of station WAG AM690, up by Pittsburgh, PA reminds us of this simplified Carrier-Current Coupler circuit. What a Carrier-Current Coupler is essentially a type of antenna tuner, used to match a 50 Ohm transmitter to very low impedance's, of like 10 Ohms and less. However, if you were to apply these to HOT AC power lines, then that have to pass the RF that were want to transfer to these lines, yet block the high voltage AC, on the lines, from backing into your transmitter. Thus, why the Coupling Capacitors and fuse. (BTW, they also help protect your station in the event of a power line lightning hit. THANK YOU BOOMER!!!!! And BTW, we are in the process of a Ye Poor man's AM Carrier-Current Coupler, with parts that most likely, you already have. More, later! Happy Juneteenth, and watch that HOT weather and T-storms!
Let’s now focus upon AM610, an AM Carrier-Current station, where we couple into the power lines, as permissible via FCC Part 15 Rules. https://www.hobbybroadcaster.net/resources/carrier-current-AM-broadcasting.php You, may remember Carrier-Current Broadcasting from college radio. There are still a couple of stations doing so, like WPPJ in Pittsburgh, PA. https://wppjradio.com/ Our carrier-current experiment started in the mid-1980’s, where I coupled a cheap AM radio’s local-oscillator to the Neutral of our house wiring and discovered that the signal could be heard over 300ft away, down the power lines. That project went up in smoke, literally! And, scrapped until April 1991, where we bought the Panaxis Productions, from Ernest Wilson, the AM-100, 100 milliwatts AM transmitter kit. (Still have...) Coupling to the power lines was crude, at best, until I was able to obtain, first a JOY Mine-shaft COMM’s coupler, (Sent to Boomer of WAG AM690.), then a Radio Systems, CP-15 Coupler, (Using that presently.), and an LPB, Inc., T-8. Our transmitter now is an older PLL.gr 0-20 watt transmitter kit, bought an assembled in 2015. AM610 is using the James R. Cunningham method of Neutral-Injecting, with a ½ watt carrier. Our signal, today, only travels +/- ¼ mile, due to newly installed power transformers in our neighborhood. So, AM610 is pretty much a glorified STL, (Studio to Transmitter Link), to feed AM1620’s audio. Next, plan to cover Auxiliary Station 49.870MHz FM.
Let’s now focus upon AM610, an AM Carrier-Current station, where we couple into the power lines, as permissible via FCC Part 15 Rules. https://www.hobbybroadcaster.net/resources/carrier-current-AM-broadcasting.php You, may remember Carrier-Current Broadcasting from college radio. There are still a couple of stations doing so, like WPPJ in Pittsburgh, PA. https://wppjradio.com/ Our carrier-current experiment started in the mid-1980’s, where I coupled a cheap AM radio’s local-oscillator to the Neutral of our house wiring and discovered that the signal could be heard over 300ft away, down the power lines. That project went up in smoke, literally! And, scrapped until April 1991, where we bought the Panaxis Productions, from Ernest Wilson, the AM-100, 100 milliwatts AM transmitter kit. (Still have...) Coupling to the power lines was crude, at best, until I was able to obtain, first a JOY Mine-shaft COMM’s coupler, (Sent to Boomer of WAG AM690.), then a Radio Systems, CP-15 Coupler, (Using that presently.), and an LPB, Inc., T-8. Our transmitter now is an older PLL.gr 0-20 watt transmitter kit, bought an assembled in 2015. AM610 is using the James R. Cunningham method of Neutral-Injecting, with a ½ watt carrier. Our signal, today, only travels +/- ¼ mile, due to newly installed power transformers in our neighborhood. So, AM610 is pretty much a glorified STL, (Studio to Transmitter Link), to feed AM1620’s audio. Next, plan to cover Auxiliary Station 49.870MHz FM.
PIC's of a Radio Systems, CP-15, Phase II, Carrier-Current Coupling unit, from 1979. Also included is the James R. Cunningham Neutral-Injection method.
Working again full-time, so I'll leave the curious some foods for contemplation. Apparently, posts are limited here to 1,500 characters. So, MAX-out my wording, here. On Tuesday, 4/2/2024, we had a combo of tornadoes and a Deracio blow through here, ripping down the custom AM1620 antenna, a 9ft 5/8" copper pipe, with an aluminum capacitive Tophat. That, made the antenna about 6% more efficient. However, it was heavy, and lasted for 6 1/2 years. So, for now, the original Radio Systems - I Am Radio, whip antenna was put back in place. AM1620's range has been compromised, a lot. The smaller antenna, just to the right seen, is for our Auxiliary Station 49.870MHz FM, brought into service 1/15/2023.
More AM1620 Additional: Here's the AM1620 transmitter rack, in the garage. Near top, is the Radio Systems - I Am Radio, transmitter. (An updated version of the famed 'Talking House' unit.) MAX RF power consumption is labeled at 92 milliwatts, so actually under the 100 milliwatts FCC MAX Part 15 spec. Below the transmitter is a make-shift STL, (Studio To Transmitter Link), a modified car stereo, tuned to AM Carrier-Current Station, AM610. That's feed audio to AM1620 and the Auxiliary Station, 49.870MHz FM. More, about those stations, later.
Working again full-time, so I'll leave the curious some foods for contemplation. Apparently, posts are limited here to 1,500 characters. So, MAX-out my wording, here. On Tuesday, 4/2/2024, we had a combo of tornadoes and a Deracio blow through here, ripping down the custom AM1620 antenna, a 9ft 5/8" copper pipe, with an aluminum capacitive Tophat. That, made the antenna about 6% more efficient. However, it was heavy, and lasted for 6 1/2 years. So, for now, the original Radio Systems - I Am Radio, whip antenna was put back in place. AM1620's range has been compromised, a lot. The smaller antenna, just to the right seen, is for our Auxiliary Station 49.870MHz FM, brought into service 1/15/2023.
Additional on AM1620's antenna includes PIC's of the ATU, (Antenna Tuning Unit.), or how a station at 1620kHz matches to a very small antenna for that Frequency, but have to, according to FCC Part 15 rules.
Working again full-time, so I'll leave the curious some foods for contemplation. Apparently, posts are limited here to 1,500 characters. So, MAX-out my wording, here. On Tuesday, 4/2/2024, we had a combo of tornadoes and a Deracio blow through here, ripping down the custom AM1620 antenna, a 9ft 5/8" copper pipe, with an aluminum capacitive Tophat. That, made the antenna about 6% more efficient. However, it was heavy, and lasted for 6 1/2 years. So, for now, the original Radio Systems - I Am Radio, whip antenna was put back in place. AM1620's range has been compromised, a lot. The smaller antenna, just to the right seen, is for our Auxiliary Station 49.870MHz FM, brought into service 1/15/2023.
Additional on AM1620's antenna includes PIC's of the ATU, (Antenna Tuning Unit.), or how a station at 1620kHz matches to a very small antenna for that Frequency, but have to, according to FCC Part 15 rules.
More AM1620 Additional: Here's the AM1620 transmitter rack, in the garage. Near top, is the Radio Systems - I Am Radio, transmitter. (An updated version of the famed 'Talking House' unit.) MAX RF power consumption is labeled at 92 milliwatts, so actually under the 100 milliwatts FCC MAX Part 15 spec. Below the transmitter is a make-shift STL, (Studio To Transmitter Link), a modified car stereo, tuned to AM Carrier-Current Station, AM610. That's feed audio to AM1620 and the Auxiliary Station, 49.870MHz FM. More, about those stations, later.