Yes, I am sure your technical input and expertise has greatly helped. I must admit I am an operator not enginner, so what said is what I see. We have a salvaged maritime transmitter that Andre converts from 3 phase. He says it could do 50 kw pep. We have never done that has our lights and the neighborhood would go black.
Andre is a part time field engineer for a company that does very high power and is in Nova Scotia. Should not say more.
Nautel does it ring a bell?
We want to do DRM, but nobody can decode it. It is best for shortwaves I am told.
Now we hear that sweet Canadian boy, doing summer 69? You I presume?
yes, summer of 69, good song too.
i wouldnt go the way of DRM unless you plan on operating at least 50KW with a commercial antenna and realize the listener base is comprised of many DRM capable receivers.
the characteristics of transmission for DRM is similar to how DTV is received, the signal has to be strong and stable to be properly decoded.
at least with analog, the signal can be weak and still be effectively intelligible and understood under the right circumstances.
i dont think i would operate at more than 1KW even though i am more than capable of it at full duty, i generally operate at half that when i am utilizing the extra power which isnt too often.
i feel its better on the tubes and my electric bill
the idea of operating at low power presents an interesting challenge for hobbyists.
Topic: UNID 6880 AM 1555 UTC 3 MAY 2018 (Read 2425 times)
