[BC] AM Radio Kit

[Steve]

Well, this will give away my age. The record I ran over and over was Sea of Love by Phil Phillips. I would test the low end of the station with Moonglow & Theme from Picnic by Morris Stoloff and His Orchestra. (those Decca vinyls sounded great as did the Mercury stuff but most all of theirs were acetates...cue burn city!!!

Steve
Steve Walker Productions

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  Fascinating discussion, this! :)

  I remember my first "broadcast" was when I discovered that a CB channel 14 
  toy "base station" could be heard plain as day at 108Mhz on an FM radio. I 
  played "DJ" for hours with that thing. I also wired-up those "multi-in-one" kits as 
  AM transmitters many times over. I measured my "coverage area" on foot... 
  usually less than a block... but I took my role as a "broadcaster" seriously. 
  Between records, I was cautioning people (in winter) to be careful on the 
  sidewalks.

  When I got to my teen years, I built a transmiter that was a wee bit more 
  powerful. I don't know for sure how much RF I was pumping out, but it was 
  sufficient to go several miles. (From less than a block to several miles... I was in 
  my glory!) It amazed a friend of mine who lived about a mile and a half away, 
  that he could hear me loud & clear on his AM radio.

  So, one night, we went out driving (he had a car, I didn't) with an old 
  "Blondie" 45 playing on a repeating turntable... that record was worn-through to 
  the other side by the time we got back! We were also quite sick of "Heart of 
  Glass" by then! ;)

  I called it "WQDX" and ran it a couple of times on 1160.

  Then there was the time he and I played a practical joke on his wife... using 
  his CB in the car so I could hear them, and my AM transmitter (from my home) 
  in a full duplex operation... heh heh heh... freaked her right out!

  Ah, youth. ;)

  Willie...

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