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Radio from a Boat?

Ai4i

Ai4i

Has anyone tried running a part 15 AM station from a boat? Something like a houseboat or a pleasurecraft in a harbour or popular weekend spot, or even a house or business right on the water where boats hang out on weekends? Seems like a way to get a relatively huge coverage area from a fleapower station. You just have to figure some kind of info-programming of special appeal to weekend boaters.<P ID="signature">______________
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> Has anyone tried running a part 15 AM station from a boat?
> Something like a houseboat or a pleasurecraft in a harbour
> or popular weekend spot, or even a house or business right
> on the water where boats hang out on weekends? Seems like a
> way to get a relatively huge coverage area from a fleapower
> station. You just have to figure some kind of
> info-programming of special appeal to weekend boaters.

Yes! There is an interesting page on the Information Station Specialists (ISS) web site www.theradiosource.com/articles-news-jackson.htm that describes marina Part 15 AM commercial radio stations using the Talking House transmitter system, which ISS carries under the name of "InfoMAX."

At the bottom of the web page above, there is also an e-mail link to "Boat and Motor Magazine," from which you can obtain reprints of their article about Part 15 AM marina radio stations. -- Jason
 
Nice article.
I wonder how far the quarter mile dry land signal gets stretched out over fresh and salt water.<P ID="signature">______________
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> Nice article.
> I wonder how far the quarter mile dry land signal gets
> stretched out over fresh and salt water.

Kevin Hoult, who operates the Part 15 AM radio station SCWIS 1500 (Salmon Creek Wireless Information Service) noted that his signal does propagate farther up and down the fresh water creek (his antenna pattern is "stretched" in those directions) than it does across the land near the station. Salt water would be even better. -- Jason
 
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