I cancelled my plans to broadcast during the hurricane. I am glad I did. All forcasts stated that my area was going to get tropical storm winds and we would be far from the eye. At 4:30am I realized that this was no tropical storm. Winds gusts went up to 140mph. The eye pass north us by about 2 miles! I lost one side of a fence that was over 30 feet long. Huge tree fell from across the street to block my driveway. We just got our power back after 2 weeks. Because so many people lost power I waited till now to start working on reinstalling the rangemaster. Several people approached me today and asked me when will I be up and running again, always a nice feeling when someone cares. Speaking of rangemaster, I have two of them. Keith just sent me one that i sent to him to get fixed. It was close to a lighting strike and knocked out the audio part. Keith stands by his product and is always a great help.
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This hurricane I sat out
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JasonW
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Welcome back! That *is* a great feeling, isn't it, to know that your presence on the air was missed?
Just a thought for future possible storms: Why not mount a Marconi "Tee" wire antenna flat against the longest wall of your house? During a storm it could be fed with a RangeMaster transmitter that's kept indoors. At ~8 feet high with a 20' - 40' long flat-top capacitive load wire, the "Tee" antenna should give performance comparable to the whip. When the storm has passed, you could re-install a RangeMaster outdoors with a whip antenna. -- JasonW
> I cancelled my plans to broadcast during the hurricane. I am
> glad I did. All forcasts stated that my area was going to
> get tropical storm winds and we would be far from the eye.
> At 4:30am I realized that this was no tropical storm. Winds
> gusts went up to 140mph. The eye pass north us by about 2
> miles! I lost one side of a fence that was over 30 feet
> long. Huge tree fell from across the street to block my
> driveway. We just got our power back after 2 weeks. Because
> so many people lost power I waited till now to start working
> on reinstalling the rangemaster. Several people approached
> me today and asked me when will I be up and running again,
> always a nice feeling when someone cares. Speaking of
> rangemaster, I have two of them. Keith just sent me one that
> i sent to him to get fixed. It was close to a lighting
> strike and knocked out the audio part. Keith stands by his
> product and is always a great help.
>
Just a thought for future possible storms: Why not mount a Marconi "Tee" wire antenna flat against the longest wall of your house? During a storm it could be fed with a RangeMaster transmitter that's kept indoors. At ~8 feet high with a 20' - 40' long flat-top capacitive load wire, the "Tee" antenna should give performance comparable to the whip. When the storm has passed, you could re-install a RangeMaster outdoors with a whip antenna. -- JasonW
> I cancelled my plans to broadcast during the hurricane. I am
> glad I did. All forcasts stated that my area was going to
> get tropical storm winds and we would be far from the eye.
> At 4:30am I realized that this was no tropical storm. Winds
> gusts went up to 140mph. The eye pass north us by about 2
> miles! I lost one side of a fence that was over 30 feet
> long. Huge tree fell from across the street to block my
> driveway. We just got our power back after 2 weeks. Because
> so many people lost power I waited till now to start working
> on reinstalling the rangemaster. Several people approached
> me today and asked me when will I be up and running again,
> always a nice feeling when someone cares. Speaking of
> rangemaster, I have two of them. Keith just sent me one that
> i sent to him to get fixed. It was close to a lighting
> strike and knocked out the audio part. Keith stands by his
> product and is always a great help.
>
Thanks for the welcome back.
Yes it is nice to know that people are looking for you on the air.
I put alot of work into getting an audience.
I have the advantage of covering the entire Southern part of the state on a weekly basis.
For over a year I had an all nite program down here. I used to broadcast from my home and it went to the station where an engineer handled my phone calls etc.
Industry insiders told me that I had over 5,000 listeners every hour according to one rating service. So it is nice to have people listening but having a huge signal and thousands of people tuned is another world. One nite a cop pulled me over in Hollywood Florida about 2am. He was shining a flashlight at me questioning me on what I was doing. I told him I was checking out a property I owned. I then told him that it was me on the radio. He shined his light on the radio and then back on me and then on the radio. I said go in your car and I will say hello to you on your car radio, I will just call the station and they will put me on live. He got all confused and wished me a good nite and left. It was a very exciting year. The signal was awesome and all nite midnite till 6am 6 days a week. However Espn leased the station and everyone got zonked. I do promote my part 15 on my present Sunday program. I do get alot of people trying to tune it in because dont understand the signal has less energy then a nite lite. I hired one of the finest comic book illustrators who also does logos for major companies to do my art work. He made a portrait of myself together with a part 15 looking setup and it is in full color. I have printed 5000 color postcards and leave them in stores. My problem is now some people cant pick up the signal in their homes. I do use a rangemaster is great but some blocks using dial radios cant get a good signal. I am considering a few things. One to add another rangemaster half mile away to help cut down on anyone that may have problems or to go on the next frequencey over which is ultra quiet during the day but noisy at nite. Since they are next to each other by 10mhz they will help each other out. Did you ever try using a coper pipe on a rangemaster I thinked it helped but right now on my reinstall I didnt put it on.
> Welcome back! That *is* a great feeling, isn't it, to know
> that your presence on the air was missed?
>
> Just a thought for future possible storms: Why not mount a
> Marconi "Tee" wire antenna flat against the longest wall of
> your house? During a storm it could be fed with a
> RangeMaster transmitter that's kept indoors. At ~8 feet
> high with a 20' - 40' long flat-top capacitive load wire,
> the "Tee" antenna should give performance comparable to the
> whip. When the storm has passed, you could re-install a
> RangeMaster outdoors with a whip antenna. -- JasonW
>
> > I cancelled my plans to broadcast during the hurricane. I
> am
> > glad I did. All forcasts stated that my area was going to
> > get tropical storm winds and we would be far from the eye.
>
> > At 4:30am I realized that this was no tropical storm.
> Winds
> > gusts went up to 140mph. The eye pass north us by about 2
> > miles! I lost one side of a fence that was over 30 feet
> > long. Huge tree fell from across the street to block my
> > driveway. We just got our power back after 2 weeks.
> Because
> > so many people lost power I waited till now to start
> working
> > on reinstalling the rangemaster. Several people approached
>
> > me today and asked me when will I be up and running again,
>
> > always a nice feeling when someone cares. Speaking of
> > rangemaster, I have two of them. Keith just sent me one
> that
> > i sent to him to get fixed. It was close to a lighting
> > strike and knocked out the audio part. Keith stands by his
>
> > product and is always a great help.
> >
>
Yes it is nice to know that people are looking for you on the air.
I put alot of work into getting an audience.
I have the advantage of covering the entire Southern part of the state on a weekly basis.
For over a year I had an all nite program down here. I used to broadcast from my home and it went to the station where an engineer handled my phone calls etc.
Industry insiders told me that I had over 5,000 listeners every hour according to one rating service. So it is nice to have people listening but having a huge signal and thousands of people tuned is another world. One nite a cop pulled me over in Hollywood Florida about 2am. He was shining a flashlight at me questioning me on what I was doing. I told him I was checking out a property I owned. I then told him that it was me on the radio. He shined his light on the radio and then back on me and then on the radio. I said go in your car and I will say hello to you on your car radio, I will just call the station and they will put me on live. He got all confused and wished me a good nite and left. It was a very exciting year. The signal was awesome and all nite midnite till 6am 6 days a week. However Espn leased the station and everyone got zonked. I do promote my part 15 on my present Sunday program. I do get alot of people trying to tune it in because dont understand the signal has less energy then a nite lite. I hired one of the finest comic book illustrators who also does logos for major companies to do my art work. He made a portrait of myself together with a part 15 looking setup and it is in full color. I have printed 5000 color postcards and leave them in stores. My problem is now some people cant pick up the signal in their homes. I do use a rangemaster is great but some blocks using dial radios cant get a good signal. I am considering a few things. One to add another rangemaster half mile away to help cut down on anyone that may have problems or to go on the next frequencey over which is ultra quiet during the day but noisy at nite. Since they are next to each other by 10mhz they will help each other out. Did you ever try using a coper pipe on a rangemaster I thinked it helped but right now on my reinstall I didnt put it on.
> Welcome back! That *is* a great feeling, isn't it, to know
> that your presence on the air was missed?
>
> Just a thought for future possible storms: Why not mount a
> Marconi "Tee" wire antenna flat against the longest wall of
> your house? During a storm it could be fed with a
> RangeMaster transmitter that's kept indoors. At ~8 feet
> high with a 20' - 40' long flat-top capacitive load wire,
> the "Tee" antenna should give performance comparable to the
> whip. When the storm has passed, you could re-install a
> RangeMaster outdoors with a whip antenna. -- JasonW
>
> > I cancelled my plans to broadcast during the hurricane. I
> am
> > glad I did. All forcasts stated that my area was going to
> > get tropical storm winds and we would be far from the eye.
>
> > At 4:30am I realized that this was no tropical storm.
> Winds
> > gusts went up to 140mph. The eye pass north us by about 2
> > miles! I lost one side of a fence that was over 30 feet
> > long. Huge tree fell from across the street to block my
> > driveway. We just got our power back after 2 weeks.
> Because
> > so many people lost power I waited till now to start
> working
> > on reinstalling the rangemaster. Several people approached
>
> > me today and asked me when will I be up and running again,
>
> > always a nice feeling when someone cares. Speaking of
> > rangemaster, I have two of them. Keith just sent me one
> that
> > i sent to him to get fixed. It was close to a lighting
> > strike and knocked out the audio part. Keith stands by his
>
> > product and is always a great help.
> >
>
J
JasonW
Guest
Simcha, you have several options to legally enlarge your reception area. Synchronized RangeMasters on the same frequency (or non-synchronized RangeMasters on "staggered" frequencies) would work well, as would a Part 15 AM Carrier Current system. You could even combine Carrier Current and RangeMaster systems to fill in nulls in your desired listening area.
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