Tagged: transmission
Building an AM Transmitter with HackRF One
There’s something quaint and old fashioned about AM radio. The muffled drifting in an out as you drive down the road, the cacophany of noise attacking your ears attempting to listen at night and...
Building a (Very) Low Power FM Transmitter with HackRF One
Software defined radio has been a thing for a few years now but the sheer cost of equipment meant put transmission out of reach. There’s even a post on this very site from a...
Compression, Loudness and Coverage – A Trade Off
It was always touted as the thing you wanted to be – the loudest on the dial. It was even said on occasion that it could help improve your coverage in rough patches. This...
Moving a Point-to-Point Microwave Link
At one station I volunteer for, we use a 1.5GHz microwave link to connect between the studio and the transmitter site on top of a hill nearby. Now I should stress that microwave link...
Flipping Over to Your Competitor?!?
Weirdly, I had a problem I’ve not seen for years crop up recently. And it all started with complaints about car radios flipping between us and a competitor radio station. That’s not a good...
Two Processors One FM Service
It’s something you’re always advised against. Having two processors on a single transmission chain can result in the two of them “fighting” if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing. That said, even one...
Raspberry Pi STL in a Box
I promised more details in the future about the Raspberry Pi STL build. Well, against all odds, I’m going to deliver! The project exists purely to solve a problem with getting audio between two...