I had a feeling the Titus II was out there to push DRM broadcasting, to get a lower cost digital receiver out to the masses. At the same time analog receivers with good performance have dropped to the floor on price, for example the Yorek that you reviewed. It looks like the Titus II is hanging in there, but that there hasn't been much movement. Without being active, how do you innovate?by Radio Animal - The Workshop
I heard a good signal too last week on some more current sounding pop music, and it helps that they're the lone wolf on the frequency, so when they propagate they're in the clear. KCJJ used to run C-QUAM AM stereo, and even tried quadraphonic experiments, for 4 speaker sound! I don't think it was a transmitter modification, but that they encoded two more channels into the left and right stereoby Radio Animal - Medium Wave Logs
I was a semi-regular listener to Art Bell's Coast To Coast, with an AM radio on a shelf by the electronics workbench, I'd tune all around AM at night, but didn't know that Andy was on that time. I think I heard about it, he might have even told me, but the only way I've heard the actual show and details about it through the years has been through your recording and your recounting of it. Interby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Right, it would be out of the way of those beacons and others that crowd the ISM frequencies. The limit seems low, but amazing things have been done at low power, sliver bandwidths and very slow data rates. Isn't there an ISM band between CB channels? That might allow higher power in this general range of frequencies. Boomby Radio Animal - The Workshop
I read the Free Radio Weekly posted here, but hadn't heard Radio Genix before to connect it with the logs.by Radio Animal - Free Radio Logs
Ah, thanks. It probably is then. I heard the ID clearly, but those electronic voices can pronounce names oddly, so sometimes you have to figure out what it's trying to say.. Boomby Radio Animal - Free Radio Logs
I hope the stations can hold on, not like it's causing any problems to the spectrum to have something on 87.7, it seems like it's commercial forces that want to wipe them out, even when the stations are providing a service. Boomaby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
01:11: 1970s TV show themes, MASH, WKRP In Cincinnati. Started the next one, maybe Carole King(?) then dropped. Abruptly faded out at 01:15. Good sound. SDR (own), loop antenna outdoors PA stateby Radio Animal - Free Radio Logs
Pop, modern rock. Molchat Doma ? at 20:41 00:45: 'Send your signal reports to (e-mail address)' Electronic voice 00:46: You are listening to Radio Genny (Genie?), shortwave' repeated twice, electronic voice, into techno song. 00:52: Lipps Inc - Funkytown. 00:54: Signal takes a dive, audio fade out? 01:02: Seems to still be there, if the same station short voice announcement nearby Radio Animal - Free Radio Logs
Pop rock tunes of today, sounding like Junior Senior, etc. 23:35 ID W-T-F Voiceover: "The stars are out tonight, WTF" More music, had to leave room, came back about 00:00 and it was faded out or signed off. SDR (my own) Listening in SAM mode is better with the selective fading. Good, well balanced audio EQ and clean sound. Boomby Radio Animal - Free Radio Logs
There's been a reply to that post too, in another article. The ideas people have about digital on the AM band are all over the place, few have heard it, and even fewer understand what it can do, then equipment manufacturers and stations are claiming it's 'the future', a meaningless phrase in marketing. Watch out.by Radio Animal - General radio discussion
I know that exposure rules have been tightening up over the years, but also that there are some fears around new products, like when the 'Radarange' microwave oven was getting popular. Later it was cell phones, and now 5 G. "It's worse than dead, his brain is gone."by Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Guess what I heard a pirate! I'm testing out my new SDR tonight, and RFW is the first pirate to be heard on it. Radio Free Whatever with modern rock, indie rock format. My notes as I listened. Cool to be happy song The Strokes 01:28 ID, song Modest mouse Proud To Be Between Highly edited ID at :32 with cut tape edits and 'Mitch Craig' style deep radio voice. Request for Chrby Radio Animal - Free Radio Logs
That will be better, the new meter will get you down into longwave for more tests down there, like if you get on the 630 meter band. Great! Do you know about VNAs? I see lots of hams talking about those. I still have my grid-dip meter, well it's FET. Boomby Radio Animal - The Workshop
Going by the coverage map on Radio-Locator, they beam almost due north.by Radio Animal - General radio discussion
I hope that you didn't lose too much on that deal. Maybe crowd funding wasn't so established, but now, everyone seems to be doing it, it shows when there's interest in a product. I remember talk in their promo materials was promoting that the Titus would have DRM, (Digital Radio Mondiale) reception. I saw enough about it and wondered if DRM was an investor in the radio, or giving them supportby Radio Animal - The Workshop
That's nice, I missed trying to hear the test, but I know about that station well from on line C-QUAM stereo groups, where even WION's owner posts regularly. The station is an example of what AM radio could be again, local ownership with an involved operator who puts their heart and soul into the station and strives for technical and broadcast excellence for his listeners. It's what many oby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
The Phillips Compact Cassette. Remember when they would say Compact Cassette, and there was even styled logo for it? Oh yeah, program producers always had to work against the 30-45 minute time clock. Yup, all that time working with cassettes, and with just the pause button, you could assemble edit shows with just a boombox and little else. I know several stations that made shows just that way.by Radio Animal - The Workshop
If you sister got an article about radio, it's probably big tech tracking your household. I've had changes in videos I've seen, just from friends being on my wi-fi. I had someone looking up Russian videos, and the person was gone, but later on I started to see Russian language videos come up in my suggestions on the side bar. They didn't use my computer, it was their own tablet that they brought.by Radio Animal - The Workshop
I can help with that 'Leo' that Radio Noid played, that would be none other than Leo Moracchioli, he does heavy metal covers of all genres of pop and rock music. He's from Norway, and makes a new song every week, an a video to go along with it. Notables are Devil Went Down To Georgia and Beastie Boys Intergalactic, but there are other well done ones too. Boomerby Radio Animal - Free Radio Logs
Probably not in the attic.by Radio Animal - Free Radio Logs
I've still been hearing it as of the 13th, music and a canned announcement that they'd be going off air in a few days. Maybe it hasn't gone off due to harsh winter weather and they couldn't do anything at the site anyway?by Radio Animal - Medium Wave Logs
I like how it goes from QRP on up to fully allowed power, in 3 power classes, with QRP being less than 25 watts. We know what 25 watts can do. The interest in AM mode, I like this. Several times I've read, in old ham publications, that single sideband was taking over and there would be no more AM, except as a curiosity. Boomaby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
That's true, I haven't heard an AM house-seller for a long time, gosh, when has it been, the 2000s probably for AM. The drive-in theater, some schools in the area had some kind of small AM's, and I heard talkin' houses on both AM, usually 1610, and some open FM frequency, maybe only once in the city, a sign mentioned it outside of a townhouse. There was an odd FM at a local skate-punk-tattoo-gby Radio Animal - The Workshop
Weird! All this time and I never noticed there was an FM section to the FRN, shows I haven't been looking since its return a few years ago. Yes, 87.9, I do the same, even at home I can get stations on that frequency by just keeping a sensitive radio tuned there. I can tell when a car is just passing through, or is stopped at a light for a while because the signal will hold. Several years baby Radio Animal - FM Logs
Good stuff, and maybe he traced out the schematic of the sections he needed to modify. If Talking House ever got in there and really engineered that thing right and fixed the bugs, that's the only rig that would sell. They could have one with the auto-tuner for those who like or need it, like for installing it remotely outside. A second unit could be manually tuned, with a high-low bandby Radio Animal - The Workshop
Thanks for posting i ThaDood! I've seen the page for a while, lots of nice little projects and ideas there, done in a heavy metal tubes and discrete transistors style. I read that the operator of Radio Morningstar had passed away, and now I find that the original Dutch site is gone, a few months after I'd retrieved the page there. I was translating a little at a time, and when I went to try toby Radio Animal - The Workshop
Thanks for the mention! Lots of stuff to put up there, I just started it to have access to files in one place, but others liked it too. James R. Cunningham is an interesting radio tech rebel, and you might not have as much use from his tube circuits now, but you could try some of his antennas and read his experimental ideas and circuit hookups. Boomby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Oh my god, no one plays K-9 Corp's Dog Talk anywhere, that's an obscure song! It's George Clinton as 'Pretty C', with a Canine rap over the backing track for Atomic Dog. When that came out, a friend told me seeing the 12" at a record store down in the city, and I walked there to get it, at least a 4 hour round trip, so that's been one of my special records. Now I'd want to get to know thby Radio Animal - Free Radio Logs
That's an oldie, it almost looks abandoned! I think I found that page before in searches, and maybe thought to join, but didn't know what to make of zero activity. Maybe when they got LPFM rolling, there just weren't enough hands on deck to keep up with AM efforts. Once they got LPFM, a lot of work then went into getting stations on the air. A problem, the preferred device for most things,by Radio Animal - General radio discussion