jakeguitar01 Your SWR meter isn’t built to measure power in the band the amp operates (147 MHz vs 106 MHz ) so don’t take the results to heart. I’d apply a fudge factor of +-15 % at least. It’ll tell you how well the antenna is tuned to freq you’re operating on for sure but as far as an quantitative transmit power level, nope.
They were good in the 90s! A lot of stations run them, but the owner of the company was convicted a few times and fined £5000 each time for supplying the equipment. RIS in Warrington went after him constantly. I used a PLL board in to a philips PA module from an old PMR radio, that give 20watts. Later I got hold of a PYE A200 linear amp on Band M1 which was around 106MHz. This took 13A on 13.8V and delivered a solid 65Watts. My first experiments in 1985 were with producing a 19KHz carrier to make it look like I was broadcasting stereo. Years later I built a simple encoder from a 4060 and 4053 IC that give decent separation between the channels and still works to this day! My aerials ranged from a dipole to 4 dipoles stacked on a huge pole, then a slim jim which worked better than everything else. I went on to be an RF Engineer because of what experimenting had taught me. I always wanted to try MW but never got past 2Watts AM. I lost interest after building a 500W amp from audio MOSFETs and blowing it to bits. One thing I never tried was microwave links, so took a huge risk having a full and expensive studio set up with a transmitter.
CQ, CQ! Gosh , as a kid (14-17), I built pirate FM and AM radio stations using valves (tubes) -chips are indeed a lot easier. For aerials, I cut-to-fit 2 old Radio Shack FM cross dipoles Had to make balun coil converters, used cheap RG 58AU (I was poor) and I made a 2 BAY curricular polarised antenna syste!m! (not bad -eh?). I also converted a large (15 - 17 tubes) broad-band cable TV amplifier to a good 3 meter linear amp that eventually gave me about 20 watts ERP. I was so poor, that I had to tune everything using a light bulb dummy load (short periods) and working with a friend about a mile away with a good receiver and S meter. In the end, I think I was probably getting my SWR down to at least 1.5:1, but probably loosing a few watts in the damn cheap coax. If I could have afforded 9913, it would have been real tight. This was a real home-made rig, but it performed as well as a 1950s RCA exciter -in fact the sound was better and louder (WITHOUT anything but a cheap compressor based on the then new optical isolator. I was able to get two isolators (for stereo) for free as samples by using a deep voice on the phone... When you are 16, have noooo money and want to play radio, you become very inventive. I was obviously doing a little better than 75K deviation and the EF86 valves in the audio stage gave me great deep bass that no other station had. -Probably some AM artifacts as well, as we came out a tad louder than any other station on the band and had a far more pleasing signal. Solid state exciters STILL do not sound as good as the old valve exciters. - but the FCC never bothered me. We kept it clean, did not interfere with any legal stations and played a lot of god music that the commercial stations would not play. We covered the entire town! Commercial FM station have all that power mostly to impress advertisers. After 500 to a 1000 watts ERP, it's the height of the aerial that matters most -not the power . FM is lone of site. Just to check out all the new gear, circa. 1997, I built a chip PLL X-mitter, (150 watts) and put a station on the air in MANHATTAN -for the upper east side!! I used two skyscrapers behind me as rough RF directors and managed to aim a signal about 10 miles into Jersey, but I was picked-up more in QUEENS! Go figure. Again the FCC left me alone, but I was only on the air for a bout 2 weeks. -Just wanted to see if I could do it. -I could, but, it was more fun in the old days. I went back to my 1.3 KW HAM 20 metre phone station as the sunspot cycle was just too GOOD! Later I'll tell you a good 9-11 story... 73s !
Dude.....will you please bring me into the light...lol. How the hell do you set up a radio station, playing illegal content (copyright infringement of any song you don't have the legal royalty rights to), and broadcast to your local town without being sued or prosecuted? No I'm not being a smart-ass or a prick. I seriously want to know how you pulled that off cuz that's one of the coolest things I've heard. Especially in NYC. Regulation capital of the east coast. I'm not some idiot who comment's on post's because I have no life, I am extremity fluent and proficient in setting up 11 meter CB base stations and have had many friends that had their HAM's (at least I thought I was,) but never heard of someone getting away with broadcasting on the FM local channels and with that much power. I am feeling a little impressed at the moment but now I have a million more questions.....
@@stephenperrault We did it for years in years in Ireland! Sure the law come after you at times especially when taking serious advertising revenue for legal stations. Have a look at the history of pirate radio in there UK starting offshore with ships. In Ireland look at radio Nova, Dublin. At its peak it was 50KW am!
I find it amazing some of the crap that comes out of peoples mouths. The guy jakeguitar01 who made this video is NOT claiming to be a professional he is just showing you whats inside the unit and how to adjust it. How can people judge the sound quality over the internet !. The guy is feeding the transmitter from a mobile phone and recording it with an average microphone and then uploading it to you tube. What are you expecting "musical fidelity". He's just showing you how the bloody thing works. As for those of you arguing about power and distance, some of you so called experts are talking sh@t. There are many things to consider when transmitting, for instance, someone listening to your output may live five miles away from you and have no buildings in the path of transmission. on the other hand, someone living one mile away may have and may not get your output. You need more power to get around buildings and into built up areas not so much the distance. I could go on but i wont. The video was educational........ give the guy a break.
It should be noted you need to make your adjustments using a plastic screw driver, not one that is conductive. It interferes with the ability to get the fine adjustment if you don't.
If can’t find plastic screw driver, use a straight wasted tooth brush handle, file into a slot screw driver in size, I had used to do it during my youth time.
We ran a pirate station in the early 2000's. I looked at some Veronica transmitters but they were expensive back then. We paid for a home made 130Watt transmitter. When I opened it up it was pure analog. There were no IC's on the board. It also came with a link transmitter which was used to send audio from one location, to the transmitter in another location. This stopped the then DTI from finding the broadcasting location if they found the transmitter. I've always wanted to know how that transmitter worked because it worked very well. Except, if you got close to it you ended up with a headache. It was probably dangerous.
The transmitter is fine, the high levels of rf you were standing is was just frying your brain. That's why you put the antenna up high where no one is around. It's even worse the higher you go in frequency. I got a real bad headache running a 2 watt 2.4GHz studio link into a high gain antenna and sitting in front of the dish not realizing it was on. Oops!
I also have a Ramsey fm 100. I built a amp to get 1w out of it and ran it in to the 30w board inside the transmitter in this video. I didn't buy A pre assemble transmitter but I has purchased the 30w veronica pcb about 20 years ago.
I don't think the guy who made the video knows much about it either so don't feel bad. It's a commercially made FM Transmitter that transmits in the Medium Wave band (the commercial FM band).
@@chriscunningham6362 You don't seem to know what you're talking about either. The "medium wave" band uses AM and is in the 530-1700 kHz range (contrary to the FM band shown in the video).
for about 10 years( 24/365) -- i have run a type certified part15 (100mw) AM TX Rangemaster with a Inovonics 222,, broadcasting city council meetings and indy music.. i get about 7 miles range .. i am on a high bank next to salt water
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder And the touch of a world that is older Turn the switch and check the number Leave it on when in bed I slumber I hear the rhythms of the music I buy the product and never use it I hear the talking of the dj Can't understand just what does he say? I'm on a pirate radio I'm on a pirate radio I dial it in and tune the station They talk about the u.s. inflation I understand just a little No comprende--it's a riddle I'm on a pirate radio I'm on a pirate radio I wish I was in Tiajuana Eating barbequed iguana I'd take requests on the telephone I'm on a wavelength far from home I feel a hot wind on my shoulder I dial it in from south of the border I hear the talking of the dj Can't understand just what does he say?
Salut, Yeaaaahhhh wonderful ! A l'epoque je connaissais l'ami qui les avait conçus. A l'heure actuelle je ne sais meme pas si il vit encore. On s'est perdu de vue y'a plus de 25ans malheureusement. A l'epoque il utilisait des transistors finaux, PA type BLYXX. enfin tout en DIY jusqu'à l'antenne, la même que la tienne. Qu'est-ce que j'aimerais revenir en arrière. A l'epoque Radio Veronica transmettait depuis un bateau en mer du nord je crois. Ou est vendu ce Kit ? Merci encore. Best regards.
a lot of people don't understand what the fcc part 15 rules are all about. operating a non-compliant transmitter isn't illegal if you can demonstrate that you are not radiating excessive rf or harmonics that could cause interference with others. a transmitter has to be part 15 compliant if it is for sale, but if you build a transmitter from parts it does not have to be part-15 compliant as long as you don't sell it.
I tested one of these back in the day, (a "30 Watt" one) it had about 10 whole Watts on the frequency it was meant to be on, and the rest appeared as a general mush from about 47MHz (the ½f was 52.1MHz) up to over 150MHz. It was radiating slightly under a Watt on 121.5MHz, which would really piss off the local airport. There was also some output at 243MHz so even the military would be interested in getting this shut down!
Sounds like there's no filter on the output. Radio Frontline in Manchester back in the early 1990s put out loads of out of band transmissions. I remember it's 100.4mhz signal also had another equally loud signal on 50.2MHz the SSB calling channel on the six metre ham band. It used to drift like nobody's business. No wonder it got shut down.
Same for the Chinese made eBay transmitters. They are pure garbage and seeing 15 watts on a meter, does not mean that you have anywhere near that wattage on the intended frequency. They are dirty AF
Had major issues with this in the early 90's with this unit. Bleed over on the Hi's and Lo's. All our kit was SWR checked. It seemed to suffer with Temperatures were it also tended to just slightly drift frequency a bit. Good at the time and for the price..
These units are pretty average in their specs and quality. A good exciter shouldn't have to have the PLL manually adjusted for lock. They're using circuit design techniques which are really antiquated. A PLL unit should not drift under any circumstances - that's why you have a PLL!
Did you calculate the antenna to get it to transmit that long? I bought a chinese 7W pll fm transmitter with a screen, and actually set the antenna really high, but the max range is like 700 m
You have Jumper 1 in the wrong position! It is set for 50uS instead of 75uS. It's clearly shown on the board where this jumper should be. J2 is correct for 75uS.
You can petition FCC for a community radio, a low powered station. There are all kinds of rules to comply with, and it is not a sure thing you will get approved. They are still low powered, you have to be on air (meaning run the station daily), have community related public services and announcements, allow others access to use the station, and you will be subject to review and renewal. In other words it is not a casual thing. You have all the liability or commercial radio station with a very small range.
@gmcjetpilot - Good luck with that. The FCC hasn't accepted any LPFM applications since 2013, and has no immediate plans to start accepting them in the future. The system they have is easy to abuse, so that only the groups with the most money end up obtaining them anyway. And besides that, they don't grant these licenses to individuals at all. Only to Non Profit organizations, universities, and emergency workers. Best way to use the airwaves is to take them.
I run 100 watts and a .94 wave dominator its hilly around here I get about 10 miles with good sound I have only 40 foot of tower I have a 75 foot one for my wireless ISP but if caught I don't want the feds taking that tower !!
@@CoolOldBiker We now have been at it 5 years with no problem the closest station on our frequency is 100 miles away from what we have read they don't do the warning any more the tiger teams swoop in since a FCC agent is not law enforcement they must have ether a federal cop or local police to make entry with a warrant and both the county and state police listen to us when in the area and we have been advised they will warn us if they are involved ! we have tried to get LPFM with no luck plus its so expensive and a LOT of the groups that did get licensed have turned them back in because of the fees that no one tells you about like $1000 for BMA ASCAP the $3500 for a EBS receiver and you must be on a minimum of 36 hours a week so if your not on the EBS is useless we have a weather alert radio from Wal Mart and we beat the local news by a few minuet's getting a warning out the whole thing boils down to the NAB is scared to death some one will prefer our station over a members one whats scary the NAB has lobbied IE paid off the FCC to allow mutable stations owned by the same corporation and now even the RUSSIAN media can own stations in the US and they do !! that's not good ! BTW yes we don't allow foul language on air nor do we allow Rap Hip Hop OR young country to be played and we now have a homemade profanity cut out with a funny tone of a ku ku clock bird for live phone slip ups . OH with new coax now a 15 mile range the stuff for CB RG8 is awful !
The 87.5-108 MHz band is a licensed band pretty much all over the world. Thus as a general rule of thumb you must NOT broadcast in that range at all and I think that most countries in Europe aren't as lenient on that rule as the US is.
best to tune transmitter into a dummy load and watt meter first! 50 ohm load. load rated for VHF or higher will be fine. also VSWR on antenna important as well tune under 1.5:1 . I have several dummy loads. check rated power and frequency.
They wouldnt be able to hear it as their radios only tune specific frequencies. Their local 100Kw transmitters would swamp your signal if you transmitted on the same frequency. Also if you’re on the other side of the planet, they’ll be shielded.
You didn't mention your location. If an antenna were to be extended into the stratosphere however, your transmit signal would be absorbed by your feedline after a few hundred feet, and no signal would make it TO your antenna. If your proximity is within 10 -20 miles of N. Korea, you would see a good chance of being received with an antenna up only 30 - 40 meters and a transmitter of 100 watts. What is your location? I can have someone listening for you in the area you are speaking of.
Slt, Oui il est fait avec un NE 571 ou un truc du genre, un super AOP en gros. Bien réglé sur une K7, le son était ausi propre qu'un CD, mm plus doux, moins "saccadé". Sans bruit de fond avec une plage dynamique énorme. 😉 Best regards.
Definitely, the compressor/limiter was quite expensive and I do not know of any other surviving ones. I used a Behringer Composer Pro on the audio in to my home made stereo encoder, PLL TX and 65 Watt ex-PMR amp.
A question for the guy who did this video I've got a 7watt FM trasmitter at the moment here in the UK and my antenna is 40tf above ground level if I get a 15watt fm trasmitter and keep my antenna at 40ft at 15watts how many miles should that get me because at the moment it for a 4miles on 7watts?
Screw complying with FCC Part 15 rules. I’d be taking that thing up to 30 watts and going for a drive to see how far it goes. It wouldn’t be on long enough for someone to do something about it anyway.
Meh, the music purportedly received via the radio sounded the same as when your cell phone has played it through its abysmal speakers. I smell something fishy here....
So, when you put this illegal transmitter on the air and operate your unlicensed station, are you gonna pop all your "P's" like you're doing in this video?
Nice. Set up a radio station in London. Wasn’t mine but helped set the rig up but we had a thing called a link box. From the mixer in the studio to a link box then face the dipole towards the transmitter and have another link box with dipole facing the studio on the transmitter. Think we was like 250 watts at one point. 😂😂 20 foot scaffold pole on a tower block over looking London. Had the manager of Thames fm ring up and ask if we could change frequencies. Bleeding over a legal station 😂 DTI was on us like a rash.
If your antenna is at least 60ft or more in hight if that's at 30watts it should be 30miles because your antenna should be high enough then it should work out at 1watt per mile.
hola según entiendo el sistema verónica es ya obsoleto por que falla en la estabilidad de frecuencia , ya los chinos y sus transmisores de fm caseros superaron esa tecnología hace rato y por experiencia el alcance con esos 30 watt no es mas de 10 kilómetros sin que ya por la perdida de señal requiera mejorar la recepción de esa transmisión con antenas mas altas. curvatura de la tierra.
Fixed plenty of these old transmitters, crystal based though so Audio was tinny and thin compared to transistor multiplier circuit based transmitters which have a much fuller sound as they are not restricted by the crystal.
Rubbish! Tinny audio was caused by not modulating it correctly, so possibly poor audio equipment in use. They were all set to the same FM deviation of +/-75KHz. They would do this as a maximum before sounding distorted, so anything lower was the users fault. It doesn't matter how a frequency is generated, PLL or crystal, that has nothing to do with the FM deviation level itself.
Mi fa piacere che qualcuno ancora si diverte con questi apparati, a me purtroppo non da piu' lo stimolo poiche' lo progettatati pari pari nel 1980 quando non c'era ne la rete e pochi libri, allora si che era divertente!
Yep its thin and tinny sound because its crystal based oscillator, transistor oscillator multiplier designs much nicer sound as not restricted by crystal bandwidth, they did put out good power though.
@@knoxieman The crystal has nothing to do with it. Commercial transmitters used by FM stations are also crystal locked and they sound pretty damn good. It comes down to the quality of the transmitter and the audio processing used.
@@radioengineering8247 in this case it sounds bad because he is running a speaker-level signal from his phone directly into the stereo coder which is a line-level input, but he also is not using any audio limiting aka broadcast processing. with the proper airchain these veronica transmitters sound great and produce a clean, harmonic-free output.
One that os clear in all the areas you want to cover. Really, it is as simple as that. You need to have a listen in different areas, look at which legal stations are about etc. I used to listen to Dimension FM on 92.2MHz in the North West. They had a TX on the TV mast on The Wrekin. No one around the area used 92.2 so it was ideal for a huge range. They were also heard by another station in Manchester.
As the man says in the intro; ALWAYS USE AN SWR METER www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GNVJ8IU/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jakeguitar01-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00GNVJ8IU&linkId=85864da1a08399a9de6034f90ccc980b
I have got 27.7 miles on a 0.5 watt output transmitted into a vertical vhf antenna mounted 60 ft above ground I could work the world on 30 watts. 😊 peace ✌
Pete uk radio amateur mw6zan what equipment do you have? And how did you set it up? I’m ready to take my station from internet to the fm dial. Pls help?
Ever see the field radios "horn" used in the war in Vietnam? Usually one dude had it on his back, a telephone type mic/reciever, and 30+ feet of antenna when folded out. As I recall the two main selector dials each with neer endless choice of clicks , utilizing both knobs at once , I have no idea how they knew what channel to use but I do know as kids my friends and I could talk over fm radio and local TV programs . Every time we voiced over the program his dad was watching , accidentally, he knew we had found his new hiding spot , rigged up batteries, and the shit hit the fan😃 .....I should call him
I like your header telling how to make a pirate radio but at the bottom you say " please follow all FCC rules" if I did that then watching the video is a moot point lol.
So.. we all have fm transmitters, we swr/tune our antennas, then we drive about 5,6,7 miles to see how far we are getting out, BUT the truth is WE are the only people who listen to our own broadcasts, lmfao
Hello Brother congratulations for your nice transmitter. I need a 1 Kavita FM transmitter circuit diagram. its I want from you. are you help me? please please please!!
i am in an island in scotland i am in the center there's a large pole stand where i can place the pole can anyone tell me what i would need to reach 5 to 10 mils from me to be heard this is on a budget more for music but would love to have a mobile phone connected to it for live speaking something i have always wanted to do am not getting any younger so i am going for it would be threw my pc and mic any info i would be greatful
hate being around taller building than me and 35 watts only goes about 4 or 5 miles from my place. signal is OK in the main town but poor in the countryside and goes in the next town.
SO have I, much bigger PA in them! The problem was that some didn't know what they were doing, so didn't have a clue about RF filtering. When I first started in pirate radio at 13 many years ago I didn't either. I used 2 x 2N3866 as a huge oscillator and destroyed everything for a few roads. It was only as I taught myself more and built more advanced circuits that I put some amazing sounding transmitters on the air! I was never in to DJing, just the electronics side.
Good god, thanks RUclips for the speed control. I'm falling asleep here. First off, you don't look for an open freeq at your transmitter site. You want to know what's open in the distance, preferably the fringe distance, in all directions (it will take a while). However you don't look for AN open freeq, you look for THREE open freeqs in a row, and you want the middle one. That will ensure you're stepping on neither an adjacent channel station nor are they stepping on you. But you'll never know that at your TRANSMIT site. And second, back at the beginning, you don't need to connect a dipole antenna specifically --- you just need to connect AN antenna. Dipole is one type out of dozens. And btw I've got 13 miles out of half a watt, so it's way more about antenna than power.
This would be cool with my breakaway broadcast mpx output. I would just bypass the internal encoder. The cheap china xmitters don't have mpx wave input
james borg Those Chinese transmitter are very low quality. They put out a lot of in band harmonics and the audio quality isn’t good either. Breakaway is years old, you should try Stereo Tool.
whats the range on it? probably not too far , i know the amatuer radio antenna up on the mountain gets around 75 miles dont know how much power out mabie 100? watts. mabie 2 miles with your 30 watts?
Just recently bought an SWR meter: amzn.to/2vowNWl
jakeguitar01 Your SWR meter isn’t built to measure power in the band the amp operates (147 MHz vs 106 MHz ) so don’t take the results to heart. I’d apply a fudge factor of +-15 % at least. It’ll tell you how well the antenna is tuned to freq you’re operating on for sure but as far as an quantitative transmit power level, nope.
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They were good in the 90s! A lot of stations run them, but the owner of the company was convicted a few times and fined £5000 each time for supplying the equipment. RIS in Warrington went after him constantly.
I used a PLL board in to a philips PA module from an old PMR radio, that give 20watts. Later I got hold of a PYE A200 linear amp on Band M1 which was around 106MHz. This took 13A on 13.8V and delivered a solid 65Watts. My first experiments in 1985 were with producing a 19KHz carrier to make it look like I was broadcasting stereo. Years later I built a simple encoder from a 4060 and 4053 IC that give decent separation between the channels and still works to this day!
My aerials ranged from a dipole to 4 dipoles stacked on a huge pole, then a slim jim which worked better than everything else.
I went on to be an RF Engineer because of what experimenting had taught me.
I always wanted to try MW but never got past 2Watts AM. I lost interest after building a 500W amp from audio MOSFETs and blowing it to bits.
One thing I never tried was microwave links, so took a huge risk having a full and expensive studio set up with a transmitter.
CQ, CQ!
Gosh , as a kid (14-17), I built pirate FM and AM radio stations using valves (tubes) -chips are indeed a lot easier. For aerials, I cut-to-fit 2 old Radio Shack FM cross dipoles Had to make balun coil converters, used cheap RG 58AU (I was poor) and I made a 2 BAY curricular polarised antenna syste!m! (not bad -eh?). I also converted a large (15 - 17 tubes) broad-band cable TV amplifier to a good 3 meter linear amp that eventually gave me about 20 watts ERP. I was so poor, that I had to tune everything using a light bulb dummy load (short periods) and working with a friend about a mile away with a good receiver and S meter. In the end, I think I was probably getting my SWR down to at least 1.5:1, but probably loosing a few watts in the damn cheap coax. If I could have afforded 9913, it would have been real tight.
This was a real home-made rig, but it performed as well as a 1950s RCA exciter -in fact the sound was better and louder (WITHOUT anything but a cheap compressor based on the then new optical isolator. I was able to get two isolators (for stereo) for free as samples by using a deep voice on the phone... When you are 16, have noooo money and want to play radio, you become very inventive. I was obviously doing a little better than 75K deviation and the EF86 valves in the audio stage gave me great deep bass that no other station had. -Probably some AM artifacts as well, as we came out a tad louder than any other station on the band and had a far more pleasing signal. Solid state exciters STILL do not sound as good as the old valve exciters. - but the FCC never bothered me. We kept it clean, did not interfere with any legal stations and played a lot of god music that the commercial stations would not play. We covered the entire town! Commercial FM station have all that power mostly to impress advertisers. After 500 to a 1000 watts ERP, it's the height of the aerial that matters most -not the power . FM is lone of site.
Just to check out all the new gear, circa. 1997, I built a chip PLL X-mitter, (150 watts) and put a station on the air in MANHATTAN -for the upper east side!! I used two skyscrapers behind me as rough RF directors and managed to aim a signal about 10 miles into Jersey, but I was picked-up more in QUEENS! Go figure. Again the FCC left me alone, but I was only on the air for a bout 2 weeks. -Just wanted to see if I could do it. -I could, but, it was more fun in the old days. I went back to my 1.3 KW HAM 20 metre phone station as the sunspot cycle was just too GOOD! Later I'll tell you a good 9-11 story...
73s !
Dude.....will you please bring me into the light...lol. How the hell do you set up a radio station, playing illegal content (copyright infringement of any song you don't have the legal royalty rights to), and broadcast to your local town without being sued or prosecuted? No I'm not being a smart-ass or a prick. I seriously want to know how you pulled that off cuz that's one of the coolest things I've heard. Especially in NYC. Regulation capital of the east coast. I'm not some idiot who comment's on post's because I have no life, I am extremity fluent and proficient in setting up 11 meter CB base stations and have had many friends that had their HAM's (at least I thought I was,) but never heard of someone getting away with broadcasting on the FM local channels and with that much power. I am feeling a little impressed at the moment but now I have a million more questions.....
Hey...Teach Me.
Hey Bixby, I was wondering if you had some time to explain a few things for an aspiring broadcaster.
@@stephenperrault We did it for years in years in Ireland! Sure the law come after you at times especially when taking serious advertising revenue for legal stations. Have a look at the history of pirate radio in there UK starting offshore with ships. In Ireland look at radio Nova, Dublin. At its peak it was 50KW am!
How to make a Transmitter?
I find it amazing some of the crap that comes out of peoples mouths. The guy jakeguitar01 who made this video is NOT claiming to be a professional he is just showing you whats inside the unit and how to adjust it. How can people judge the sound quality over the internet !. The guy is feeding the transmitter from a mobile phone and recording it with an average microphone and then uploading it to you tube. What are you expecting "musical fidelity". He's just showing you how the bloody thing works. As for those of you arguing about power and distance, some of you so called experts are talking sh@t. There are many things to consider when transmitting, for instance, someone listening to your output may live five miles away from you and have no buildings in the path of transmission. on the other hand, someone living one mile away may have and may not get your output. You need more power to get around buildings and into built up areas not so much the distance. I could go on but i wont. The video was educational........ give the guy a break.
It should be noted you need to make your adjustments using a plastic screw driver, not one that is conductive. It interferes with the ability to get the fine adjustment if you don't.
If can’t find plastic screw driver, use a straight wasted tooth brush handle, file into a slot screw driver in size, I had used to do it during my youth time.
We ran a pirate station in the early 2000's. I looked at some Veronica transmitters but they were expensive back then. We paid for a home made 130Watt transmitter. When I opened it up it was pure analog. There were no IC's on the board. It also came with a link transmitter which was used to send audio from one location, to the transmitter in another location. This stopped the then DTI from finding the broadcasting location if they found the transmitter. I've always wanted to know how that transmitter worked because it worked very well. Except, if you got close to it you ended up with a headache. It was probably dangerous.
The transmitter is fine, the high levels of rf you were standing is was just frying your brain. That's why you put the antenna up high where no one is around. It's even worse the higher you go in frequency. I got a real bad headache running a 2 watt 2.4GHz studio link into a high gain antenna and sitting in front of the dish not realizing it was on. Oops!
I love the old analogue circuitry. You can do anything to the transmitter. It was like a lego set.
I'm broadcasting the audio from this video on my pirate radio station! Meta!
(a Ramsey FM100)
I also have a Ramsey fm 100. I built a amp to get 1w out of it and ran it in to the 30w board inside the transmitter in this video. I didn't buy
A pre assemble transmitter but I has purchased the 30w veronica pcb about 20 years ago.
I'm re-broadcasting the broadcast of your audio from this video through an off-air repeater
you might want to use a plastic TV adjustment tool, than a metal tool, when adjusting those pots.
yep, that is a must. you could damage the pot and a long metal screw driver shaft can affect the adjustment.
@@johnrapp8816 more like you could slip and short something out.
I did 10 miles easy on 120 milliwatts just full wave high location.
I don't even know what this thing does but I watched the whole video anyway
I don't think the guy who made the video knows much about it either so don't feel bad. It's a commercially made FM Transmitter that transmits in the Medium Wave band (the commercial FM band).
Chris Cunningham Medium wave band is AM from 550 to 1600 khz, FM band VHF. 88 to 108 Mhz.
@@chriscunningham6362 You don't seem to know what you're talking about either. The "medium wave" band uses AM and is in the 530-1700 kHz range (contrary to the FM band shown in the video).
for about 10 years( 24/365) -- i have run a type certified part15 (100mw) AM TX Rangemaster with a Inovonics 222,, broadcasting city council meetings and indy music..
i get about 7 miles range .. i am on a high bank next to salt water
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
And the touch of a world that is older
Turn the switch and check the number
Leave it on when in bed I slumber
I hear the rhythms of the music
I buy the product and never use it
I hear the talking of the dj
Can't understand just what does he say?
I'm on a pirate radio
I'm on a pirate radio
I dial it in and tune the station
They talk about the u.s. inflation
I understand just a little
No comprende--it's a riddle
I'm on a pirate radio
I'm on a pirate radio
I wish I was in Tiajuana
Eating barbequed iguana
I'd take requests on the telephone
I'm on a wavelength far from home
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
I dial it in from south of the border
I hear the talking of the dj
Can't understand just what does he say?
i made a single transistor FM transmitter and with a 6foot piece of wire as an antenna INSIDE A HOUSE i can reach 1km~.
Awesome lol
@@kenpca if you want to find the schematic its the one with the yellow background. search for "FM transmitter 2n2222" on google.
Salut,
Yeaaaahhhh wonderful !
A l'epoque je connaissais l'ami qui les avait conçus. A l'heure actuelle je ne sais meme pas si il vit encore. On s'est perdu de vue y'a plus de 25ans malheureusement.
A l'epoque il utilisait des transistors finaux, PA type BLYXX. enfin tout en DIY jusqu'à l'antenne, la même que la tienne.
Qu'est-ce que j'aimerais revenir en arrière.
A l'epoque Radio Veronica transmettait depuis un bateau en mer du nord je crois.
Ou est vendu ce Kit ?
Merci encore.
Best regards.
Next project - launch a satellite tv channel.
Welcome to the 1970's.
Clive Yes I can wait
We have evolved a lot since then but backwards
Always USE non-conductive adjustment tools - not the regular tools. Could affect the circuits.
a lot of people don't understand what the fcc part 15 rules are all about. operating a non-compliant transmitter isn't illegal if you can demonstrate that you are not radiating excessive rf or harmonics that could cause interference with others. a transmitter has to be part 15 compliant if it is for sale, but if you build a transmitter from parts it does not have to be part-15 compliant as long as you don't sell it.
I tested one of these back in the day, (a "30 Watt" one) it had about 10 whole Watts on the frequency it was meant to be on, and the rest appeared as a general mush from about 47MHz (the ½f was 52.1MHz) up to over 150MHz. It was radiating slightly under a Watt on 121.5MHz, which would really piss off the local airport. There was also some output at 243MHz so even the military would be interested in getting this shut down!
so an all-in-one go to jail solution :)
@ *Scott 1* and you know this because of your vast engineering experience and education in RF right?
lol congratulations, you showed your ignorance to the world...
Sounds like there's no filter on the output. Radio Frontline in Manchester back in the early 1990s put out loads of out of band transmissions. I remember it's 100.4mhz signal also had another equally loud signal on 50.2MHz the SSB calling channel on the six metre ham band. It used to drift like nobody's business. No wonder it got shut down.
Same for the Chinese made eBay transmitters. They are pure garbage and seeing 15 watts on a meter, does not mean that you have anywhere near that wattage on the intended frequency. They are dirty AF
Had major issues with this in the early 90's with this unit. Bleed over on the Hi's and Lo's. All our kit was SWR checked. It seemed to suffer with Temperatures were it also tended to just slightly drift frequency a bit. Good at the time and for the price..
These units are pretty average in their specs and quality. A good exciter shouldn't have to have the PLL manually adjusted for lock. They're using circuit design techniques which are really antiquated. A PLL unit should not drift under any circumstances - that's why you have a PLL!
I run at 7 Watts and have a 15 foot Tower I get out 5 miles
I have a 15 watt transmitter on the way... how do i NOT get a visit from the FCC??
My 7 watt tx will also cover 15 miles, the same as my 30w and 15w. I think my limit is the Antenna height.
Did you calculate the antenna to get it to transmit that long? I bought a chinese 7W pll fm transmitter with a screen, and actually set the antenna really high, but the max range is like 700 m
It’s VHF FM so it’s very much line of sight and power matters a bit less
More power does benefit indoors reception tho
You have Jumper 1 in the wrong position! It is set for 50uS instead of 75uS. It's clearly shown on the board where this jumper should be. J2 is correct for 75uS.
You can petition FCC for a community radio, a low powered station. There are all kinds of rules to comply with, and it is not a sure thing you will get approved. They are still low powered, you have to be on air (meaning run the station daily), have community related public services and announcements, allow others access to use the station, and you will be subject to review and renewal. In other words it is not a casual thing. You have all the liability or commercial radio station with a very small range.
haha ask WRFN radio free nashville what a pain in the ASS that was with corporate radio stopping you at every turn
@gmcjetpilot - Good luck with that. The FCC hasn't accepted any LPFM applications since 2013, and has no immediate plans to start accepting them in the future. The system they have is easy to abuse, so that only the groups with the most money end up obtaining them anyway.
And besides that, they don't grant these licenses to individuals at all. Only to Non Profit organizations, universities, and emergency workers.
Best way to use the airwaves is to take them.
30 watts can go further than 15 miles
You are definitely not part 15 compliant, not even a little.
I run 100 watts and a .94 wave dominator its hilly around here I get about 10 miles with good sound I have only 40 foot of tower I have a 75 foot one for my wireless ISP but if caught I don't want the feds taking that tower !!
@The1Killerz Illegally broadcasting on FM radio without a licence.
@@XwaD666 in other words they want your money and to regulate you
You'll get a warning first as long as you aren't on a local occupied frequency or using profanity
@@CoolOldBiker We now have been at it 5 years with no problem the closest station on our frequency is 100 miles away from what we have read they don't do the warning any more the tiger teams swoop in since a FCC agent is not law enforcement they must have ether a federal cop or local police to make entry with a warrant and both the county and state police listen to us when in the area and we have been advised they will warn us if they are involved ! we have tried to get LPFM with no luck plus its so expensive and a LOT of the groups that did get licensed have turned them back in because of the fees that no one tells you about like $1000 for BMA ASCAP the $3500 for a EBS receiver and you must be on a minimum of 36 hours a week so if your not on the EBS is useless we have a weather alert radio from Wal Mart and we beat the local news by a few minuet's getting a warning out the whole thing boils down to the NAB is scared to death some one will prefer our station over a members one whats scary the NAB has lobbied IE paid off the FCC to allow mutable stations owned by the same corporation and now even the RUSSIAN media can own stations in the US and they do !! that's not good ! BTW yes we don't allow foul language on air nor do we allow Rap Hip Hop OR young country to be played and we now have a homemade profanity cut out with a funny tone of a ku ku clock bird for live phone slip ups . OH with new coax now a 15 mile range the stuff for CB RG8 is awful !
Dude.
I ran Canyon Lake Radio, 105.7 FM Canyon Lake,TX and KYOTE Radio, 105.1 fm, Terlingua, TX off that very exciter between 1996 and 2016.
Can you please give us the web where you got that transmitter .. so I can $$$bye one please!!!
I wonder what are the regulations in Lithuania. I wanna set up my own kinda like a 24 hour jukebox radio station
The 87.5-108 MHz band is a licensed band pretty much all over the world. Thus as a general rule of thumb you must NOT broadcast in that range at all and I think that most countries in Europe aren't as lenient on that rule as the US is.
best to tune transmitter into a dummy load and watt meter first! 50 ohm load. load rated for VHF or higher will be fine. also VSWR on antenna important as well tune under 1.5:1 . I have several dummy loads. check rated power and frequency.
Absolutely Awesome - everyone can build their own mini neighborhood Radio Station !
funny how you get 15miles with 30 watt since i measured to get arround 16miles w. 5w reliabely
So if I i somehow put the antenna in the stratosphere i can basically broadcast to North korea?
+Mr.Baofeng ---> now you got the idea!
They wouldnt be able to hear it as their radios only tune specific frequencies. Their local 100Kw transmitters would swamp your signal if you transmitted on the same frequency. Also if you’re on the other side of the planet, they’ll be shielded.
You didn't mention your location. If an antenna were to be extended into the stratosphere however, your transmit signal would be absorbed by your feedline after a few hundred feet, and no signal would make it TO your antenna. If your proximity is within 10 -20 miles of N. Korea, you would see a good chance of being received with an antenna up only 30 - 40 meters and a transmitter of 100 watts. What is your location? I can have someone listening for you in the area you are speaking of.
Cool, i live in the uk and i have one of these veronica transmitters along with the veronica compressor limiter. RARE.
Slt,
Oui il est fait avec un NE 571 ou un truc du genre, un super AOP en gros. Bien réglé sur une K7, le son était ausi propre qu'un CD, mm plus doux, moins "saccadé". Sans bruit de fond avec une plage dynamique énorme. 😉
Best regards.
Definitely, the compressor/limiter was quite expensive and I do not know of any other surviving ones. I used a Behringer Composer Pro on the audio in to my home made stereo encoder, PLL TX and 65 Watt ex-PMR amp.
So now in 2024 what FM transmitters can we buy? Any similar to this veronica??
what good is it if your only allowed 200 feet.i could almost spit that far.
A question for the guy who did this video I've got a 7watt FM trasmitter at the moment here in the UK and my antenna is 40tf above ground level if I get a 15watt fm trasmitter and keep my antenna at 40ft at 15watts how many miles should that get me because at the moment it for a 4miles on 7watts?
More power is not the answer. More height is. 40 ft off the ground isn't high enough. It's why they put FM transmitters on mountain tops.
Screw complying with FCC Part 15 rules. I’d be taking that thing up to 30 watts and going for a drive to see how far it goes. It wouldn’t be on long enough for someone to do something about it anyway.
Meh, the music purportedly received via the radio sounded the same as when your cell phone has played it through its abysmal speakers. I smell something fishy here....
So, when you put this illegal transmitter on the air and operate your unlicensed station, are you gonna pop all your "P's" like you're doing in this video?
Really good demostration.
Nice. Set up a radio station in London. Wasn’t mine but helped set the rig up but we had a thing called a link box. From the mixer in the studio to a link box then face the dipole towards the transmitter and have another link box with dipole facing the studio on the transmitter. Think we was like 250 watts at one point. 😂😂 20 foot scaffold pole on a tower block over looking London. Had the manager of Thames fm ring up and ask if we could change frequencies. Bleeding over a legal station 😂 DTI was on us like a rash.
Tienes todavía el equipo? Puedes decirme el modelo del 3:10 power adjustment?
If your antenna is at least 60ft or more in hight if that's at 30watts it should be 30miles because your antenna should be high enough then it should work out at 1watt per mile.
That is no where near part 90! For at least a dozen reasons
I run 100 watts on Haloween, and get 15 miles. See my youtube video
Legal is determined by if it excedes a field strength greater than 100uV at 3 meters distance into a one meter antenna. So, not legal.
Radio caroline had massive power on 558 on am
hola según entiendo el sistema verónica es ya obsoleto por que falla en la estabilidad de frecuencia , ya los chinos y sus transmisores de fm caseros superaron esa tecnología hace rato y por experiencia el alcance con esos 30 watt no es mas de 10 kilómetros sin que ya por la perdida de señal requiera mejorar la recepción de esa transmisión con antenas mas altas. curvatura de la tierra.
archaic
Wow just think if you ran 500 or 1000 watts with that rig & had the antenna on a tower❗
You guys are heroes. Thanks for this.
Fixed plenty of these old transmitters, crystal based though so Audio was tinny and thin compared to transistor multiplier circuit based transmitters which have a much fuller sound as they are not restricted by the crystal.
I assume more modern are easier to track if FCC wanted to hunt someone down?
Rubbish! Tinny audio was caused by not modulating it correctly, so possibly poor audio equipment in use. They were all set to the same FM deviation of +/-75KHz. They would do this as a maximum before sounding distorted, so anything lower was the users fault. It doesn't matter how a frequency is generated, PLL or crystal, that has nothing to do with the FM deviation level itself.
you couldve played ac/dc or led zep if there was no copyright
8:17 wrong hole!! wrong hole!!!!!
Mi fa piacere che qualcuno ancora si diverte con questi apparati, a me purtroppo non da piu' lo stimolo poiche' lo progettatati pari pari nel 1980
quando non c'era ne la rete e pochi libri, allora si che era divertente!
Hi do you have a contact number for Veronica in the uk...I found a web site but it seems closed. Do they still exist...?
They changed their name to Aareff
you must be really popular with the ladies ☺️
I’m sorry but midi keyboards don’t have audio outputs
D Roberts Not true. There are plenty of midi keyboards with audio out.
@@edrogers8325 thats what i was thinking
Turn the power up all the way...
The sound quality is poor.
Yep its thin and tinny sound because its crystal based oscillator, transistor oscillator multiplier designs much nicer sound as not restricted by crystal bandwidth, they did put out good power though.
That is because he is not using any audio processing.
@@knoxieman The crystal has nothing to do with it. Commercial transmitters used by FM stations are also crystal locked and they sound pretty damn good. It comes down to the quality of the transmitter and the audio processing used.
@@radioengineering8247 in this case it sounds bad because he is running a speaker-level signal from his phone directly into the stereo coder which is a line-level input, but he also is not using any audio limiting aka broadcast processing. with the proper airchain these veronica transmitters sound great and produce a clean, harmonic-free output.
@@knoxieman the veronica pll's are not crystal-based.
Big Up Veronica...had the pleasure of meeting a couple of times back in the early 90`s when we ran his rigs on our station.... nuff respect.
I just use a raspberry pi zero which with a 2 cm wire, can transmit around 10m... imagine if I hooked it up to the dipole antenna
Did you try mounting the pi outdoor on a small pole and test the range ?
@@RakshithPrakash No and I am not willing too as it is illegal in my area (even if transmitting low power, low range, for a short time)
*knock door* FFC open up!
rumahhafidzah bekasi FCC.
Ahn, ahn, ahn, awf, awf, ahn... LOL
What's the best frequency to transmitt on for distance?
One that os clear in all the areas you want to cover. Really, it is as simple as that. You need to have a listen in different areas, look at which legal stations are about etc. I used to listen to Dimension FM on 92.2MHz in the North West. They had a TX on the TV mast on The Wrekin. No one around the area used 92.2 so it was ideal for a huge range. They were also heard by another station in Manchester.
106.9 is a station in wishinhton state
KenictheFanaticFunFox Missouri as well
Hello my friend I would appreciate it if you tell me where I can find one of these transmitters?
Here's the company who make this one; www.veronica-kits.co.uk/30wtx.htm
As the man says in the intro; ALWAYS USE AN SWR METER
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To adjust the pll lock. You should use a non metalized screwdriver. Otherwise it changes each time .
You are NOT complying with the rules by turning it all the way down. The transmitter is not part 15 approved especially with that antenna.
Overpriced Aereff/Veronica piece of junk. Based on a poor design and puts out a bad signal.
где ты откопал этот антиквариат?
Is that all ? Think you are doing something wrong, I can get out more than that with 1watt
I have got 27.7 miles on a 0.5 watt output transmitted into a vertical vhf antenna mounted 60 ft above ground I could work the world on 30 watts. 😊 peace ✌
Pete uk radio amateur mw6zan what equipment do you have? And how did you set it up? I’m ready to take my station from internet to the fm dial. Pls help?
Ever see the field radios "horn" used in the war in Vietnam? Usually one dude had it on his back, a telephone type mic/reciever, and 30+ feet of antenna when folded out. As I recall the two main selector dials each with neer endless choice of clicks , utilizing both knobs at once , I have no idea how they knew what channel to use but I do know as kids my friends and I could talk over fm radio and local TV programs . Every time we voiced over the program his dad was watching , accidentally, he knew we had found his new hiding spot , rigged up batteries, and the shit hit the fan😃 .....I should call him
I like your header telling how to make a pirate radio but at the bottom you say " please follow all FCC rules" if I did that then watching the video is a moot point lol.
So.. we all have fm transmitters, we swr/tune our antennas, then we drive about 5,6,7 miles to see how far we are getting out, BUT the truth is WE are the only people who listen to our own broadcasts, lmfao
Lol never know
Great for apocalypse though ha ha
Hello Brother congratulations for your nice transmitter.
I need a 1 Kavita FM transmitter circuit diagram. its I want from you. are you help me? please please please!!
Where can I but a I'm Transmitter
Funny thing is that @5:30 I'm literally watching this video at 3:00 am and can't sleep lol
so where can I buy this transmitter?
eBay
i am in an island in scotland i am in the center there's a large pole stand where i can place the pole can anyone tell me what i would need to reach 5 to 10 mils from me to be heard this is on a budget more for music but would love to have a mobile phone connected to it for live speaking something i have always wanted to do am not getting any younger so i am going for it would be threw my pc and mic any info i would be greatful
If you abide by the rules I dont see that you're a pirate station.
Looking for a transmitter and antenna anyone help me out need to cover 30 miles?
What does 'transmittion' mean? I suppose the FCC did not wrote it this way...
hate being around taller building than me and 35 watts only goes about 4 or 5 miles from my place. signal is OK in the main town but poor in the countryside and goes in the next town.
You need to get above those buildings. All the power in the world won't get you out when you're lower than the buildings around you.
You need a Dominator aerial to make it GO. SWR will be zero
"CHEAP"
$350 is cheap for 30 watts compared to what you would find running in service on actual low power stations
as a UK pirate I've seen hundreds of these converted to run more power usually around 70watts on the right tower it got out really well.
SO have I, much bigger PA in them! The problem was that some didn't know what they were doing, so didn't have a clue about RF filtering. When I first started in pirate radio at 13 many years ago I didn't either. I used 2 x 2N3866 as a huge oscillator and destroyed everything for a few roads. It was only as I taught myself more and built more advanced circuits that I put some amazing sounding transmitters on the air! I was never in to DJing, just the electronics side.
Dipoles are inherently 72 ohms at resonance.
Mr...jangkauannya brp km ?? Trs harganya brp..
Good god, thanks RUclips for the speed control. I'm falling asleep here.
First off, you don't look for an open freeq at your transmitter site. You want to know what's open in the distance, preferably the fringe distance, in all directions (it will take a while). However you don't look for AN open freeq, you look for THREE open freeqs in a row, and you want the middle one. That will ensure you're stepping on neither an adjacent channel station nor are they stepping on you. But you'll never know that at your TRANSMIT site.
And second, back at the beginning, you don't need to connect a dipole antenna specifically --- you just need to connect AN antenna. Dipole is one type out of dozens. And btw I've got 13 miles out of half a watt, so it's way more about antenna than power.
This would be cool with my breakaway broadcast mpx output. I would just bypass the internal encoder. The cheap china xmitters don't have mpx wave input
james borg i also have china xmiter and cze xmitter have had any results on mpx bypass? also check out stereo tool software fm rds out
The cheap china transmitters have a cheap modulator chip that is amplified with a 5 watt transistor for higher output.
Yes they are but i also tryed it with rds encoder with another schemtic i followed to build a audio attenuator with rds board work a charm
james borg Those Chinese transmitter are very low quality. They put out a lot of in band harmonics and the audio quality isn’t good either. Breakaway is years old, you should try Stereo Tool.
whats the range on it? probably not too far , i know the amatuer radio antenna up on the mountain gets around 75 miles dont know how much power out mabie 100? watts. mabie 2 miles with your 30 watts?
fm broadcast range is highly dependent on antenna height over terrain, the higher the antenna the longer the range.
"Cheap?" .. it's over $1000
Wait... isn't this shit illegal?
Pirate - meaning
where is all low frequencys gone!!!???????¿?????
Nice video, audio was flat though
Thanks