Re: FM sender with DDAR

[jonny.g.farmer@xxxxxxx]

Ihave the Veronica 500Mw transmitter with a 12v 400ma power supply.
With the standard wire, and properly earthed it gives me 75m range.

Question: Can I reduce the power by using a lower voltage supply?

Cheers

Jonathan

P.S. I a newbie to HA, and have lurked for a while - you all seem
such helpful chaps (and chapesses - Jenni :-) ) I thought you would
help!!

--- In ukha_d@y..., "steve@b..." <steve@b...> wrote:
> I think I remember seeing somewhere that it is legal t  transmit on
the
> radio band, but only for VERY short distances. Dn't remember where,
think it
> was a library book on home made radio trasnmitters which I read a
while ago.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@h...>
> To: <ukha_d@y...>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:47 PM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: FM sender with DDAR
>
>
> > >
> > >Thats the legal position, but as Paul says, if no-one knows
about it then
> > >nothing will happen. Just dont tune it t  a frequency where
someone will
> > >overhear it or it wipes out a genuine radio station. IT
probably
wont go
> > >for
> > >more then a few hundred metres anyway....unless you buy the
bigger ones
> in
> > >which case you are asking to be caught.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > And there speaketh the voice of the all-knowing Keith! - quite
right
> too! -
> > my testing suggests I am only getting about 30 metres range
(although I
> know
> > it "should" be able t  go t  a great deal more than
that...), and
when I
> > tuned it I did so by turning my Hi-Fi on, manually tuning through
the
> > appropriate part of the FM band until I could hear nothing
recognisable at
> > all, and then tuning the transmitter t  that frequency. Thus I
know I am
> not
> > interfering with anything else locally.
> >
> > Paul G.
> >