Just recently bought an SWR meter: amzn.to/2vowNWl

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 !

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.

I love the old analogue circuitry. You can do anything to the transmitter. It was like a lego set.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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..

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 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!

Absolutely Awesome - everyone can build their own mini neighborhood Radio Station !

I'm broadcasting the audio from this video on my pirate radio station! Meta! (a Ramsey FM100)

you might want to use a plastic TV adjustment tool, than a metal tool, when adjusting those pots.

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.

Really good demostration.

Cool, i live in the uk and i have one of these veronica transmitters along with the veronica compressor limiter. RARE.

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 did 10 miles easy on 120 milliwatts just full wave high location.

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.

I don't even know what this thing does but I watched the whole video anyway

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.

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.

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.

Always USE non-conductive adjustment tools - not the regular tools. Could affect the circuits.

My 7 watt tx will also cover 15 miles, the same as my 30w and 15w. I think my limit is the Antenna height.

3 miles in suburb/urban area. get at least 50 watt for 6 miles in suburban and urban areas. FM is hard to transmit on, you can get a 1000 watt shortwave transmitter for $375.

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.

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.

Can you please give us the web where you got that transmitter .. so I can $$$bye one please!!!

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.

what good is it if your only allowed 200 feet.i could almost spit that far.

Funny thing is that @5:30 I'm literally watching this video at 3:00 am and can't sleep lol

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.

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

30 watts can go further than 15 miles

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?

So if I i somehow put the antenna in the stratosphere i can basically broadcast to North korea?

Tienes todavía el equipo? Puedes decirme el modelo del 3:10 power adjustment?

I wonder what are the regulations in Lithuania. I wanna set up my own kinda like a 24 hour jukebox radio station

You guys are heroes. Thanks for this.

I run at 7 Watts and have a 15 foot Tower I get out 5 miles

i made a single transistor FM transmitter and with a 6foot piece of wire as an antenna INSIDE A HOUSE i can reach 1km~.

I remember a pirate radio station in the late 90's around Gary Indiana that use to play uncut music.

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.

To adjust the pll lock. You should use a non metalized screwdriver. Otherwise it changes each time .

Next project - launch a satellite tv channel.

Radio caroline had massive power on 558 on am

Welcome to the 1970's.

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.

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.

How can I get a fm transmitter that will allow for me to broadcast to an entire city? (Around 50- 100 - maybe 150 sq miles). And how much will it cost for me to get the proper licensing for me to play copyrighted / commercial mainstream music? Also where would I purchase this stuff from?

Wow just think if you ran 500 or 1000 watts with that rig & had the antenna on a tower❗

funny how you get 15miles with 30 watt since i measured to get arround 16miles w. 5w reliabely

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 !!

underrated jam dude, nice

In the US, unless you're a licensed radio amateur and testing on amateur-authorized frequencies, the fact that your transmitter is missing the FCC's part 15 compliance tag (it wouldn't qualify for one anyway) means you're not quite "in compliance with part 15". It doesn't matter if you *say* the "power is turned all the way down". Just a point of interest you can research yourself. Nothing toxic and nobody will hold you accountable ... just technical, unless you interfere with someone, which *is* possible to do with 30 watts.

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?

very well built tx I have all the nrg gear which to me has the edge on Veronica gear near identical .Paul and Mr moss split the business after some bad things going on. and I then chose Mr moss over Paul as he was the much better rf engineer.

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

What does 'transmittion' mean? I suppose the FCC did not wrote it this way...

very nice transmitter

What's the best frequency to transmitt on for distance?

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

Hello my friend I would appreciate it if you tell me where I can find one of these transmitters?

How far do you think I can get on 6w?

can't find where to buy one online

Does this really transmit 15 miles?

you couldve played ac/dc or led zep if there was no copyright

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

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!!

Turn the power up all the way...

Where can I but a I'm Transmitter

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...?

Any link for the antenna?

You are definitely not part 15 compliant, not even a little.

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?

That is no where near part 90! For at least a dozen reasons

106.9 is a station in wishinhton state

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.

Dipoles are inherently 72 ohms at resonance.

so where can I buy this transmitter?

Looking for a transmitter and antenna anyone help me out need to cover 30 miles?

archaic

When was that xmitter built? That is literally 1970's technology in that thing.

What do you tell the FCC when they look at your equipment for running a pirate station.

6 miles max for me in large town. completely give up and forget about FM broadcasting, its impossible with these micro powers, like 30 watts. The minimum is 100 watts. So i just switched to 6925 khz shortwave, FM broadcast band is noisy ass bullcrap.

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You need a Dominator aerial to make it GO. SWR will be zero

где ты откопал этот антиквариат?

Thanks

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 what ? there's now hundreds of models for sale, and completely tunable form 88 - 108 mHz.

Good god, thanks KZfaq 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.

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

congratulation

where is all low frequencys gone!!!???????¿?????

I’m sorry but midi keyboards don’t have audio outputs