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An FM Broadcast Transmitter For Your Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-air dept.

Bruce Perens writes "I wanted to be able to listen to net audio and my ham station around the house and yard. Those iPod FM transmitters don't have enough range. So, I bought a digital controlled, 100 miliwatt transmitter that covered my whole block the first time I plugged it into what was, until then, a recieving antenna."

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  1. wow by Tickle+Cricket · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now every kid on the block will have their own radio station!! won't that be fun for like.... a week?

    1. Re:wow by tuxter · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't forget, the mental agility of the aforementioned participant is inversely proportional to the length and volume of pleasure. i.e. the stupider you are, the funner it is for longer.

    2. Re:wow by totipotentsoul · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bart: [over the radio] Rod! Todd! This is God!
      Rod: How did you get on the radio?
      Bart: Whaddya mean, how did I get on the radio? I created the universe!
      Stupid kid.
      Todd+Rod: [fall to their knees and clasp their hands]
      Todd: Forgive my brother. We believe you.
      Bart: Talk is cheap. Perhaps I'll test a guy's faith. Walk through the wall! I will remove it for you.
      Rod: [walks into the wall] [thud]
      Bart: Ha ha ha.
      Todd+Rod: [return to their knees in prayer]
      Todd: What do you want from us?
      Bart: I got a job for you. Bring forth all the cookies from your kitchen and leave them on the Simpsons' porch.
      Rod: But those cookies belong to our parents.
      Bart: Ugh! Look, do you want a happy God or a vengeful God?
      Todd: [quickly] Happy God.
      Bart: Then quit flapping your lip and make with the cookies!
      Todd+Rod: Yes, sir!

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    3. Re:wow by l1gunman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Lucky you! When I was a kid, my parents were too poor to buy a pair of walkie talkies, so they bought just one. My brother and I took turns talking to each other on it. Of course, the range wasn't too good.

      Can you hear me now?

    4. Re:wow by zero_offset · · Score: 2, Funny

      You have an unusually broad definition of the word "dangerous".

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    5. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      You have an unusually broad definition of the word "dangerous".

      You've never seen how some people can get when you "fuzz out" a tv at a critical point in a sporting event. I would call that dangerous ;)

  2. Correction to article.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    should read..

    " ...that covered my whole block the first time I plugged this product on Slashdot."

  3. Come on people by Neil+Blender · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't we all learn our lesson from "Pump up the Volume"?

  4. Or... by Tickle+Cricket · · Score: 3, Funny

    you could just turn your speakers all the way up.

  5. Station Content by halcyon1234 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you play music, can the RIAA sue the air for abetting the distribution of copyrighted material?

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    1. Re:Station Content by mwvdlee · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes! All air should be removed immediately, starting with the air in the RIAA buildings ;)

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  6. I'd like the 2 watt version by eric76 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would have been great for around the farm when I was a kid.

    While driving the tractor about 60 hours a week throughout the summer, I had my choice of precisely two stations. One was country and western and the other covered things like little league baseball games and the farm reports.

    There still would have been a problem -- I didn't have anything at home that would have been worth broadcasting. After all, attaching a microphone and listening to the dogs barking occasionally would have gotten old real quick.

  7. Convoy! by redled · · Score: 2, Funny

    We got a great big convoy...

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  8. Re:Receiver? by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: 2, Funny

    my walkman cost $20. if you know where to get ipods for $20, lemme know

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  9. Dude get with the times by type40 · · Score: 1, Funny

    The jews did not do the wtc, the pentagon yes but not the wtc.
    The Homos' did the wtc. It's all part of their plan to bring the Nazi party back to power after reducing the US population down to a bunch of subservient rednecks.

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  10. Re:Don't Let Howard or Janet come over. by gwayne · · Score: 4, Funny

    The terrorists have already taken over. ClearChannel killed my favorite 35-year-old rock station in favor of Latino hip-hop. If that's not terrorism, I don't know what is...

  11. Re:Don't Let Howard or Janet come over. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Latino hip hop and rap cracks me up.

    How hard is it, really, when all of your words end in A or O. Rapping is dead easy in Spanish.

    What would impress me is Vietnamese or Chinese rap.