An FM Broadcast Transmitter For Your Home

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."

Comments

wow

[Tickle Cricket]

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

Re:wow

[tuxter]

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.

Re:wow

[totipotentsoul]

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!

Re:wow

[l1gunman]

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?

Re:wow

[zero_offset]

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

Correction to article..

[Anonymous Coward]

should read..

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

Come on people

[Neil Blender]

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

Or...

[Tickle Cricket]

you could just turn your speakers all the way up.

Station Content

[halcyon1234]

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

Re:Station Content

[mwvdlee]

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

I'd like the 2 watt version

[eric76]

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.

Convoy!

[redled]

We got a great big convoy...

Re:Receiver?

[Triumph The Insult C]

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

Re:Don't Let Howard or Janet come over.

[gwayne]

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...