Living in a quaint green leafy village but with cool vibe, relaxed, summer evenings, go to the outskirts of the village, climb over the rock built farmers wall with your DJ buddy to to the high point in the little outcrop of trees, with a nice gentle breeze swishing through the tree tops, foxgloves flowering and wild flowers and fresh smell of flowers and put the high quality stereo 0.5W-1W rig up in whatever way possible to cover this and the 2-3 surrounding villages. Goes 4-5 miles over the green and pleasant hills due to clear frequencies and valleys and people tune in on a Friday evening in their nice little houses, pre made 3 hour shows made an hour each weekday evening. God home and sit in garden with radio on and chill out. Just a nice thought, cannot be a reality sadly, but it is nice to think about it.

Back to do the dishes.

Ifn you want to cover 5 miles in stereo and not be hissy you'd need 40 or 50 Watts to be comfortable. I notice there isn't a whopping mast with a geansai full of dipoles spoiling the view in your reverie, 40 or 50 Watts is your buddy in that case...

Hiss is fine it makes it sound far away, that add to the experience in some way and super low power is interesting.

yellowbeard wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:10 pm Ifn you want to cover 5 miles in stereo and not be hissy you'd need 40 or 50 Watts to be comfortable. I notice there isn't a whopping mast with a geansai full of dipoles spoiling the view in your reverie, 40 or 50 Watts is your buddy in that case...

It is also because I missed one option being about fashioning a GPA using dried, correctly sized branches in the bushes before hand, using 2mm thick copper cable with a brown sheath super glued onto the branches which is not quite vertical or straight and is indistinguishable from the top of the tree, a scrambled looking GPA. 3 radials but not critically well aligned as low power would not require it Maybe 58-60ohms. The site is 50m above the roofs of the villages at least. The tree being fairly easy to climb has a brown painted mast going up at the top that is about 3m long with a twig GPA attached for a lossless close enough to tx match,maybe 1.8:1.

Could be 12v or 5v operation, better to be 5V, then rig,mp3,power box all gaffered to mast, 1w maximum, Rig power off a mobile phone, lithium emergency pack, all waterproofed, maybe all sealed in a plastic food container with a silicon sealed lid, fully charged mp3 player, minijack from audio on mini PLL pcb. Brown spray painted. With a small bolt in bottom with 3 radial legs solder tagged onto a nut and bolt poking through the plastic box with silicon sealant waterproofing it, main element comes out of the top silicon blob sealed against rain is second option.

Something like that, its a good station playing all sort of music something for everyone.

Well, we can all dream. I just need 1/2 a million pound to go and buy a cottage in the countryside first.

I hereby nominate the transmitter site as the outskirts of Upper Bottomsley-Thrubmandeville-on-Edge.

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-englis ... mes-signs/

Being a responsible day dreamer I would use a small 12v lead acid battery, securely fixed. And not a lithium due to the fire risk. On a hot day in the summer it might overheat and catch fire, that would be very bad.

I got hills on 3 sides of me here, but good takeoff to the North and East - the main monitoring station for comreg is smack in the middle of that at about 5 or 6 miles distance. There is also about 250,000 people, but I am too chickenshit yellowbelly to chance it. I know guys that have gotten away with a 250 Watt FM and a 400 Watt MW at the weekends from a better site than I got, really badly chickenshit so...