couldn’t believe I actually found this again, video were turned the triodes from the energy 106 transmitter into two lamps, make good ear rings/lamps, the part when he said he’d broadcast to belfast on 95.8fm sounded like it was direct but the coolest thing. Wonder if that was different spelling of capital fm, i did find a station with a simliar name i was amused by the spelling.

When he starts making the jingles for intelligence transfer squencer it is not something to be missed. It was upgraded the triode in the energy transmitter to 6 or 8kw, often run at half power was clever they lasted longer, (never though they did this at big stations too) the ones in kiss, 1.5 ones were run at full pelt, so it could really take off achieve full thunderpants operation. Its interesting he said the last one was taken away he managed to get it back, do wonder if energy had become to powerful 800kw erp, sounded like something happened prior to the big raid in may 2005, maybe someone official had taken something the valve away that was fundamental running of it?

I always wondered about the energy exciter, weather it was a special type, it always sounded clear even when it was weak, the modulation index was kept low, sounds like it was all to do with the processing not the actual transmitter at all, what modulation index is I don't know. I did wonder if it might turn up on ebay, if its out there some were, maybe at some community station.

The valves contain same stuff as in a magnetron you wouldn’t go sawing them apart. Miles is wiring them up to transformers making them into lamps, they are simliar to light bulbs, likely rated to work for so many hours.
Nice to look at, electromagnetic waves emitted in the visible light wasted energy though, looks like theres noway to get high power without the warm glow of a nice valve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triode

The exciters Miles used were the NRG Pro II and Pro III. He had tried others, including the Broadcast Warehouse offerings, and most of them were wildly unstable with all the RF flying about! I pointed out to him that the NRG exciter oscillators were at half frequency, so wouldn't suffer from RF feedback problems. Stephen provided Miles with a couple of them, and they were installed successfully - completely stable, with nice, clean, low noise carriers.

The processing they used on the audio was pretty aggressive, but kept them at a consistently high modulation level, without over-deviation. It always sounded LOUD, bt in common with most highly processed audio, it becomes tiring to listen to. I remember some discussion about whether the high amount of compression could actually be losing them listeners.

All things considered, Miles probably ran the most powerful FM pirates ever - anywhere! I can remember hearing Energy on the west coast of Scotland on a pretty average car radio, in fully noise-quietening stereo for the entire journey! The stations could also be heard elsewhere (as you know), and my brother could hear one of them in Brittany - effectively off the back of the antenna array!

It was a remarkable piece of engineering!

I might of had a pro lll, (the pro II looks to have trimmers I never had) shame this stuff is long gone, along with the radio stations too, I miss energy everyday even though it was over 20 years ago since I last heard it. Years ago remember reading Lawrence John had been on riveria, some station in the south of france or Italy I don’t know.
Albert is there no small box that would do audio compression, I tried ‘really good audio compressor’ not so long ago, it sounded not very good at all, didn’t seem to doing much either. Is a behringer any good? sounds like someone should not be trying to get the sound of energy 106.

Maybe abit over kill to get something to a nearby radio, I do miss it, I suppose the choice would be the behringer, software, would be better to make your own, I can only deal with through hole components here. I do feel like i'm the only person on these forums to of liked energy, I think it was not underground enough I don't know.