2012年8月31日星期五

In 1957 the Collins radio company launched the KWM-1 transceiver

Because of the possibility of receiving signals over a great distance, ten meter radio has a considerable following, including the ten-ten club, an international organisation for radio enthusiasts who enjoy the challenges and opportunities of the ten meter band. The ten meter band was opened to technician class licensed radio amateurs in 1987 and in 2007 the requirement for a Morse Code test as part of the licensing process was dropped. It is NOT part of CB radio which is unlicensed. CB is restricted to the 11meter band and to lower power transceivers. Arthur Collins, founder of the Collins best radio transmitter company, and a very prominent figure in the history of amateur radio, was one of two participants in the test General leMay carried out.
In 1957 the Collins radio company launched the KWM-1 transceiver, the first mobile transceiver and the first to use SSB. Collins radio placed all their emphasis on SSB rather than AM equipment, with the result that since 1957 SSB has been the effective standard for long distance radio transmission by voice. During World War II radio station equipment communications advanced quickly and the use of SSB spread to amateur radio operators. General Curtis leMay, who, in 1951, had become the youngest four star general in US history (since Ulysses S Grant), was Commander of SAC (Strategic Air Command) in the 1950’s. He was also an amateur radio enthusiast and well aware of the debate over the use of standard AM or SSB. SAC were planning to get rid of radio operators on their new aircraft and intending to use AM equipment, so General leMay had tests carried out to investigate the difference between the two modes of communication. In two flights, one to Okinawa and one to Greenland, SSB trounced the conventional AM systems leading SAC to adopt SSB as the standard for their new bomber, the B52. Single Side Band is a modification of amplitude modulation which makes more efficient use of power as well as bandwidth. Originally known as SSSC (single side band suppressed carrier) the technique was patented in 1915 and in 1927 a commercial radiotelephone service was set up to use SSB for transatlantic communication. The cost was $75 for three minutes, equivalent to more than $760 today.
The 10 meter wave band (frequencies 28 MHz to 29.7 MHz) is part of the shortwave spectrum where a great deal of Morse code transmission can be found. For those interested in voice transmission, SSB (single side band) is available on frequencies from 28.3 MHz to 28.5 MHz with 28.4 MHz the designated calling frequency. Many radio amateurs enjoy the process of contacting like minded individuals in far away countries, as well a sending and receiving QSL cards to show the extent of their contacts. With relatively small antennas, ten meter radio is a great ‘place’ to gain experience in antenna building and to practice for a higher class of amateur radio license. If you dream of far away places with strange sounding names, the 10 meterradio broadcast equipment may be exactly what you are looking for. Ten meters is primarily a day time waveband; in the USA it is often possible to hear Europe in the morning, all of the Americas midday and the Pacific and East Asia in the evening. Traffic varies considerably, but the major attraction of the ten meter band is that it is possible to make contact over very large distances, especially at times of high solar activity. 。

The ARRL represents its members by lobbying Congress and the FCC and performs a similar role internationally.

It has not all been plain sailing since that time but through it all amateur radio has gone from strength to strength. More and more 'hams' have joined the ranks and continue to, not only enjoy their hobby but have fun doing it. At times of emergency and disaster there are many unsung heroes among the ARRL's amateur enthusiasts. History repeated itself during WWII with amateurs being told once again to leave the air and take down their antennas. Thousands of amateurs served in the conflict and as soon as the war was over the bands began to open again. The 1930s were a difficult period as the Great Depression took it's toll. Hiram Percy Maxim died in 1936. In 1925 the International Amateur radio broadcast transmitter Union was formed. It's headquarters are still in Newington. In 1923 a two way contact between Connecticut and France bridged the Atlantic for the first time. After the armistice in 1919 the amateurs were allowed to put up their antennas again but only for receiving. With the long lapse in activity the ARRL had exactly $33 in the kitty. They implemented a financial plan where they sold bonds to members and managed to raise $7500, bought QST from its owner, Clarence Taska, and in November amateur radio was fully restored. Up to this time the ARRL had been run entirely by the two friends but owing to it's huge success something more formal was called for. A constitution was adopted and directors and officers elected. The President was Hiram Maxim and the Secretary Clarence Taska and membership was opened to anyone interested in radio. No sooner was this done than all amateurs received a letter from the Dept. of Commerce ordering them all off the air and all antenna had to be taken down. The USA had entered WW1. In 1916 membership was almost 1000 and in February 1917 there came a breakthrough, a message was sent from New York to Los Angeles and an answer received within one hour twenty minutes. In early 1915 ARRL split from the club and became incorporated under Connecticut law. However finances were very poor, the only income came from message blanks, maps and booklets. But ARRL kept growing and by March they had 600 stations on the roster, and some stations claimed communications of over 1000 miles. It was clear that something was needed to keep in touch with the members and Hiram and Clarence financed the first issue of QST but later issues had to be paid for through subscriptions of $1.00 per year. One night in April 1914 he tried in vain to send a message to another 'ham' 30 miles away in Springfield, Massachusetts which was well within his normal range. He then remembered that he had another contact in Windsor Locks which was about half the distance away, he contacted him and asked him to relay the message to Springfield which was done successfully.This set Hiram thinking, most of amateur radio activity in those days consisted of sending and receiving messages but the maximum range of a station was a few hundred miles at most which made Hiram realise that a formally organized relay system could be of tremendous use to the radio ham and the public alike. At the next club meeting he put forward a plan for the organization of an American Radio Relay League, the club agreed to sponsor the development of the organization and ARRL was born. Membership was limited to highly qualified amateurs only and to their surprise by September there were 230 radio broadcast equipment on their books. Hiram Percy Maxim of Hartford, Connecticut was a well known business man, inventor and engineer and was an active member of the Radio Club of Hartford, he also had one of the best equipped stations in his area. Local and regional activities of ARRL are carried out through its Field Organization which divides its 15 divisions into 71 separate regions called Sections. One of its most important functions is organizing emergency communications in the event of natural or civil disasters. Each section of ARES, (American Radio Emergency Services) has an appointed Section Emergency Coordinator. ARES also supports training and organizes regular practise exercises and establishes Memorandums of Understanding with relief agencies and government and has provided essential emergency communications a great many times throughout the leagues history. The American radio station equipment Relay League was founded in 1914 and is the USA's largest membership organization for radio amateurs, with over 154,000. It is a non profit making organisation that provides both technical advice and assistance to amateur enthusiasts as well as supporting a number of educational programs throughout the US. It is also the primary representative organization of amateur radio operators. The ARRL represents its members by lobbying Congress and the FCC and performs a similar role internationally.

Jennifer Louden is a best-selling author of five books

Jennifer Louden is a best-selling author of five books, including her classic, The Woman's Comfort Book, and her newest, Comfort Secrets for Busy Women. She's also a creativity and life coach, creator of the Inner Organizer, and a columnist for Body + Soul Magazine. She leads retreats on self-care and creativity around the country. Hear her live on Martha Stewart Living Radio, Sirius Channel 112 every Sunday at 8 am Pacific, 11 am Eastern. Visit her world at: http://www.fmuser.org I call this 'raising the bar'...never being satisfied with what we do or experience. Therefore, we rarely feel nourished or experience contentment. We live more and more in a place of 'not enough' and farther and farther away from our center and natural shape of our lives. Minimum requirements are the foundation of Self-Care. Of course, like the tide, requirements ebb and flow depending on life conditions and age. So, the next time you sit down to make your list of goals, start with your basic requirements first (rather than thinking they will just fit into your schedule without your conscious intent). You may wonder why I ask you to state minimum requirements. Wouldn't it be far better to name your ideals and strive for those? My experience has been that when I kept a list of everything I wanted to do for myself -- or thought would be good for me -- I made commitments I was incapable of keeping. Yearly:- A spiritual retreat of some kind especially in nature- Time with my extended family, especially my sisters Monthly:- An afternoon alone doing whatever I want when I want to- A date with my husband Weekly:- Pay bills and balance checking account- Date with my entire family doing something fun- My women's group- Kitchen desk organized and kitchen medium deep cleaned Daily:- 8 hours of sleep each night, 1 nap on one weekend afternoon- Time to myself in the morning before anyone else is awake- Protein for breakfast- Be near or touch plants and dirt or rocks and water: watch a river or take a bath or walk in rain or pay attention when drinking- Be outdoors- Have a time each day that all 'have to's' stop -- for right now it is 8:00 PM As an example, take a look at which bare minimums are important to Self-Care reader, Lynn: Yet when you reach a certain level of consciousness (and age!), if you neglect your basics, you notice the fallout a lot faster and you realize you have a lot less leeway to stray from what is essential to you. long range fm transmitterWhen you reach a certain stage of commitment to yourself, you find that you are more than willing to give whatever attention and energy is needed to sustain your basics. Which does not mean you won't stubbornly test this, of course. “Do I really need that much sleep?” “Do I really require exercise rdquo; “Do I actually have to have a conversation with my friend about hurting my feelings?' These minimums aren't flashy. It isn't about reaching for some fabulous dream or exploring a new passion. But, without these nurturing nuggets, nothing else can be sustained. Between survival and a fully humming creative life lies the middle ground of minimum requirements for centering self-care -- a fancy way of saying what you absolutely must have to stay in touch with your center best radio transmitter . Recently I asked my Self-Care e-newsletter readers to share what helps them 'turn toward their truth.' I've also called this 'minimum self-care requirements' in other issues. As a result, this is what I wrote today to be included in my upcoming book:

Miniature Stereo FM Transmitter

The incoming stereo audio signal is conditioned and capped by a handful of resistors and capacitors and then enter the integrated circuit. Other radio control helicopter components are responsible for generating a pilot signal combination to achieve the MPX signal and the output buffer to the antenna. The circuit operates with 3V. Be powered with any voltage higher than indicated will destroy the IC. The antenna can be a wire rod 60cm long or a telescopicfm broadcast antenna. Despite your radio control helicopter model, this circuit, whose only active ingredient is an integrated circuit, allows listening on the radio walkman headband or the signal from a computer, a stereo TV or hi-fi. It has excellent signal to noise ratio, very good separation between channels is easy to adjust and the range is more than adequate for home use. Another possible use is in the car to enter the vehicle's stereo signal from a MP3 player even when the team does not have line inputs, simply tune the fm broadcast transmitter on a free position and you will see the circuit IS done. Miniature Stereo FM Transmitter Transistors 2N3924, 2N4427 and BLY88 must be mounted with suitable heat sinks. In this type of components used circular shaped heat sinks star. In the case of transistors 2Nxxxx the ideal size is 20mm diameter by 10mm in height, while for the BLY88 must be 75mm diameter by 100mm high. It is mandatory to use silicone grease to optimize heat transfer transistors to their sinks. Remember that excessive heat (other than instability in the output) can damage components. With regard to food and 2.5A 14V circuit provides 15W, while with 18V and 3.5A provides 18W, in all cases the source must be stabilized. The radio control helicopter circuit must be built on an epoxy printed with the top (component) reserved for the courts and the lower side interconnect (solder) to the ground plane. We do not have the printed circuit design. If someone built this transmitter would appreciate email you send us the design of the board. You can get to know a general guideline about radio control helicopter radio broadcast transmitter. Some capacitors may serve as a fine tuning. Once the output frequency is balanced, we must set the following variable capacitors to calibrate the remaining stages of the transmitter. Remember that these settings are made from the capacitor on the left to the one on the right. Remember that the initial setting is convenient to do with ghosts and burdens not the final antenna to avoid interference to other stations. Before proceeding to an advance radio control helicopter level, it is important to know that its transmitter (with or without additional power amplifiers) requires state approval to operate legally.

2012年8月29日星期三

AM AM radio broadcast stations in 2006 AM stations were the earliestradio broadcasting stations to be developed. AM refers to amplitude modulation, a mode of broadcasting radio waves by varying the amplitude of the carrier signal in response to the amplitude of the signal to be transmitted. The medium-wave band is used worldwide for AM broadcasting. Europe also uses the long wave band. In response to the growing popularity of FM radio stereo radio stations in the late 1980s and early 1990s, some North American stations began broadcasting in AM stereo, though this never gained popularity, and very few receivers were ever sold. One of the advantages of AM is that its signal can be detected (turned into sound) with simple equipment. If a signal is strong enough, not even a power source is needed; building an unpowered crystal radio receiver was a common childhood project in the early decades of AM broadcasting. AM broadcasts occur on North American airwaves in the medium wave frequency range of 530 to 1700 kHz (known as the "standard broadcast band"). The band was expanded in the 1990s by adding nine channels from 1620 to 1700 kHz. Channels are spaced every 10 kHz in the Americas, and generally every 9 kHz everywhere else. The signal is subject to interference from electrical storms (lightning) and other electromagnetic interference (EMI). AM transmissions cannot be ionospherically propagated during the day due to strong absorption in the D-layer of the ionosphere. In a crowded channel environment this means that the power of regional channels which share a frequency must be reduced at night or directionally beamed in order to avoid interference, which reduces the potential nighttime audience. Some stations have frequencies unshared with other stations in North America; these are called clear-channel stations. Many of them can be heard across much of the country at night. This is not to be confused with Clear Channel Communications, merely a brand name, which currently owns many U.S. radio stations on both the AM and fm broadcast bands. During the night, this absorption largely disappears and permits signals to travel to much more distant locations via ionospheric reflections. However, fading of the signal can be severe at night. AM radio transmitters can transmit audio frequencies up to 15 kHz (now limited to 10 kHz in the US due to FCC rules designed to reduce interference), but most receivers are only capable of reproducing frequencies up to 5 kHz or less. At the time that AM broadcasting began in the 1920s, this provided adequate fidelity for existing microphones, 78 rpm recordings, and loudspeakers. The fidelity of sound equipment subsequently improved considerably, but the receivers did not. Reducing the bandwidth of the receivers reduces the cost of manufacturing and makes them less prone to interference. fm broadcast transmitter are never assigned adjacent channels in the same service area. This prevents the sideband power generated by two stations from interfering with each other.[7] Bob Carver created an AM stereo tuner employing notch filtering that demonstrated that an AM broadcast can meet or exceed the 15 kHz baseband bandwidth alloted tobest radio transmitter stations without objectionable interference. After several years, the tuner was discontinued. Bob Carver had left the company and the Carver Corporation later cut the number of models produced before discontinuing production completely.

Radio broadcasting Types

radio broadcasting by radio takes several forms. These include AM and FM stations. There are several subtypes, namely commercial fm broadcast , non-commercial educational (NCE) public broadcasting and non-profit varieties as well as community radio, student-run campus radio stations and hospital radio stations can be found throughout the world. Many stations broadcast on shortwave bands using AM technology that can be received over thousands of miles (especially at night). For example, the BBC, VOA, VOR, and Deutsche Welle have transmitted via shortwave to Africa and Asia. These broadcasts are very sensitive to atmospheric conditions and solar activity. Arbitron, the United States-based company that reports on radio audiences, defines a "radio station" as a government-licensed fm transmission or FM station; an HD Radio (primary or multicast) station; an internet stream of an existing government-licensed station; one of the satellite radio channels from XM Satellite Radio or Sirius Satellite Radio; or, potentially, a station that is not government licensed. Shortwave See Shortwave for the differences between shortwave, medium wave and long wave spectra. Used largely for nationalwhat is radio transmitter , international propaganda, or religious broadcasting organizations.

Radio broadcasting

Main article: radio broadcasting The earliest radio stations were simply radiotelegraphy systems and did not carry audio. The first claimed audio transmission that could be termed a broadcast occurred on Christmas Eve in 1906, and was made by Reginald Fessenden. Whether this broadcast actually took place is disputed.[2] While many early experimenters attempted to create systems similar to radiotelephone devices by which only two parties were meant to communicate, there were others who intended to transmit to larger audiences. Charles Herrold started broadcasting in California in 1909 and was carrying audio by the next year. (Herrold's station eventually became KCBS). For the next decade, radio tinkerers had to build their own fm broadcast receivers. In The Hague, the Netherlands, PCGG started broadcasting on November 6, 1919. In 1916, Frank Conrad, an employee for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, began broadcasting from his Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania garage with the call letters 8XK. Later, the station was moved to the top of the Westinghouse factory building in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Westinghouse relaunched the station as KDKA on November 2, 1920, claiming to be "the world's first commercially licensed radio station".[3] The commercial broadcasting designation came from the type ofwhat is radio transmitterlicense; advertisements did not air until years later. The first licensed broadcast in the United States came from KDKA itself: the results of the Harding/Cox Presidential Election. The Montreal station that became CFCF began broadcast programming on May 20, 1920, and the Detroit station that became WWJ began program broadcasts beginning on August 20, 1920, although neither held a license at the time. Radio Argentina began regularly scheduled transmissions from the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires on August 27, 1920, making its own priority claim. The station got its license on November 19, 1923. The delay was due to the lack of official Argentine licensing procedures before that date. This station continued regular broadcasting of entertainment and cultural fare for several decades.[4] Radio in education soon followed and colleges across the U.S. began adding radio broadcasting courses to their curricula. Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts introduced one of the first radio broadcast transmitter majors in 1932 when the college teamed up with WLOE in Boston to have students broadcast programs.