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Pretend radio station Tavistock FM
« on: July 30, 2026, 06:34:09 pm »
Sometimes I imagine I run a little radio station in the Cotswolds or further afield. I imagine I have a fairly large living room with old age stone
built walls with some hangings over them for decor and a bit of sound treatment and a hydraulic 15M military mast with a colinear antenna VHF on the top.

Primrose Gardens Tavistock looks nice and tidy

I have a red button and the mast goes up and down when I am done for the evening.

Just running just 5 Watts of FM stereo to cover the village clearly in decent stereo from an old school NRG PLL rig with a nice quality stereo encoder.

Nice little mixer, with a laptop and a CD player and a nice microphone and a couple of compressors. A nice valve one for
the microphone to sound a bit like a USA presenter. A nice comfy chair and to be able to to it in all weathers, even in the snow
on chilly winters evenings.

I would have a nice 40inch Tv with a pretend open fire place playing on it so it felt cosy but most likely
have actual central heating.

Dimmed lights in the room, maybe start at 8pm every evening and finish at my leisure playing any music I fancied.

39:36 Bedford cottages look like a nice place to do it from as well.



Just a bit of fun really.
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Re: Pretend radio station Tavistock FM
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2026, 07:44:02 pm »
I often dream of having my own transmission cover an area afew 100 meters no more, would be difficult to do, to confine, line of sight go out 10/20miles. I suppose down in a valley by the coast, like on beyond paradise or something, it would easier to do
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Re: Pretend radio station Tavistock FM
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2026, 07:11:20 pm »
One of the Chinese 500mW with the antenna down would probably not get beyond the house, make that dream a reality ?

I doubt anyone gets raided from a TX covering their living room.

Wire a little 12v battery one of the in car ciggy lighter TX ?

A few meters seems like a very very small coverage area, I am curious to what is the specific attraction to that radionortheast ?
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« Reply #3 on: Today at 10:12:06 am »
I actually meant afew 100 meters,saxumundham would be a good place as you don’t hear anything on fm, there are so many clear spacers for something.  :o maybe you could have something playing continuous disco music

I have one of those 0.5w, I use with the aerial retracted, I imagine it wouldn’t get too far, I do get muilpath in the bathroom from it barely 7 meters away. I have an 8006 too, i’ve set it put out a minus db figure, it does samething with the aerial retracted, i’ve not checked in the garden they do get around the building the same.
 
I was thinking about on a clear freuqency if something was audioable afew 100 meters away down the road weakly, on 87.7 or something, it would still make it against the law, I don’t know if i’m been paranoid, I’ve put on a frequency were theres some out of area tx to prevent it from happening..I do hear lots of in car ones I don’t hear static ones.
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