Someone was asking if there was a diffirence in mod between radio 2 and radio 4, I think it would be better to be on a radio 3 frequency it seems quieter, i’m guessing there can’t be many frequencies there that could be used, it seems more stations are on radio 2 and radio 4 frequencies, I could only hear lightning, on one of the receivers radio 3 was blasting over the frequency.

Ive been working on an smd version of the zozo board/smiley nrg/ H board. whoever invented it first :lol:

But iv hit a bump in the road. Ive used all 0603 caps and resistors, everything else is regular through hole parts. On the rf strip they do get abit warm to hot and the board only does about 100mw out. im baffled as to why, iv checked the pcb over and over and found nothing wrong. Ive swapped out loads of parts and found nothing. The last thing i can think of is the 0603 parts are just not providing the power the rf stages need to drive the final. But it was my understanding that they would just burn up if too much current was drawn.

im also controlling the saa1057 with an Arduino. Is the original pic16f84 doing more than just controlling the saa1057 ? Does it have a muted stage that opens up when locked ?

Take care too, I didn’t mean to put you off posting sorry if i’ve done that, the dutch pirates are there on mw every night, they are unlikely to go away, they’d never posted on rn its been around 10 years.
Theres still people over there too who have an interest in radio, most of them are alright, its shame you don’t hear anyones transmissions.
I do agree with you on alot things, I suppose alot of txers get built for a challenge or for export, there might be some people who live in other countries, your not going to hear them, perhaps their been used on london pirates you might be hearing them through online recievers who knows. 
Loads of things reach monitoring stations weak or strong, If there had been something scanning up and down it would of likely found all those random links that were playing music, would of flagged up instantly, no transmissions would of taken place anywhere they would of all got closed down the next day.

Switching on and off, changing frequencies, playing low quailty recordings might sound obvious.

Anoraks can tell, you tell something is an in car tx from the fluttering signal dissmiss it. If you had a stationary transmitter, playing old pirate recordings it would sound more pirate like it was something, if it was playing back to back music it would sound like an in car tx that was stopped.
They could just get in a car and see, that it had greater range, if they also had another reciever else were they could tune some distance away and hear it, making it an unsafe thing. Anoraks are more of a danger they are constantly tuning about, you could get one who is like an official radio inspector, its better noone knows.

Stations that sound legitimate seem to stay the longiest
people don’t care about weather something is licenced or unlicenced they like it.
I remember years ago when i started to hear energy, usually pirates had biscuit tin transmitters not something you could hear as far away, with it having such a big tx and been heard so far away, with it sounding so professional, with there been no internet then, i though it was licenced, meant to be there, it broadcast pretty much continuously for 7 years, they were more relaxed there it was still something.
fip in brighton transmitted 10 years, used frequencies used by french station with the same rds, i don’t think anyone though it shouldn’t be there, people just liked it. I think it was more someone who paid to use the spectrum, more likely found it shouldn’t be there and that was it.

I suppose it would I think be difficult to find a station that you liked in the uk that was out there, put on air on the same frequency else were.
I suppose you could test with a blank carrier on the annoraks radio they won’t notice as carriers are quite common, it maybe takes the fun out of it. Maybe radio 2 transmitted on a different frequency, the anorak would be fooled, noone expects anything but radio 2 on those frequencies between 88-91, but safer to not transmit at all.

tef radios tune up in 100khz steps, thats were stations are usually centered if something on a half step would be invisible to the anorak, near enough to the tx, most peoples radios it would still be recieved even with their radio tuned off 50khz, invisible to the rak. If you could center it abit off frequency, the autoseek function would not work if someone was scanning up the band. I can’t think of anything else right now, interesting this dosen’t go anywhere, I think making something as legitimate as possible is good advice.   

Someone over there said my posts were pointless, its got harder to post admin deleted it, they are regular poster on there, i had been taking an interest in london stations. I’ve had to stop using my 1w for now, i’ve been using an mp3 player instead, sometimes I often do think i’m still listening to it.

yeah i’ve been enjoying hearing what they’ve got to say, didn’t want to interupt anything, often think of stations I used to hear. its strange I only looked up about radio britannia afew weeks ago. The music wasn’t my cup of tea but I did love his character, I wish there would of been something about squeeky and the chip shop lassy. https://radiofax.org/RadioBritannia.html
I don’t think I read it the first, I was amazed by the detail of it, he looked like what I though he would do, the place it came from, the end terrace with all the aerials in the back garden, just how I imagined it to look. I loved that the tx was kept in the front room, with a banner round it, 200w, into a colineer that gave 500w, it was held by guyed wires in the air.
He wrote up shortwave magazine under a different name, about how he could pick up stereo signals from far and wide and about not been able to get his commuications reciever repaired. I couldn’t help and look afterwards to try and find the house on google, I didn’t know were to look. He came from rotherham, moved to barnsley, likely it would be on air from there on a different frequency, it was on mw and sw too.  You kind of wish it was someone who you’d known