Remember making the gp from the chart on pcs website, put in the loft it worked, many seem to have good results with it and are suprized by it, fed from the bottom with 50ohm coax, the perfect match. Good for keeping the hills alive with the sound of music, good when you’ve got ground which is higher

Only PCS gear that I’ve experimented with is their DAB kit which is not very cheap. However, after testing it out it seems to work very well.

There’s a lot to learn with a DAB kit. Everything is run over TCP to communicate with the transmitter and a whole lot of software to familiarise yourself with and understand.

University Twente SDR in Netherlands...switch to AM and type in your frequency

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

You can often hear 3 or 4 of them at the weekends. Even if you cannot hear them in Uk/Europe, there must
be a few within earshot of this RX on the university roof.

I always thought the main veronica 1W board was a PLL, competing with the NRG.

So they made a free running VCO only one ? Interesting.

Their current PLL 1W is the tiny components one

https://www.aareff.com/en/1w-pll-fm-transmitter-kit/

Given the price I would definitely got for a PCS over that. 100pct, personally. Aaref is £261.00 inc vat + shipping for 1W stereo  pricey.

Albert does not seem to like Aareff for some reason, I don't know enough about PLL rigs to be able
to confirm or deny if they are any good. Albert seemed to know the man who made NRG and spoke highly of him.

I wish the PLL makers would very clearly state if these devices are stereo out of the box as the PCB stands before adding extras. It is always a bit encoded pardon the pun
with MPX and what not. But they do not say if they already have stereo TX capability. It should be clearer. That would help them compete
against the Chinese 0.5/1/5/15W chip sprog rigs.

Ok you need to buy an encoder for Aareff that explains it is mono out of the box. All too expensive and there will be import charges
and courier charges on top. It seems they are in Spain ? You would be looking at £300.00 + by the time it gets to you for 1w.

I think you are right there. If a station is not too greedy with their coverage and use good kit and maybe 5 - 20W or whatever it needs I think you make your
chances of staying on longer better. Sure you don't have the strong signal but you keep that signal out of areas where there might be less welcome listeners.

Always difficult to know but with more publicity of any kind there comes more unwelcome listeners as well. A double edged sword.