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- From: "Julian Lorkin" <9LORKIN@WINVMJ.VNET.IBM.COM>
- Subject: WQXR question, was it a ham station?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.135517.15914@gagme.chi.il.us>
- Originator: wdp@gagme
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- Sender: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
- Organization: _
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:55:17 GMT
- Approved: rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us
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- allegra!rfc@allegra.att.com (Robert F. Casey) doth duely wrote:
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- >went up to 1500KHz, and WQXR was at 1560. Also, my father says that WQXR
- >AM was allowed to transmit with +-10KHz bandwidth (normal AM station
- >bandwidth is +-5KHz) to yield 10KHz of received audio bandwidth. HiFi
- >AM reception. He thinks they *might* still have this authorization, but
- >I doubt that anyone has an AM radio that can make full use of this extra
- >bandwidth. Can anyone add or verify or modify the above?
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- I played around with AM bandwidth when I was building a transmitter for
- an AM Induction Loop system (What we in the UK call Induction loops,
- or leaky feeders, you in the US call carrier current - no difference).
- With most hi-fis you are correct, you would notice very little
- difference with an improved transmitter bandwidth, but with a happy-crapy
- tranie you do get a vast increase, however then you get the problem of
- a naff audio stage. The best AM receiver system I got was a really cheap
- clock radio, coupled to a very expensive amp and speakers. 10kHz, no
- problem.
- Incidentally the cheapest AM TX I built used a crystal, JK flipflop,
- and a power transistor to switch the signal _from_ a power amp on and off
- at 1Mhz. Sure, it was square wave, but what the heck, it saved all that
- RF amp stuff.
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- Julian Lorkin
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