Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (cyberpunk.lol alt)<p>1985: me and my friend from highschool experimenting with 2 transistor home built FM <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/transmitters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transmitters</span></a>, later <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/Stentor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stentor</span></a> kit from the <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netherlands</span></a>, transmitting between 105,6/105,7/105,8 MHz (depending on how much TX had drifted) and putting 1km "not spot" into comms for British Rail and Reading Buses on their then new Stornophone <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/VHF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VHF</span></a> radio schemes (which bizarrely had mobile TX on 150+MHz and base on 105-106 MHz (this portion of the band wasn't officially allocated to broadcasting back then!)</p><p>2025: working with my friends at <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/IpswichCommunityRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IpswichCommunityRadio</span></a> doing it all legally on 105.7 - 50W TX power, stereo, digital soundprocessing, dynamic RDS, about 30-40km range, full telemetry on the transmitter and bandpass filter so we don't upset anyone else on the band.</p><p>Listening to Em's 80s Hour of Fun last night (she featured 1985 on the episode) reminded me of this (and that 40 years have passed since I started being involved with <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radio</span></a>!)</p><p>(en eindelijk na 40 jaar kan ik ook de andere kant van de bouwfolder (die was in het Nederlands geschreven) voor de Stentor lezen!)</p><p><a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/FM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FM</span></a> <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/BroadcastEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BroadcastEngineering</span></a></p>