Comments on: Build an analog TV station

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:12:11 +0000

Since 1994 the FCC has been auctioning licenses for the electromagnetic spectrum (airwaves). This could and does includes parts of the spectrum allocated for Amateur Radio (ham).

Frequencies previously used by amateur radio have been sold for commercial purposes. TeleCos (cellular phones) are big users of the radio spectrum formerly designated for amateur radio.

Sadly, unlicensed use of airwaves won’t send a message to the feds that citizens believe that preserving sections of the airways “free from commercial use” is important for THE PEOPLE.

However, licensed users have a voice – the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL).
http://www.arrl.org/regulatory-advocacy

Small potato pirates – not so much.

By: POed

POed — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:34:26 +0000

If the government assholes have anything to do with it, they will find a way to screw you. Copyright, FCC license my ass.

By: DJmatt

DJmatt — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:45:31 +0000

its illeal weather you like it or not when analogue TV if its not already shut down in your area runs on the same frequency bands as the digital stations the only difference is for each frequency multiple channels can be broadcast on each channel frequency thus alowing a lot more channels to be broadcast on the same frequency allocations say here in southern tasmania/australia analoge channel 6 is trasmitted with 3 other channels in digital on the same frequency band as analoge channel 8 if you use a scanner on this frequeny you dont hear anything but a digital tuner will. so if you transmit on these frequencies it can interfere with the digital TV service. anyway even if that wasn’t the case over a certain wattage you require a licence on non public frequencies. say if you wanted to transmit on 1148.3375Mhz at say 10W you require a permit for that frequeny and have to pay and re-submit the application every so many years like australia its usually 2 years a a time. but personally I dont care if I could find a decent transmitter I would run my own TV station and play all the latest movies and even Porn at night I have no respect for the law when it comes to this sort of thing :-) would love a 5W+ Transmitter schematic to build and have a community TV station and once analoge is turned uff here no one would know other than someone with a spectrom analizer unless you told them to scan there TV on Analoge chances of them finding it is slim. if you keep it to a small subburb and dont transmit into the main sity area you could get away with it for a long time.

By: Farhan Gondal

Farhan Gondal — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:40:44 +0000

“Wonder how much is it gonna cost to get an entire area covered. i work at a church and is looking into covering a very large area, would be cheaper then to rent a channel than building you own one. Am aware that if i were to cover a large area you will have to pay a licence for the frequincy”

Well I need The Design No Matter Itx Legal Or Illegal

By: Maximus

Maximus — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:59:20 +0000

Wonder how much is it gonna cost to get an entire area covered. i work at a church and is looking into covering a very large area, would be cheaper then to rent a channel than building you own one. Am aware that if i were to cover a large area you will have to pay a licence for the frequincy

By: Acikogretimci

Acikogretimci — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:42:37 +0000

its very enteresting

By: Farhan Gondal

Farhan Gondal — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:24:38 +0000

I Want to know how to build a tv/fm transmiter at home and what are the expences on it.

By: MikeDice

MikeDice — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:30:08 +0000

actually your blog is one of those i will bother to revisit. most i saw today are full of useless informations and advertising. thank you for providing some real content to the world :)

By: hank

hank — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:21:14 +0000

hello also has any one looked in to using the cable system fore low power broadcasting? not sure how this could be done but am curious if any one has considdered this metnod as well?

By: hank

hank — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:20:24 +0000

hello what is the fcc site to check on free open analog channels? the link was not mentioned in article

By: WhoEver

WhoEver — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:28:22 +0000

I will like to make a test one to learn how broadcasting works. I was looking for a instruction on how to do and and this one helped me. I will get a $25 UHF sender and a TV attena to do it. I use cable TV in my home and will not discard it because there is hardly any TV channels in air in my area. I will just unplug the Cable from the TV for Cable TV in the basement, try the station, and then turn it off and put back the Cable TV cable.

By: conundrum

conundrum — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:10:03 +0000

Now here would be an application for a wifi to uhf converter, to save all those otherwise useless TVs from the landfill.

Shouldn’t be too hard, you can get wifi usb dongles and USB PICs aren’t expensive, just fake the appropriate responses to get the dongle to initialise and fit it inside the existing TV’s casing. :)

last time i checked, wifi is more than capable of handling a single analogue channel’s worth of data, and causes far less interference than those 2.4G “senders”.

By: kurye

kurye — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:22:56 +0000

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By: Electrician

Electrician — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:10:27 +0000

Pirate TV is easy, you don’t have to build a TV-transmitter. Just use your VCR. Hook an antenna to the RF-out and voilà, your very own Pirate TV-station. We did this n school, works great. The broadcast range is of course not great, but you could always hook up an signal amplifier to reach more people.

By: Hirudinea

Hirudinea — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:57:33 +0000

Yea Hauku I use video senders to watch TV when I have to take a dump, video spliter from the box and to the sender, hook up an ATSC converter and you’ve got HDTV, sort of, on your old analogue sets, so don’t toss out your old tubes yet.