Almost turned to PCS's offering, but thankfully FBR finally delivered their cheaper offering to me. (1/2 of the price of PCS's alternative).
30 watts - ~100 using a decent antenna. figure 2-3 miles (radius) for decent picture. assuming this thing works ;-/.
------------- I can do nothing for another 6 months - still need to buy antenna (thinking PCS - euro/dollar exchange is greatly in my favor currently) - assemble a "video serving" PC, and collect (and extract and merge VOB files into useable mp4/avi files for streaming, not to mention building a congent and usuable directory hierarchy with the files in the days for the particular directory - to create one giant playlist SMplayer can pull from - from sign on to sign off each day.
..............I've been investigationg scheduling software - so SMplayer will autolaunch with re-boot of PC (OS/2 offered this nice feature out of the box back in the stone age of the early 90's) - and I don't mean a simple "startup" - but a "startup, with the last loaded file loading and starting where it last lest off upon application's shutdown). no luck in figuring this out yet.
--------did buy an HDMI converter box (converts HDMI video (as from my PC) to Composite video - box also converts resolutions - so I can feed a PC out 1920 x 1080 HDMI to --- converter box ---- and out comes a 640 x 480 NTSC composite signal -- to old CRT TV.. damn thing only cost 35 bucks and is the size of a deck of cards,and WORKS!!
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hopefully by Sept I'll have a test signal to check with my portable tiny Black and White TV while driving around my neighborhood.
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BTW new TVs (some? most?) still offer NTSC tuners in them (I bought a cheap 37" LED-LCD HDTV (Samsung) for my mom for Christmas and its got both the ATSC and NTSC tuners in it).
a lot of channel 9 logos to choose from too. couple of months ago grabbed from many older late 60's early 70's ones of Perth-9, but looks like they might be removed from YT now.
ya - wish I could find the older B&W one with the 60's drums/trumpets and the naked plastic dolls underwater in an aquarium with the ausie channel 9 logo front and center.
I downloaded it few months ago cuase it was so querky, but cant find it on YT anymore. Ausie 9 station ID's lack "call letter" and even city of origin in their videos - so I can use them, being so generic. I've collected 30 or so intros - spanning from 1968 to the early 00's.
as to programing - all there is on Cable-mainstream TV is just that McDonaldsvile. so much great shows I've discovered this past year on youtube - most 80's, 70's and 60's stuff - stuff that has some notoriety back in the day - but are now utterly lost to history - just NEVER shown in cableTV - and most of the public today have either forgotten those old shows or are to young to have seen them when they were popular. a lot of these shows I've discovered are British and so never actually shown here in America - even back then - so alost non of us know about these shows (some were shown on a hanfull of PBS stations in the early 70's and 80's (like UFO/ Starcops /tomorrow People - but I never heard if them before finding them on YT.
as for picture quality - since the stuff I like is old as dirt and the originals were either filmed on 16 mm and not taken care of, or videotape - old analog NTSC will service my purposes just fine. I like near city center in a lower middleclass neighborhood - a good 1/4 of the houses here have antennas (I don't live in the newer residential developments that surround me 3-miles out - where everyone has a MINI and SUV with an Apple and a Roku living the cookie cutter 2.3 child programing. They are too originary to appreciate obscure programing from eccentric misanthrope anyway. but my local area of town is poplated by weirdos and weird-poor, so there may be 20 or so folks with old CRTs that may like what I hope to offer.
stuff like this (I copied them all - before copyright police ruin a good thing):
I stole 1/3 of these via netflicks - the more obscure shows - Colditz, Callan and Sandbaggers Netflicks does not have and I liked them so much after viewing then on YT I bought the DVD sets(all three series were posted in entirety a fw months ago - only one is still there now (Sandbaggers only lasted a couple of weeks! - I I caught it (viewer no 4 - literally 5 hrs after the uploads, so got see all of them.
Callan DVDs just came out,and Colditz only couple of years ago! - DVD's are what now 15 yrs out and old - and counting, and some shows are only now getting on them!
Interesting shows. I've been looking for some programming to fill the empty spots of my TV stations' weekend schedule. At the moment, the week is dominated by news in the morning, music mid-day (Kind of like Music Choice), and anime at night. Overnight hours are a random blend of dance music and podcasts.
I did transmit analog (NTSC) briefly, but now transmit digital television (ATSC) in full 1080i. (1080p can be done, but due to MPEG-2, it won't look good outside of low fps shows like anime and music).
Do you program any TV shows? Anything you'd recommend? I have public domain shows and cartoons, but most of them are in awful condition quality wise.
I discovered Space Engine about a 1 yr ago: its here - plus some great YT vids of that program by talented fan of the program (check those guy's channels for more SE vids):
sample vids - which I download at full HD for later viewing.
and my favorite:
.................... not a fan of Anime - but love Animation (international animation turnee stuff) - like Bill Plymton's stuff, Hubley, Fredric Back, and Don Hertsfeild(sp):
....................also many great Music Videos done by fans - like "nigani" (he/she has over 100 great music vids):
..........and finally some "lets play" Pc games are good (esp. with "epic" games with good back stories/music - like the 3 homeworld games:
full soundtrack BTW:
some good race sims too: "GPLaps" has a good Virtual Grand Prix series done with GPlegends here:
GTlegends online races are fun watching too - Joni Jurmu has some good race vids of them here:
and finally there some great Combat Sim shorts done mostly with Flaming Cliffs2, Il2-1946, and Rise of Flight - like these:
Hi Kage - I'd like to apologize for the "trollishness" of my post. I didn't know my link would literally crash anyone trying to read this thread. But my endless links did just that when I tried to view my own links ;-(.
I'd like to apologize to you for that. ;-(. I hope I did not violate forum rules and will in the future try to limit my links - know knowing the "overload results".
Great forum BTW - just wish there was more "popular support" (so few posts here ;-(......) for Pirate Radio today (there was more 10 yrs ago- due to no/little net-radio). I thank the Gods for the Net - but still hate Clear Channel (etc.......consolidation) with the full fiber of my being - 15 yrs ago and today - same level of hate.
I thank the gods for net though and Grace and their (Vitoria - wood retro "radio")radio - so still have good "radio" stations to listen to.
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I'm an ignoramous; EE speaking (my hate of CC was why I bought my NRG (may Steve Moss Rest in Peace - he seemed like a nice guy on the Usenet forums all those years ago) FM VFO 12 ys ago, and why I'm now trying to go (analog 19th century tech TV) with offering now forgotten TV programing (mostly the British stuff like above).
I'd appreciate any advice on the filter I'll need.
Again, I'm still collecting so will not "be on the air" until Sept (assuming I can get a pole up without electrocuting myself (a decent (rohn?) one - not the 20 ft one I have now)).
still waiting for the Haswell cheap Motherboad (since in my ignorance I bought a 30 buck Ivy Mobo (I'll use that for my NRG whenever I get organized enough.............lol).
Have FAB DVD (lifetime option - ok and happy to $$ great product BTW) - so the software angle is "covered".
I've bought several DVD TV series via Amazon UK - I steal stuff when I have no moral objection - but buy when the shows are now forgotten and the makers value my $$).
No problem and you didn't break any rule. I am actually surprised the forum software allows that many youtube links to be posted. I thought there was a 5 video post limit but maybe that was the old forum software. Either way it did not crash my browser, just took a while to load
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