I owe Keith Hamilton a Christmas card! Just did a five-hour gig at the local Chamber of Commerce car show. Set up the Rangemaster, the processing, and my laptop, and played 50's and 60's vintage music (to match the cars) along with recorded thanks to the event sponsors and coordinators.
It was held in our local Home Depot parking lot, so there was little chance of getting a decent ground for the xmtr. But even without grounding of any sort, the signal was to-the-wall over the whole parking lot, and clearly receivable 1/4 mile away on an "average" car radio. I was impressed! (Thanks, Keith!)
Oh, and for those who must know (radio geeks like me), the setup was a simple HP laptop with its internal equalizer rolling off the 32HZ and 16kHz bands, all others flat. Into an Aphex 320A as an AGC, then into a Texar (pre-NRSC) Eagle with fairly robust compression but moderate clipping and 125% positive peaks, then right into the Rangemaster, which was tuned to 100% output. I used ZaraRadio as programming software, which is an amazing program for the price (FREE!), but I think I'll look for something that may cost money but is more malleable. Any suggestions are most welcome.
It's pretty rewarding when others can see and hear what we do with this hobby of ours. And then have good things to say about it, too!
Mark