After three years of 100% "up time" on air service, the time has come to expand.
As you might know, I'm in the teny tiny town of Bovey. this town is 4 blocks wide and 1/4 mile long. All along this stretch of highway heading up Minnesota's Iron Range there is another teeny tiny town every 3-5 miles.
My daughter has moved from the BWC (Big Wicked City) back to her northern roots in a town 5 miles down the highway.
This presents the opportunity to add a second transmitter, located at their house. they are right on the 2 lane highway, and across the highway from the rest of the town. I still need to investigate coverage from their house over town, but if it's anything like coverage here in Bovey it should be fine.
This is far enough away that you certainly can't hear my signal from Bovey over there, so I can put this station on 1620 as well with no interference issues. Her town is just as small and isolated from big city noise with a nearly non-existant AM noise floor that I think reception should be as good as it is here in Bovey. ALso, of course, they have their own cable TV system, and their own public access channel that shows community announcements and such ans I believe I'll be able to put my audio on there as well, like I do here in Bovey.
I have discovered the wonder and amazement of the Barix box. One box in my studio can feed audio over the internet to nearly as many receiving boxes as I care to implement. I can see this eventually leading to a transmitter in each town right on up the Range over time.
So my plan for now is for her house to house another Procaster, mounted on the peak of the house with no ground (same as my present setup here) with a Barix Extreamer picking up the audio and a backup power supply (UPS). Should take up virtually no room at her house, and should be relatively self supporting. And since I'm just using mono AM quality audio the internet stream will use virtually no bandwidth out of the 60mbps we have available.
If you had the cash you could eventually cover an entire state!
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