Whole House 2.0 FM Transmitter Trouble

A while back during a meeting of the ALPB i mentioned the Whole House 2.0 Fm transmitter has a few flaws, that is besides being over powered while it's supposed to be certified.

Tim in Bovey tested the Whole House 3.0 in an open field with a Potomac and another Fim showing the 3.0 was over powered by as much as 382 uV/m to 17775 uV/m, the video I shot this afternoon confirms this transmitter could get an average user into some trouble.

The day i discovered that the transmitter displayed 136.500 mhz i had enough sense to save that channel in one of the presets, the scanner i used to show the WH was transmitting out of band was set to what is called Close Call mode.


Close Call mode receives only signals that are in your neighborhood or are strong enough to break the squelch and offers the user the option to add a new frequency to their memory bank. The WH was all over the UHF band with spurious signals, starting at 462.662 mhz and ending at 462.687 mhz.

After the video was shot, i punched in 136.500 Mhz and the signal was not present there, that frequency would be in the aircraft band if i am not mistaken. Why the heck does this chip even allow access to those frequencies in the first place?

I attempted to tune above and below the displayed channel 136.5 mhz and was able to go lower into the aircraft band but the transmitter was still locking into the UHF band, nothing was heard on the Bearcat scanner and to be absolutely sure i scanned the aircraft band on a Grundig G3, still nothing there.

So it seems the transmitter displays aircraft band frequencies but transmits in the UHF GMRS and Business bands, what about Police and Fire bands?

I see this little transmitter causing users some problems with the FCC.
Also it is important to note that the WH 2.0 was not on the higher power setting even though I have located the power switch in the battery compartment, it was not turned up.

Needless to say, i no longer use this transmitter, view the video below on YouTube.

Whole House 2.0 Fm Transmitter trouble

Thanks
P.S. yes my work bench is a mess, sure, i might clean it up later. Might.

Barry of BBR Yardwide