DIY FM Radio Station

[The Advent of Anarchy]

I just found this on YouTube. This thing is a small low-powered FM Radio Station that can broadcast for 6 hours straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOili0iuMnk

[Sender]

Hehe, whould be sweet if Revleft's radio started broadcasting.....

[The Advent of Anarchy]

Yeah, and with a few tweaks you could probably widen the broadcast by several miles.

[lithium]

Depending on where you're operating, it may be more viable to use an AM-band transmitter. AM transmitters are cheaper to make/buy and have a much greater range (often hundreds of kilometers). If you want an FM transmitter that has a range of several kilometers you need to put an antenna up pretty high. This can attract attention and is also fairly expensive to build or buy.

[The Advent of Anarchy]

And how can I build/how can I obtain an AM-Band Transmitter as cheap as possible?

[rocker935]

haha, cool, nice find.

[CheGuevaraRage]

Im also building an low-cost FM Transmitter...
here is a link for a good-quality low-cost 1W and 5W versions of Veronica Transmitter (you might need help to build it)
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/3736/veronica.htm

And remember that is illegal...but who gives a fuck....it is a kind of your own Revolution

[lithium]

And how can I build/how can I obtain an AM-Band Transmitter as cheap as possible?

Just do a search on Google for "am transmitter". You will find lots of online shops selling transmitters.

You can make an extremely simple transmitter with a crystal, a battery and some wire. But the power output on this would be pretty weak and not very useful. If you want to make a transmitter do a search for "am transmitter schematics" or go to www.disovercircuits.com

[Connolly]

Glad to see some interest in this.

I have compiled lots of resources on the subject here in this thread which covers various categories:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/diy-radio-guide-t65742/index.html?t=65742&highlight=Pirate+radio


If anyone has more, ill add them in.

C

[freakazoid]

You can also broadcast your own over the air TV station. Doesn't take much, although it is very weak. All you need is an antenna, amplifier, and whatever you want to broadcast. Normally when attaching the amp to your TV you plug in the part that says to TV to the TV, and the part that says to the antenna you plug into the antenna. Although to broadcast you merely plug in the antenna to the part that says to TV and what you want to broadcast into the part that says to antenna. Although this won't broadcast very far at all, you need some way to boost the power way up, and I don't have the electronic know-how to do that.