I’m not talking about AM radio or FM radio signals, but the radio station booths.
My friend told me that AM station booths are shaped irregularly to stop sound waves from bouncing around the room and causing feedback. I forgot what he said about FM.
Is this true?
They don’t.
We want to start up an FM Radio Station and we wanted to know how much it would cost us at the beginning. Any help?
Figure several thousand dollars for the engineering fees, legal fees etc. Then, If you are in the US, you need to have your engineers find a frequency that may become available, go through several years of process to allocate that frequency, have to go in to competitive bidding to win the right for the construction permit, and then pay the FCC the auction amount, which could range from a few thousand to a few million depending on the type of station and the location. After that you have to build it. With transmitter antenna, processing studios and so on, a decent station could be assembled for under 100,000 dollars (US). You would still have rent for studios, transmitter building, tower space etc. Then you have to man the station. DJ’s are a small part of the expense. Add the cost of salaries for engineers, traffic people business and other administrative types, as well as a sales staff to earn the money to pay for all of this. Business licenses, federal licenses, ASCAP and BMI fees to get the right to play the music and a dozen other little things run the price up rapidly. Legal expenses add to the overall cost considerably That’s to do it legally. If you operate a Pirate station you’ll probably have lousy coverage, little listener ship and heavy fines as well as confiscation of equipment when the federal radio authorities shut you down.
I am about to go to China for job reason, I was wondering if the use of fm radio station transmitter legal or not in China? Anyone knows that? Thanks for help!
As I know, it’s illegal to use an Fm transmitter in China at present.In some other countries, it’s legal, but not China. And about this, you can search some relative information in China’s laws and regulations. By the way, you can check the http://www.fmheroes.com, which sell the fm station transmitters, maybe your answer lies there…
I am tryin to get my fm radio to work in my chevy impala. Is there a trouble shooting task that I could do or a reset button?
I’d double check the antenna connection to the stereo and also check it’s mount and ground.You could look at the fuse box cover and find the fuse that supplies the stereo the constant 12 volt feed and remove that fuse for awhile then pop it back in the stereo’s clock should of went back to 12 o’clock.Another way is to pop the stereo out and unplug it’s plug in connections and then check the antenna plug , and reconnect the stereo after a few mins then try the stereo , just be sure that the stereo is off when you remove fuses or pull it out or unplug or plug in it’s connectors.
Hope that helps and best of luck.By the way there should be two fuses that run the stereo one is the constant feed , one is the ignition switchable feed but many times the chart will only mention the stereo once and not list the other fuse.Also if it’s a aftermarket stereo there should be a fuse at the back of the stereo too.
It sounds a bit like either Smashmouth or sublime, but they sing about listening to the FM Radio in 1979 riding around in the car and getting high. I can’t remember who it is!
AM Radio by Everclear
I have Windows 7 on my laptop and it comes with Windows Media Center. In the Media center, there is a radio. When you click on the radio though, it says "To listen to FM Radio, you must first install a radio tuner". I have searched all over the internet and still cannot find one. Can someone please help me? Thanks in advance!
They mean a hardware radio tuner… not software. Some TV cards have an FM tuner built in.
There is a community radio station being built, based on a hill of about 60 feet tall. I want to know how close I have to be to recieve a low watt (250) liscensed FM signal.
fm signals of that frequency range will only propagate to just barely over the horizon so the higher the antenna the farther the horizon is. There is one condition called tropospheric ducting when i high pressure system is overhead and the signal can ride along the temperature inversion layer for distances around 1000 miles.
I have windows 7; and an HP all in one, the tv works fine, but when I go to ‘Radio" in the Media Center, it tells me I must first install an FM Radio tuner? I tried downloading one, but it did not do the trick. Any suggestions?
I found this on the web. I hop it helps.
08-08-2009
missletoe
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Re: FM Radio using Vista Home Premium on HP Pavilion 9250F
Dude’s! I was having the same trouble with my Pavilion Elite m9350f. I had a digital antenna and FM antenna hooked up but no FM in Media Center. I found this forum and read through the postings and out of the blue I decided to add an antenna to the remaining Analog antenna input (which was not previously hooked up) with the cheap wire one that came with the PC and ran through the TV set up again. There was no visible difference in the set up so I thought it wasn’t going to work, but when I pulled up the FM radio it had all the controls I was lacking before (PRESET/SEEK/TUNE) and now I’m listening to Edgar Winters " Frankenstien". So to sum up, hook up all antenna inputs (digital, analog, fm). Run the tv channel setup. Listen to FM!
I’m as happy as a clam, I hope this works for you as well
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08-01-2010
StayinClassyinSD
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Re: FM Radio using Vista Home Premium on HP Pavilion 9250F
I also had the same problem with my HP d5000z running WMC on Vista.
With the help of these posts, I was able to tinker and get it fixed. But, I did it a little differently.
I selected "manual configuration", "antenna", and "analog only". It went on to ask me if my digital antenna was [also] connected. I picked "yes" and that did it! HORRAY!!!
Now I get all the analog OTA channels (albeit with bad reception, but I don’t care about that) AND now I get the OTA HDTV channels TOO! So, the guide has a bunch of channels like 6, 12, 17, etc, and I had to scroll down to see my OTA HDTV channels, e.g. 1061, 1081, 1121, etc. And now the radio works! Listening to classical station in the background right now! WOOHOO!
My htc evo cellphone can send and receive phone calls, do gps, bluetooth, wifi, 3g, and wimax 4g, but says it needs headphones to act like an antenna to receive FM radio. Why can’t it work through the phone’s speakers?
Well, because the antenna for receiving FM broadcasts in located in the headset! Many phones have this feature. You should be able to hear the stations through the speakers as well, as long as the headset is connected to the phone.
I am looking for a new FM radio for use in the interior of a building. My current Sony radio used to get reception, but now everything is just static. The radio is around computers and other electronic equipment, and I wonder if anything will work. I cannot listen online.
I was looking at Sangean PR-D7, but I have never had Sangean products before and wonder if it would be worth the investment.
A GE Superradio. Discontinued by Ebay has lots of them.