My name is Philip de Cadenet and I run an e-commerce company called Transmitters 'R' Us specialising in radio and TV broadcasting equipment. I am based opposite London's famous Harrods department store and back onto Hyde Park. Built my first crystal set age 9 in 1965, a few years ago! Radio's in my blood. Not much time for home brew electronics these days but am at present building a 350w class-E AM transmitter. Hope to make some friends here and will drop by from time to time.
Hi John,
Regarding s/n, I think you would be amazed at the complex arcitecture involved in the design of todays AM broadcast transmitters. I recently added this statrement to my AM transmitter products page and it stands true: "There is no limitation to the fidelity of AM radio. From a mathematical standpoint, AM does better in frequency response than FM."
- Leonard Kahn
Unfortunitely for AM, there are several factors for the decline in AM broadcasting, especially of music, not least of which is the poor quality receivers that are manufacturered today.
Phil
Regarding s/n, I think you would be amazed at the complex arcitecture involved in the design of todays AM broadcast transmitters. I recently added this statrement to my AM transmitter products page and it stands true: "There is no limitation to the fidelity of AM radio. From a mathematical standpoint, AM does better in frequency response than FM."
- Leonard Kahn
Unfortunitely for AM, there are several factors for the decline in AM broadcasting, especially of music, not least of which is the poor quality receivers that are manufacturered today.
Phil
Hi SY,
Bandwidth hog, surely not
On the amateur (ham) bands it's one of the few places there are no bandwidth restrictions. As you're in the US you should be able to easily hear the 80m AM home brew brigade, especially those with the cuirrent crop of class-E AM transmitters (no modulation transformers to saturate and only a handful of IRF's in the modulator modulating many hundreds of watts of RF.
Phil
Bandwidth hog, surely not
On the amateur (ham) bands it's one of the few places there are no bandwidth restrictions. As you're in the US you should be able to easily hear the 80m AM home brew brigade, especially those with the cuirrent crop of class-E AM transmitters (no modulation transformers to saturate and only a handful of IRF's in the modulator modulating many hundreds of watts of RF.
Phil
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