In the UK 'transmitter' is the normal shorthand for everything at a broadcast transmitter site. If someone wants to know where my national FM signals come from they don't ask "Where is your FM antenna system?" but "Where is your FM transmitter?". They are not asking me where the exciter and power amps are situated, but where the whole site is. My reply might be something like "National FM comes from Peterborough, I think it uses circular polarisation." Strictly speaking, my reply says that the city of Peterborough uses circular polarisation, as 'it' refers to the previous noun; clearly I don't mean this. Pedants may wish to differ. Everyone else knows that my reply is about the whole installation at the transmitter site; they are not interested in which part of the apparatus is responsible for circular polarisation.rdf said:
Sorry, I was merely answering silly pedantry with more silly pedantry. For a physicist the antenna is the bit which radiates, not the bits which feed it.
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It's been a very long time since I've worked on an FM broadcast transmitter, but I did understand what DF96 meant.
An interesting page on FM antennas.
88–108 MHz
An interesting page on FM antennas.
88–108 MHz
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