Posted on 10/23/2005 3:27:12 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Game 2 Live Thread! Chicago leads series 1-0
Pettite vs. Buehrle
Leni
Great pic...that should be on every front page of the Chgo papers..lol
My mom lives in an assisted living facility. It's a nice place, but she can't get any of her favorite AM stations (local stations out of Hartford, CT) in the building without a lot of static. When we put the radio near the window, it comes in best, but with still too much static. Would a transmitter like this help? I'm a little confused how an FM transmitter helps with transmission of AM stations...
Oh how sad... look at that pic of Lidge in #359.
pic is also in #365
That is definitely the one I'll be about posting. Great Shot.
Thanks for finding it.
Regards,
Joe
Since it's an FM signal, there may be limitations--walls, objects--it's "line of sight".
Belkin makes one model for $20 that can broadcast on 88.1, 88.3, 88.5, and 88.7 FM, and another, for about $33, that can do ANY FM frequency (and also has an auto-shut off). Both take a couple AAA batteries to run.
C.Crane catalog has something similar but it's $69 or so! Here's what theirs looks like:
I bought both the Belkin $20 model and $33 model (both at WalMart) and found the cheaper one worked better, or it seemed to!
The C. Crane catalog description (also kinds of applies to the cheaper ones):
"The FM Transmitter uses FM radio waves to send sound from any device you choose (as long as it has a headphone jack) to any nearby radio or stereo system. The only wire you have to connect is from the FM Transmitter to your gear. Simple as that. And since the Transmitter works with any device that has a headphone jack, you can use it with CD players, satellite radios, and any other audio device with a headphone jack. One of the unsung qualities of C. Crane’s Digital FM Transmitter is its extreme versatility. While most people use it to send music from their computers or MP3 players to a nearby radio, some customers have told us how they use it with their guitars, portable DVD players (a lot of fun in cars), and even other radios. One customer uses the FM Transmitter as a brilliant solution to the problem of turning the TV’s volume up too high. She simply plugs the FM Transmitter into her TV, and sends the audio to a small radio she keeps by her ear."
I should add that if the device you want to re-broadcast has the slightly BIGGER jack (1/4") you can just get an adapter at a place like Radio Shack.
>>>I'm a little confused how an FM transmitter helps with transmission of AM stations...
You plug the TRX into a radio receiver in a location that receives the desired station well - then, tune another radio to the freqency of the TRX - and listen to whatever it is plugged into via the relay TRX.
>> I'm a little confused how an FM transmitter helps with transmission of AM stations...
You're simply taking the output sound from a radio, or
CD player, or whatever, and broadcasting it over an
FM frequency. I could take a portable CD player and put it in one room, and attach the device, then go into another room and tune a radio to the device, and it will pick up the CD
that I'm playing.
>> My mom lives in an assisted living facility.
Interestingly enough there are some places like that which
broadcast a satellite service on a vacant FM frequency.
Here in Beverly, MA, I was noticing a signal on 98.9 FM
that was called "Companion Radio". It seemed geared
toward senior citizens. Come to find out it was broadcasting a micro-signal (for a few blocks) from a nursing home.
They found an open frequency and now the patients there
can simply tune to 98.9 and hear it...and it also can be picked up for a few blocks outside of the facility!
http://companionradio.com/
"Companion Radio is a dependable, versatile friend. Residents find entertainment and diversion - regardless of their functional level - 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. They feel better about themselves and their surroundings. It relieves their boredom and offers residents diversion from the increasing challenges of aging...The four stations are broadcast throughout your facility on the standard FM radio band and can be received by any FM radio."
It might almost be similar to a baby monitor. But instead of a microphone of sorts broadcasting from the baby's room to another room in the house, you're broadcasting a signal
(directly broadcasting, no microphone involved) to another room..or to your car, etc.
My car has a CD player but no cassette. I used the FM transmitter to broadcast a cassette I had--I set it to
88.3, hit the play button, then tuned to 88.3 on my
car stereo. Presto. (People are doing this with Ipods.)
>>broadcast a cassette I had
er, from a cass. walkman of course!
Yours is a less technical way of saying more or less the same thing I said... :)
"Nice, Lidge just chokes again. Series over."
"Its over. Lidge's head will be screwed up for a while now. Qualls showed that he has nothing between his ears. Too big a hole in the bullpen now."
Huh, didn`t you say all this in the last series? The Astros are not out of this just yet. Three games on their home turf and that soft porch they like so much, I would say if they drop one more game then yes they are done. But, if they win game 3 they are right back in this thing.
By the way, I am rooting for the Sox, but I want to see a series, not a sweep. So lets go Astros......for a few games at least.
You would have thought that the umpire could HEAR it hit the bat.
Hmmm.
Time for aluminum bats ............. or wooden arms.
;-)
I always say the NL is inferior, but end up convincing myself that they aren't and can hang with us once the WS comes. There is a WORLD of difference between the AL and NL. Lidge is an excellent closer in the NL, but he's not one of the Top 3 in baseball as has been alleged. I'd take Báez, K-Rod, Joe Nathan, or Wickman over him (and Mo, of course) easily. The ChiSox will sweep the Stros like we did the Cards. The NL sucks.
What a great series this has turned out to be! I am surprised to say the least. Let us hope Lidge does not do a Donnie Moore on us. If anyone remembers what happened to him.
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