{"id":809,"date":"2004-11-15T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/15\/c-crane-fmt-digital-fm-transmitter-with-ac-adapter-2\/"},"modified":"2004-11-15T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T20:00:46","slug":"c-crane-fmt-digital-fm-transmitter-with-ac-adapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/c-crane-fmt-digital-fm-transmitter-with-ac-adapter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"C. Crane FMT Digital FM Transmitter with AC Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My FM transmitter just arrived. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0000E6I1N\/104-1726081-9903953?_encoding=UTF8&#038;v=glance\">This<\/a> is a fine unit. And, if you don&#8217;t have to worry about FCC&#8217;s rules, you can (from &#8220;NC&#8221; on Amazon.com):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>Open up the box, by removing 3 screws (one screw is in battery compartment and the other 2 are under those circular rubber feet which are adhesive and once removed can be refitted afterwards)\n<\/li>\n<li>Locate the variable resistor marked VR2 on the circuit board. (For those non-technical this is like a volume control that is operated by inserting a tiny screwdriver and turning fully clockwise). Turn VR2 to the fully clockwise position.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Viola! The power output will increase by about five fold.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to go even further, then<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sit it on a grounded metallic surface, such as a metal tray to form a ground plane.\n<\/li>\n<li>increase the length of the antennae to about 75 cm (29 inches) which is the correct quarter wavelength at these frequencies.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But frankly, you are unlikely to need this once you turn up the boost.<br \/>\nEnjoy <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My FM transmitter just arrived. This is a fine unit. And, if you don&#8217;t have to worry about FCC&#8217;s rules, you can (from &#8220;NC&#8221; on Amazon.com): Open up the box, by removing 3 screws (one screw is in battery compartment and the other 2 are under those circular rubber feet which are adhesive and once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}