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kiyla
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Project Question: make your own low power am radio transmitter
Project Due Date: 1/19/2012
Project Status: I am conducting my experiment

Radio

Post by kiyla »

Hello, so I built the make your own low power am radio transmitter but i dont have a radio that goes to 1 megahertz. Do you know where i can buy one or how to use a regular radio to catch the signals? (By regular i mean 88 megahertz.)
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rmarz
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Post by rmarz »

kiyla - Since you built a low power AM transmitter, they are suggesting you use a standard AM radio receiver that tunes 535 KHz to 1705 KHz (extended medium wave band in the USA). The transmitter sounds like it was designed to transmit near the 1 MHz frequency, or 1000 KHz, right in the middle of the standard AM broadcast band. I'm sure you can still find a radio around the house that also receives AM as well as FM (your reference to 88 MHz regular radio). Good luck.

Rick Marz
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