{"id":27477,"date":"2017-08-09T06:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T10:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27477"},"modified":"2017-08-09T06:42:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T10:42:45","slug":"a-tivdio-t6-a-six-watt-fm-transmitter-via-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-tivdio-t6-a-six-watt-fm-transmitter-via-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"A TIVDIO T6-A Six Watt FM Transmitter (via Walmart!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My, how times have changed!<\/p>\n

I remember when I was a kid, if you wanted an FM transmitter with more power than the allowed FCC\u00a0Part 15 regulations (250uV\/m or 48dBu at 3 meters), you had to build it or hack it yourself.<\/p>\n

Those days are long gone. SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Bill, shares a link to this six watt FM transmitter available via Walmart<\/a> of all places!<\/p>\n

Of course, Walmart isn’t exactly selling this transmitters in stores–they’re simply handing the inventory and shipping for a third party retailer (AMI Ventures Inc. in this case).<\/p>\n

And I’m picking on Walmart because the TIVDIO T6-A, along with other similar FM transmitters, have been available from retailers like Amazon<\/a> and eBay<\/a> for ages<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Still, I find it a little funny that you can essentially start your own community\/neighborhood FM station by making a purchase at Walmart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My, how times have changed! I remember when I was a kid, if you wanted an FM transmitter with more power than the allowed FCC\u00a0Part 15 regulations (250uV\/m or 48dBu at 3 meters), you had to build it or hack it yourself. Those days are long gone. SWLing Post contributor, Bill, shares a link to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,3,297],"tags":[2628,4092,6410],"class_list":["post-27477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-fm-transmitter","tag-pirate-radio","tag-tivdio-t6-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-79b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8912,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/make-a-raspberry-pirate-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":27477,"position":0},"title":"Make a Raspberry Pirate Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"March 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul, for this article on Make Magazine that teaches you how to turn your Raspberry Pi\u00a0into an FM transmitter. 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