{"id":53526,"date":"2022-07-24T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T11:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53526"},"modified":"2022-07-24T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T11:23:48","slug":"the-c-crane-digital-fm-transmitter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-c-crane-digital-fm-transmitter-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The C.Crane Digital FM Transmitter 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/C._Crane_FM3-web-main-image_Superside_V1__81241-e1658661595722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53527\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/C._Crane_FM3-web-main-image_Superside_V1__81241-e1658661595722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/C._Crane_FM3-web-main-image_Superside_V1__81241-e1658661595722.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/C._Crane_FM3-web-main-image_Superside_V1__81241-e1658661595722-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/C._Crane_FM3-web-main-image_Superside_V1__81241-e1658661595722-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/C._Crane_FM3-web-main-image_Superside_V1__81241-e1658661595722-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/C._Crane_FM3-web-main-image_Superside_V1__81241-e1658661595722-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ron, who shares information about the latest C.Crane FM transmitter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/ccrane.com\/digital-fm-transmitter-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the new C.Crane FM Transmitter 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Everything is the same as the previous model except it now covers 87.7 to 108 MHz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">People have been reported as being in big trouble for using 87.7 MHz, or is it because of their competitor, <a href=\"https:\/\/wholehousefmtransmitter.com\/product\/whole-house-fm-transmitter-3-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Whole House FM Transmitter<\/a>?\u00a0This also covers the entire band but has serious build quality defects according to the Amazon reviews and costs more than the C.Crane FM-3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ccrane.com\/digital-fm-transmitter-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to check out the C.Crane FM Transmitter 3.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for the tip, Ron! Like many, I use FM and <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/review-of-the-sstran-amt3000-am-transmitter-kit\/\">AM transmitters<\/a> to pipe Internet radio streams throughout my house: especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1940sukradio.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the UK 1940s Radio Station<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ron, who shares information about the latest C.Crane FM transmitter: Check out the new C.Crane FM Transmitter 3. Everything is the same as the previous model except it now covers 87.7 to 108 MHz. People have been reported as being in big trouble for using 87.7 MHz, or is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4199,3781,3],"tags":[318,9904,2628],"class_list":["post-53526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-fm","category-news","tag-c-crane","tag-c-crane-fm-transmitter-3","tag-fm-transmitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dVk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63237,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/wa2xmn-revives-armstrongs-legacy-with-90th-anniversary-broadcast-on-42-8-mhz\/","url_meta":{"origin":53526,"position":0},"title":"WA2XMN Revives Armstrong\u2019s Legacy with 90th Anniversary Broadcast on 42.8 MHz","author":"Thomas","date":"June 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Conrad Trautmann, who shares the following guest post: 42.8 MHz WA2XMN FM Goes On The Air! 6\/19\/2025 By Conrad Trautmann, N2YCH Stephen Hemphill, WA3ZAE, the owner of Solid Electronics Laboratories, fired up a vintage FM tube Phasitron transmitter on 42.8 MHz to put WA2XMN\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/fm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27477,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-tivdio-t6-a-six-watt-fm-transmitter-via-walmart\/","url_meta":{"origin":53526,"position":1},"title":"A TIVDIO T6-A Six Watt FM Transmitter (via Walmart!)","author":"Thomas","date":"August 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"My, how times have changed! 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