{"id":5468,"date":"2013-01-27T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T13:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2013-01-27T09:09:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T13:09:26","slug":"daves-fm-station-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/daves-fm-station-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave’s FM station empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FMMegaplex\"Dave Schmarder (N2DS) enjoys making radios and featuring them on his website,\u00a0http:\/\/makearadio.com<\/a>. What you may not know is that he also runs his own FM stations empire…and you can too:<\/p>\n

I thought your visitors might be interested in my FM stations empire.\u00a0I bought a bunch of mp3 players with built in fm transmitters that are usually used in\u00a0a car and adapted them for home use. They all cost me under $4 each, plus a TF\u00a0card for a couple bucks for each music transmitter.<\/p>\n

At the moment I have 8 transmitters running, mostly with usb sticks looping music,\u00a0but also a transmitter hooked to my tv cable box and another one to my internet radio.<\/p>\n

This allows me to be anywhere in my little house and listen to these audio sources\u00a0using a small Tecsun FM radio. During the summer I could sit on my porch and listen without\u00a0dragging my radios or iPad outside.<\/p>\n

Perhaps some of your visitors might be interested in having their own fm radio megaplex.\u00a0Here is the link: http:\/\/www.n2ds.com\/musiccenter\/musiccenter.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

73, Dave
\nN2DS<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks, Dave!<\/p>\n

I’ve often thought of broadcasting 1930’s and 40’s music over a micro shortwave transmitter in my house. I would love to know if any readers have done this. Admittedly, it would take a pretty committed shortwave radio geek. Anyone? Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Schmarder (N2DS) enjoys making radios and featuring them on his website,\u00a0http:\/\/makearadio.com. What you may not know is that he also runs his own FM stations empire…and you can too: I thought your visitors might be interested in my FM stations empire.\u00a0I bought a bunch of mp3 players with built in fm transmitters that are […]<\/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":[8,554,998],"tags":[1631,1632,1633],"class_list":["post-5468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-slightly-off-topic","category-web-radio","tag-dave-schmarder","tag-n2ds","tag-personal-fm-stations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1qc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16390,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/berlin-group-distributes-tiny-radio-transmitters-for-syria\/","url_meta":{"origin":5468,"position":0},"title":"Berlin group distributes tiny radio transmitters for Syria","author":"Thomas","date":"December 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Yahoo News via Dan Robinson) BERLIN (AP) \u2014 On the top floor of an old brick building in the heart of Berlin, a group of journalists and tech enthusiasts are working to spur the Syrian media revolution. 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