{"id":56932,"date":"2023-05-25T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=56932"},"modified":"2023-05-25T06:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:44:39","slug":"frans-purchases-the-hurricane-am-modulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/frans-purchases-the-hurricane-am-modulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Frans purchases the Hurricane AM Modulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hurricane.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56933\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hurricane.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hurricane.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hurricane-300x132.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hurricane-1024x451.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hurricane-768x339.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hurricane-624x275.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Frans Goddijn, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I bought the Hurricane AM Modulator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here in my living room the hum was considerable even though I had an EARTH connection. So what I did was use a coax cable made of two different ends of coax cable, just the isolated kernel of both taped close together so the signal is transmitted on one, received on the other without the wires touching. One end in the antenna OUT of the transmitter, the other end in antenna IN of the receiver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Now I can wirelessly send music from my laptop or telephone to the Hurricane and \u2018receive\u2019 it on the radio of my preference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The HUM obviously does not originate from the Hurricane.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hftU-iNH3WE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hftU-iNH3WE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Best regards!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Frans<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ebay.us\/j2MNp9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to check out the Hurricane AM transmitter on eBay.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for sharing this, Frans. The Hurricane sounds amazing via that gorgeous Hammarlund SP-600!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Frans Goddijn, who writes: I bought the Hurricane AM Modulator. Here in my living room the hum was considerable even though I had an EARTH connection. So what I did was use a coax cable made of two different ends of coax cable, just the isolated kernel of both [&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":[373,3],"tags":[9762,10223,10224],"class_list":["post-56932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-news","tag-frans-goddijn","tag-hurricane-am-modulator","tag-hurricane-transmitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eOg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57493,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/frans-improves-connections-to-his-hurricane-transmitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":56932,"position":0},"title":"Frans improves connections to his Hurricane Transmitter","author":"Thomas","date":"August 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Frans Goddijn, who writes: Here\u2019s a little follow up on what I did earlier with the little Hurricane transmitter. https:\/\/youtu.be\/-MRY2ug13Oc Click here to view on YouTube. 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