{"id":57493,"date":"2023-08-14T05:50:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T09:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=57493"},"modified":"2023-08-14T05:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T09:50:49","slug":"frans-improves-connections-to-his-hurricane-transmitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/frans-improves-connections-to-his-hurricane-transmitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Frans improves connections to his Hurricane Transmitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many thanks to\u00a0<em>SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/Frans-Goddijn\/?swcfpc=1\">Frans Goddijn<\/a>, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Frans-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57495\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Frans-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Frans-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Frans-1-300x193.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Frans-1-1024x660.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Frans-1-768x495.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Frans-1-624x402.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here\u2019s a little follow up on <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/frans-purchases-the-hurricane-am-modulator\/\">what I did earlier with the little Hurricane transmitter<\/a>.<\/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\/-MRY2ug13Oc?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\/-MRY2ug13Oc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Before I had an \u2018indirect\u2019 connection between antenna-OUT of the transmitter and the radio as I had two insulated wires , one from the transmitter, one from the radio, taped close to one another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Now I first tried a direct coax cable from transmitter-OUT antenna to receiver-IN antenna. That worked well if I took care to not amplify the incoming signal too much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Next I made a one-off three-way antenna switch into an all-three-way connector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Then I sent sound\/music (by Joe Frank) from the iPhone to the transmitter, to all three radios.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I first listened to each radio and in the end had all three playing the sound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A pleasant way to listen to some of my favourites!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Best regards,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Frans<\/p>\n<p><strong>I love this, Frans! And what a great music selection to test the new setup! Thank you for sharing, OM.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Click here to view on YouTube. Before I had an \u2018indirect\u2019 connection between antenna-OUT of the transmitter and the radio as I had two insulated wires , one from the transmitter, one [&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":[3,43,4796],"tags":[9762,10223,681],"class_list":["post-57493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-frans-goddijn","tag-hurricane-am-modulator","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eXj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56932,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/frans-purchases-the-hurricane-am-modulator\/","url_meta":{"origin":57493,"position":0},"title":"Frans purchases the Hurricane AM Modulator","author":"Thomas","date":"May 25, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Frans Goddijn, who writes: I bought the Hurricane AM Modulator. 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