• Twig
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    1 year ago

    What hardware would you need to increase its range? Just a bigger cable?

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      1 year ago

      Rigging up a transmission cable (coax) to an outdoor antenna would make a difference but at the RF output power levels that the pi could produce (milliwatts), it would likely be unable to broadcast further than your immediate neighborhood without some kind of RF amplification.

      To make something to rival Kurupt fm you’d be better starting with something more substantive - this site has some interesting stuff.

      editing to add comment from the wiki that is referenced in the article: “When testing, the signal only started to break up after we went through several conference rooms with heavy walls, at least 50m away, and crouched behind a heavy metal cabinet.”

      That’s better than I would have expected with an indoor piece of wire. With a very short transmission line to a correctly designed outdoor antenna, it could probably be heard a mile or so away.