What is the max power (dBm) a AM receiver can get in the real world?
What is the max power (dBm) a AM receiver can get in the real world?
Let us say the receiver is sitting very close to a station antenna, the station has the max power FCC permits. Thanks |
What is the max power (dBm) a AM receiver can get in the real world? Let us say the receiver is sitting very close to a station antenna, the station has the max power FCC permits. The "blackout" zone is 1 volt/meter. Any station, regardless of its power, has such a zone. Good city service is 25 mV/m. The area covered by the 25 mV/m signal is a function of frequency, power and ground conductivity. |
In article , Jianhong Wang wrote:
What is the max power (dBm) a AM receiver can get in the real world? I've stood about a fourth of a block away from the tower array of a 50,000 watt station (WQEW-AM 1560 New York). With a satisfactory quality pocket transistor radio. The signal was extremely distorted. Overload. Couldn't get any closer becasue of the damned fence around the property. -- Sven Weil New York City, U.S.A. |
That question is a non-starter. A poorly-designed reciever will probably freeze up
within a mile of a 50kW antenna, while a superb one could likely take several volts-per-Meter and not even squeal, even when within the tuning house or at the base of the tower.. -- For direct replies, take out the contents between the hyphens. -Really!- "Jianhong Wang" wrote in message ... What is the max power (dBm) a AM receiver can get in the real world? Let us say the receiver is sitting very close to a station antenna, the station has the max power FCC permits. Thanks |
"Jianhong Wang" wrote in message ... What is the max power (dBm) a AM receiver can get in the real world? Let us say the receiver is sitting very close to a station antenna, the station has the max power FCC permits. Thanks Don't know offhand, but you can have fluorescent bulbs light up near a transmitter, and you can have a crystal set drive a speaker. |
The Raytheon manual on things to do with your CK-722 has a receiver
that uses a crystal set to develop enough DC to run a CK-722 receiver tuned to the same station. The obvious improvement is use a crystal set to listen to another station entirely with the transistor radio. It sucks a little of the energy out of the local broadcaster, reducing his antenna pattern, so you can hear a more distant station. -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
Bob Haberkost wrote:
That question is a non-starter. A poorly-designed reciever will probably freeze up within a mile of a 50kW antenna, while a superb one could likely take several volts-per-Meter and not even squeal, even when within the tuning house or at the base of the tower.. I think his question is how many dBm would be received at the front end when sitting at the base of the tower. Not how many dBm can be received and still use the radio. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
You see, though, it's not dBm for AM radio....it's V/m, since there's no "typical"
impedance associated with the receiving antenna. And in the end it's still a question of receiver design, anyway. And, worth noting, is that different antenna designs will have different close-range propagation characteristics, so that it can't be specifically stated without knowing the antenna. This is, after all, why the FCC specifies inverse km measurements, and those measurements are done in far-field conditions. -- For direct replies, take out the contents between the hyphens. -Really!- "Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ... Bob Haberkost wrote: That question is a non-starter. A poorly-designed reciever will probably freeze up within a mile of a 50kW antenna, while a superb one could likely take several volts-per-Meter and not even squeal, even when within the tuning house or at the base of the tower.. I think his question is how many dBm would be received at the front end when sitting at the base of the tower. Not how many dBm can be received and still use the radio. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
Thank your guys for all your answers. As scott mentioned, I want to
the possible max power (dBm) a receiver can get no matter it works or not. I know it depends on a lot of things, like receiver antenna efficiency. But could you give me a empirical number assuming that reciever's antenna is most efficience in the thoery. Thanks (Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ... Bob Haberkost wrote: That question is a non-starter. A poorly-designed reciever will probably freeze up within a mile of a 50kW antenna, while a superb one could likely take several volts-per-Meter and not even squeal, even when within the tuning house or at the base of the tower.. I think his question is how many dBm would be received at the front end when sitting at the base of the tower. Not how many dBm can be received and still use the radio. --scott |
Why?
And then, as I said, each antenna system is different at close range. It could be only a volt or two per meter, it could be several tens of volts...close enough, you might even be able to draw an arc off of the metal pieces. It's too undefined a question to give you a definitive answer. -- For direct replies, take out the contents between the hyphens. -Really!- "Jianhong Wang" wrote in message ... Thank your guys for all your answers. As scott mentioned, I want to the possible max power (dBm) a receiver can get no matter it works or not. I know it depends on a lot of things, like receiver antenna efficiency. But could you give me a empirical number assuming that reciever's antenna is most efficience in the thoery. Thanks (Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ... Bob Haberkost wrote: That question is a non-starter. A poorly-designed reciever will probably freeze up within a mile of a 50kW antenna, while a superb one could likely take several volts-per-Meter and not even squeal, even when within the tuning house or at the base of the tower.. I think his question is how many dBm would be received at the front end when sitting at the base of the tower. Not how many dBm can be received and still use the radio. --scott |
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:58:39 +0000, Bob Haberkost wrote:
That question is a non-starter. A poorly-designed reciever will probably freeze up within a mile of a 50kW antenna, while a superb one could likely take several volts-per-Meter and not even squeal, even when within the tuning house or at the base of the tower.. Seems like the old Mod Monitors would take 10v. Usually from a tap in the final amplifer. Ron |
Well, exactly...sortof. I don't think the question is what was the maximum
that any "receiver" would take, as I also considered the various off-the-transmitter modulation monitors as the top end of that range. What he's clearly asking is how much RF any given receiver would be exposed to at close range. But how close? And with what antenna (what wavelength)? Series or parallel fed? Etc., etc. The question needs many more parameters to get a hard answer, and that hard answer is of no significance since the scenario isn't a real-world question. And the final indication that this is a non-question is the reference to dBm...for dB, one needs an impedance of the load. AM receiving antennas do not conform to an impedance, unlike FM and other VHF and up sets that usually use either 300 or 75-ohm feeds. With those one can take field strengths and convert them to power....without a corresponding impedance, the AM question is undefined. And in the interest of the truth (even for a purposeless question) I wouldn't presume to assume to specify an answer which has no basis in reality. -- For direct replies, take out the contents between the hyphens. -Really!- "Ron" wrote in message ... On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:58:39 +0000, Bob Haberkost wrote: That question is a non-starter. A poorly-designed reciever will probably freeze up within a mile of a 50kW antenna, while a superb one could likely take several volts-per-Meter and not even squeal, even when within the tuning house or at the base of the tower.. Seems like the old Mod Monitors would take 10v. Usually from a tap in the final amplifer. Ron |
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