Circuit Breaker wrote:

Thanks for the help, Joe - I'll let you know how it goes when I get the
chance. Right now my father's needing my help loading a trailer with

Well, I got the chance.

Worked marvellously. I now have that same 1300 foot range I had before.

Yeah, big deal, I know, but this is big for me - first "properly working",
tunable, hard-soldered FM transmitter for me that can go farther than my
bathroom.

Only problem now is getting rid of the 60-cycle hum from my homebrew power
supply. Should be simple enough, and today I added the missing .1 uF
electrolytic capacitor to the power terminals (was missing, don't know why
I never put it in before). Still have the hum though. That's okay, this
problem should be very well documented in the ARRL handbook. I'll go
consult it.

I plan to revamp my cheesy little freewebs website - I'll be posting the
schematics of things I built and found to be useful. This transmitter
will definitely be among them.

73, de KE4EDD
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