Christmas on the Farm

I agree Rustoleum does it.

Great display!

FANTASTIC!

Thanks Chuck

I'm near Kingsburg. https://www.facebook.com/BradsLights/?ref=page_internal Come by next year.

That's great! Years ago when our display was in town, we were walking up to our door and out of a car sitting right out front a boy said; Mom look! Do they get to live here?

I've had people ask; "how do you get the radio station to play the songs you want?"

Probably has no idea how radio propagation works.

I would like to hear if you have any funny comments from those who have watched your display. I’ll start; yesterday evening I went out to the road to pick up trash from the previous night’s viewers (a story in itself). A man stopped and asked me “why is this radio station so fuzzy at my house"? I asked where he lived; “in town” (that means at least 2 miles) I replied; I don’t think you can hear it at all there. He said; it’s just not right. I said; it would be illegal. Second; a lady came to the door and in the middle of the day asked me to turn on the display as she had driven so far. I politely let her know she would not be able to see anything anyway as the sun was out in full force. She went back out to the road and sat there for 20 minutes.

When he got back in the car he probably asked how was the show? Answer: you idiot you where in it!

A neighbor that owned the local drive in theater recommended the Ramsey FM100 transmitter to me. I have 2 Ramsey FM100B transmitters for my display (one back up) for almost 8 years now. I researched it and then put it to the test. The in car sound is great! Broad banded audio stable carrier frequency. Also, staying within FCC regs. the transmit footprint propagates excellent clean audio over the entire frontage of our display. We are in the country and the transmitter is along way off the street and the FM100B makes up for it. I also like the “sort of” mixer. It allows 2 sources to be mixed for output. Two concerns; #1, I wish it had native RDS. I really would like to add RDS to my display transmission someday. You can do it by home brewing into the IF circuit. For reasons to be covered in concern 2 I don’t want to hack up the PWB. #2, As of 1 Jan.’16 Ramey Hobby Kits has discontinued manufacturing transmitter kits. http://www.arrl.org/news/ramsey-kits-calls-it-quits What is out there are the remaining kits in the supply chain. I hate to see the support go for such fine radios.

I agree, both radios should do fine. I think most horror stories you hear may be do to issues like; antenna placement, computer to radio cable cross polarization of even radio/computer proximity. Make a clean setup and it should be great.

I use backlit Duratrans.

https://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/show/item/SN140?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyb_W9I6G1wIVEFp-Ch1wDQxrEAkYHyABEgJ8w_D_BwE Will not short out tracks

I have heard so many stories of people wanting you to stay off their property or get a proscriptive easement on your property. I guess the best thing to say is; good fences make for good neighbors.