{"id":8184,"date":"2009-10-24T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/el-silbo-michael-raineys-amazing-voice-powered-dsb-transmitter\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:10:59","slug":"el-silbo-michael-raineys-amazing-voice-powered-dsb-transmitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/el-silbo-michael-raineys-amazing-voice-powered-dsb-transmitter\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;El Silbo&#8221;: Michael Rainey&#8217;s Amazing Voice-Powered DSB Transmitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ElSilbo-custom.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ElSilbo-custom.jpeg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396017427460545282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Oh man, the wizard of the Vermont hobbit hole has really outdone himself this time. Michael Rainey, AA1TJ, has posted a very interesting report on his experiments with voice-powered radio. I was, of course, delighted that he went with DSB. Check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjrainey.googlepages.com\/elsilbo\">http:\/\/mjrainey.googlepages.com\/elsilbo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to seem like I&#8217;m taking any credit for this, but I did provide Michael some technical advice on how to increase power output:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);\">Michael: Obviously the Italian elements in the project were of critical importance. Some of them may have escaped your attention. I note that an olive can was involved&#8230; For further progress I think you should consider working in some of the other substances that help keep <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1256358572_0\">Italy<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);\"> going: cappuccino, Nutela, and perhaps some vino bianco&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);\">Another thing: While you are shouting, be sure to use the proper gesticulations. I recommend that you go Neapolitan here &#8212; they are the best. <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);\">I&#8217;d say that before each CQ, you should put yourself in a Neapolitan frame of mind: imagine that someone has bumped into your car and that you and the other guy are arguing about who is at fault. This should generate at least 20 mW! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);\">In boca a lupo! 73<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);\">Bill<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, the wizard of the Vermont hobbit hole has really outdone himself this time. Michael Rainey, AA1TJ, has posted a very interesting report on his experiments with voice-powered radio. I was, of course, delighted that he went with DSB. Check it out: http:\/\/mjrainey.googlepages.com\/elsilbo I don&#8217;t mean to seem like I&#8217;m taking any credit for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/el-silbo-michael-raineys-amazing-voice-powered-dsb-transmitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;El Silbo&#8221;: Michael Rainey&#8217;s Amazing Voice-Powered DSB Transmitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,140,85,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aa1tj","category-italy","category-minimalist-radio","category-rainey-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8186,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions\/8186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}