{"id":12095,"date":"2015-02-26T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T20:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=12095"},"modified":"2015-02-26T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T20:40:45","slug":"is-there-a-radio-engineer-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=12095","title":{"rendered":"Is there a radio engineer in the house?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like guidance on whether I have the math right.  This is a gross oversimplification ignoring antenna gain, non free space signal loss, directional antennas, etc &#8211; just distance, transmitter ERP and frequency to derive theoretical receiver dBm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image10-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image10-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image10-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image10-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image10.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do those calculations look right?    The FCC protects signals until th dBm reaches -60 dBm, I think.  The station may or may not be heard further depending on the sensitivity of the receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Am I on the right track?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to play along at home,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/findme.php\">http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/findme.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like guidance on whether I have the math right. This is a gross oversimplification ignoring antenna gain, non free space signal loss, directional antennas, etc &#8211; just distance, transmitter ERP and frequency to derive theoretical receiver dBm Do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=12095\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12100,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions\/12100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}