On the behest of Jonnie Common [new album Master of None out now), I have today been investigating the feasability of broadcasting using multiple Nifties in close range, with good results today. I tried this at the time of the Common Thread deployment last autumn and got all sorts of interference troubles (a kind of fluttering/beating phenomenon) but apparently today in the flat there is no such problem. In fact I can get my v0.24 and my home v0.1 broadcasting pretty cleanly within 0.5 Mhz of each other 88.6 and 89.1 to be precise. Jonnie is after a simultaneous broadcast on 8 channels, so that would cover 3.5 Mhz of the spectrum in total, I guess from 87 up to 90.5 would be the easiest. will need to test that too.

A big issue here with the nifties in their current form is that the drifting of broadcast wavelength is (even more) annoying as the transmitters could drift into each other’s range as well as out of the receiver’s range. So I think we will require regulated DC 9V supply to each board from a mains supply, snapping onto the usual PP3 clips. That of course means I can do away with the battery trays entirely, so could do a bulk sleeve that houses 8 circuit boxes perhaps? Could look pretty nice with the new home v0.1 layout, and jack to jacks coming from mixer to transmitter box. Like an addon rack for a wee mixer.. Will do a drawing!

Roy