First of all a lot of people buy the am1000 just for fun. A lot of
people enjoy setting up the Rangemaster in their own neighborhoods
and broadcasting to their neighbors and friends. People can
broadcast their favorite kind of music, produce their own shows and
report neighborhood news. An HOA (Home owners association) may
provide funds to purchase an AM1000 to broadcast neighborhood news
and events. The AM1000 will provide excellent range for a
neighborhood system, 1- 1.5 miles.
Multiple Transmitters!
Cover your entire community!
Here’s What Can You Do With The Rangemaster…
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Commercial Radio
- The Rangemaster sounds better on the air (where you can pick
it up) than some local commercial AM stations. So if you have
the time and money, you can buy one and become a small town’s
first commercial radio station. If you want to expand your
signal, the Rangemaster allows GPS synch or cabled master/slave
connections between units. In other words, you can add to your
coverage by adding more transmitters on the same frequency –
your only limit is your budget! (And don’t forget to pay your
music royalties.)
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College / University Student Radio – If your former student
station has been hijacked by NPR, then get some funds together
and get one of these. If your college has never had a student
station, then you don’t know what you’re missing. Wake Forest
University’s WAKE is cable FM - they could easily place a few of
these around the perimeter of the campus (getting the signal
from cable FM tuners) and serve northern Winston-Salem. Barton
College has never had a radio station of any type, and the
school’s small footprint means one Rangemaster should easily
cover all of the dorm rooms.
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Translator / Satel-lator
- If you are in love with a distant station that you can barely
hear, then get a high gain antenna, a good tuner, and feed the
audio into the Rangemaster. You’ll be able to hear the formerly
weak station clearly all over the place. Religious organizations
might want to buy a lot of these units to put signals into areas
where the FM band is full. A perfect example would be adding
K-Love and/or Air1 to a metropolitan college by building a tower
just outside the campus.
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Shopping Districts
– Tell everybody about how good your mall is, or that downtown
is still alive. Don’t forget to buy a digital recorder that
repeats the message.
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Campground Radio
– Fun for the campers!
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RV Parks
– Tell your visitors about the area, sell some ads!
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Resort Areas
– An ideal application for low-power radio. Everyone is tightly
packed into one spot and with readily-available vacation cash.
The Rangemaster’s broadcast serves as an exciting
shopping/dining guide. Just put out brochures, and start selling
advertising.
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Historic Sites
– In addition to facts, tell everyone about visiting hours, the
gift shop, and other things to do in the area.
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Ferry Parking Areas
– On the way over to Ocracoke, Bald Head Island, or whatever
other place over the water, people sit and wait for the boat –
YOU have a CAPTIVE audience. They are just sitting there in
their cars. Put up a sign, and tell them what’s happening at
their destination!
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Event Parking (Fairs, Sports, Concerts) – Broadcast rules,
regulations, advertising, etc.
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In-Venue Play-by-Play Broadcast – Modern radio now has
an awful delay due to digital compression and new
profanity-delay gear. A Rangemaster will return your station’s
ability to serve patrons at the ballgame.
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Event Language Translation
– Billy Graham’s organization has been doing this sort of thing
for years. Using a Rangemaster, now your group can invite the
local Spanish speaking population to join in. Just make sure
that you have a good interpreter and lots of ‘Walkman’ type
radios available when you fire up the transmitter.
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Restaurants
- Let the customers know the "special of the day" while they are
in the area or just waiting in the drive thru! Let them know
what frequency you're on with signs and newspaper ads.
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Real Estate
- Radio is great for new sub division sales, let folks who are
driving around know what is going on as the sub division is
being built, and when lots are ready broadcast a sales
presentation 24/7!
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Car Dealerships
- Radio Ford! Play music and your commercials. Customers can
listen to as they take their test drive.
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Hotels
- Radio is great for directions, especially if you are hard to
find or are at the end of a snaggle of roads, just tell the
customer what frequency to listen to when they get close & talk
them in!
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High Schools
- Practice for a communications class, practice being on the air
to your community or just have a school station for fun!
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Churches
- Radio is great to let prospective guests know more about the
church before they set foot on church grounds. Also it can be a
parking aid, making the first time guest visit much smother.
Tell them where to park, where to take their kids depending on
age, service times, how to get connected!
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Companies
- A company radio station! It's hard to get information to the
employees, when they want to know what's going on they can tune
here.
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Condo Associations
- Let the folks know what's going on with radio, also the system
can be used to inform in case of emergency!
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Banks
- Talk to customers waiting in your drive thru and the
surrounding area!
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Golf courses - Swim Clubs
- A club radio station! You can use radio for basic parking
information or keep a complete schedule of events broadcasting
for your patrons convenience.
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Construction Information
- Let them know what's going on! Instead of questions and
curious looks put all the information on the air!
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Native American Reservations
- Our unit often has the perfect range to cover a village, play
native american music.
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Rest Stops
- Play the weather and/or travel information for the traveler.
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Ranches, Resorts
- Let your guests know as they are arriving where to go, greet
them with radio! They can go through a "mini orientation" as
they are coming up the driveway!
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Christmas Light Display
- The big benefit here is the RangeMaster's range, most light
display's cover a large area. Enhance the show with sound!
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City Tours
- Give the tourist walkman type AM radios and send them out!
with the range of the RangeMaster they could walk around a large
area like old Williamsburg and still pick you up. Several
frequencies could be used to talk about different areas.
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Solar
- The RangeMaster can easily go solar! Add a 40-60 watt panel,
marine battery and a trace controller and you are in business!