[BC] The Worst transmitter of All Time

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

There is a BC-500J here which was the night xmtr pre DX-10.
There is a BC-1J still operating in the lowcountry in whic , about 20-some
years ago, we converted the audio driver to the cathode follower circuit
used in the RCA BTA-1MX and Gates BC-1T
M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Gleason" <fredg at salemradiolabs.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] The Worst transmitter of All Time


> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 16:08, RadioRan at aol.com wrote:
> >     As I recall, it used four 6L6's to drive the grids  of P-P 833's,
via
> > LOTS of transformers.  Periodically, a B+  surge would course through
the
> > box and wipe out the coupling transformers,  which were really just
jukebox
> > output transformers.  Fortunately, the  station was a Daytimer, so I had
> > all night to put it back together!
>
> I had the 500W version of this (BC-500) on my first gig as an engineer as
> well.  One 833 in the final instead of two, otherwise the same box.  Not a
> bad unit reliability-wise, although when it got cold outside you sometimes
> had to go out and thwack it on the side to get it going in the morning
(this
> was also on a daytimer, and the shack was unheated at the time).
>
> You're right about the audio quality, though.  The foghorn of Elizabeth...
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
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