[BC] Carribean 200 kW. AM on 1605 kHz

Scott Fybush scott
Wed Jul 5 09:48:41 CDT 2006


Jeff Welton wrote:
> Dave H. commented:
>> It is my recollection the Trans World Radio on 800 kHz. dropped the
>> Continental 500 kW transmitter many years back and has a BBC
> transmitter.   I
>> don't recall the power.  Is the old Continental 100 kW. plate modulated
> short >wave still operating in Bon Aire?
> 
> I don't know about the shortwave, but the 800kHz has been running one of
> our NA100 transmitters for about 7 years  - not certain what model it
> was replacing, but the Continental 500kW was still on site at the time
> of install, according to the field guy that commissioned the 100kW.

The only 800 kHz transmitter that was on site and operational when I 
visited Bonaire in 1996 was a Brown-Boveri. There are some fuzzy pics here:

http://www.fybush.com/sites/2006/site-060526.html

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