[BC] Phasitron...

[Dana Puopolo]

From: PeterH <peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com>

>>On Nov 29, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Burt I. Weiner wrote:
>>One of L.A.'s good to great NCEs, KCRW, had a 250 watt GE Tx with its  
>>Phasitron exciter well into the 1960s, broadcasting from the basement  
>>of the SMC (formerly SMCC) shops building, a few doors down from the  
>>print shop IIRC.
>
>My own institution had an equally old exciter, a Serrasoid.

There probably still is a 250 watt GE transmitter tuned to 107.1 with a
Phasitron exciter in the basement of the Brockton Enterprise Newspaper in
Brockton, MA. It's been there since the mid '50s. It was formerly used for
WBKA-FM in Brockton.

-D