[BC] Power change schemes

Gary Zocolo ambrose
Fri Dec 15 03:12:21 CST 2006


For one station where they kept forgetting to reduce/increase power, 
I bought 3 digital timers, the kind designed to turn on a table lamp 
at a certain time. I made a pulse circuit out of a couple relays and 
a cap, and connected the 2nd relay closures to the power 
reduce/increase closure inputs. I had to set two of them once a 
month, pre-sunrise happened at the same time all year, but power up 
and power down were never a problem again.

You see Harold, everything old is new again...

Gary Zocolo
Nashville


----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold Hallikainen" 
<harold at hallikainen.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>


35 years ago, when then class 4 stations were only allowed 250W at night,
I had a continual problem with announcers not changing power at the right
time. We had it as a program log entry, which they were constantly looking
at, but they still forgot. I put an Intermatic mechanical timer at the
transmitter site to force it to night power at the correct time. It worked
pretty well. No computer!

Harold

>Then, that is the licensee's fault. Even if the AM station had "hands
>on" jocks, I still would have the computer/remote control, or even a
>timer to lower and raise power. I would trust today's computers more
>than I would a human. Humans tend to forget more often than a computer
>craps out.




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