[BC] AEL

[James Somich]

AEL had their own exciter before selling re-badged units. We had one at
K-100 in L.A.
But it wasn't very good. Had a tendency to totally jump off frequency.
Drove John Davis crazy!

On 12/31/06, milton R. Holladay Jr. <miltron at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> ~1974, they were making their own exciter, 4 or5 RUs tall.
> Their high voltage rectifiers seemed to be very good; I saw them being
> made
> in their basement, operators using microscopes to assemble them........
> M
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Glaenzer" <glaenzer at verizon.net>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [BC] RCA History earliest transmitter
>
>
> > Harold;
> >
> > Seeing the link to that exciter reminds me...............we noticed that
> the
> > front panel had been turned around and re-stencilled, and under the
> black
> > paint on the inside you could read 'QEI'
> >
> > AEL bought QEI exciters and re-badged them
> >
> > G
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Harold Hallikainen" <harold at hallikainen.com>
> >
> >
> > > I installed a couple 5kW AEL FM transmitters in the early 1970s. Some
> of
> > > their manuals are at
> > >
> >
>
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