[BC] Gates VP-50 ?

[PeterH5322@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/2/06 5:13:53 AM, DHultsman5 at aol.com writes:


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This would have been KXEL, Waterloo, IA, a Class A on 1540.

Yet, one would think that KXEL would have been #1 and not KDAY, which was 
waaaaaaaaaaay out there in Santa Monica, on account of the distance from the 
Quincy Tin Works.

Anyway, KDAY, always the innovator, and a loyal Gates customer, had one of 
the earliest Amplifuzzes, and its original Tx was a 10 kW plate-modulated Gates, 
which was retained in the move from National Boulevard near Santa Monica, to 
Alvarado and Effie Streets, in Los Angeles, thereby making the new, and 
current, 50 kW DA-2 site an all-Gates shop, although the VP-50 is now gone.

I'd guess the VP-50 was installed in 1968, about thirty-nine years ago.