[BC] Re: VP-50 vapor Phase and stuff.

[Alan Kline]

------ At 07:36 AM 1/3/2006 EST, The Most Honourable DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote: -------
> 
>In a message dated 1/2/06 10:34:53 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
>akline at netins.net writes:
>
>If KAAY  had had a VP back in the old days, would they have given the world  
>"Beaker
>Street", with the weird music between records?  ;-)
>++++++++++++++++++
> 
>Al:
> 
> If you are talking about the RCA 50F,  that was one of the best  air cooled 
>transmitters.  That transmitter used low velocity of air to cool  the tubes.  
>The transmitter was really quite compared to the MW-50 that  replaced it.

Right; it was the RCA that was on-air at the time "Beaker" started.  The background
music behind the mic was meant to cover the blower noise of the 50F, since Clyde Clifford
was the TX operator as well as well as DJ by default. Even a relatively quiet rig would
have been too noisy in a "studio", even a makeshift one.

I was just wondering if that music would have been necessary with a quieter rig.  Without
the blower noise to cover, would we have ever had "Beaker" as it came to be known?

ak