[BC] tube sound (tube transmitters)

[KKTY]

Had one here when I bought the station. It was old, used and abused, but on
the air. Was absolutely filthy inside, and it looked like every engineer who
ever opened the back door had been required to kludge together another set
of "extra wires to nowhere" to add to the mess. It ran for about two months
& went belly up... I was never able to voodoo it back, so the ol' RCA went
back on as the main.

I sold the Bauer to a ham for $75, you-haul-it-outta-here. He re-wired,
re-painted, re-tuned and restored it. He's very proud of it... brought pic's
by a couple of weeks ago, and it sure looks nice. He'll get my RCA this
summer.

I never noticed anything special about the sound of the Bauer, but mine was
probably not the one to make that judgement by. I did have several engineers
say that they were very simple boxes, simple design & easy to work on. They
ran 4 x 4-400's, which is why the previous owners here bought it... same
tubes as the RCA. Think I read something the other day.. was it on this
list? ... that said the US military used them in Viet Nam...


Dennis Switzer
KKTY AM/FM
Douglas, WY



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Thomson" <rmthomson at earthlink.net>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:56 PM
Subject: [BC] tube sound (tube transmitters)


> To this day, I have yet to hear an AM Xmtr that can match the incredible
> "clarity" of the Bauer 707 . Perhaps I'm deaf in one ear and can't hear
out
> of the other, but there is was something special about that xmtr. Was
> available in a "kit form" they tell me. Anyone here have any thoughts on
> what made it unique ???
>
> RT
>
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