[BC] Boring transmitters

[Peter Smerdon]

Surely the Nautel is not feeding that very, VERY poor match point?

Scott Cason wrote:
> 
> I have a BTA1R as a back up in Louisville.  Do you realize how much
> power you are wasting with running that old, inefficient transmitter?
> I'll give you an example.  Recently one of my clients Bauer 707 went
> belly up.  It's repairable, however it wasn't coming back on the air
> within a week so I convinced him to purchase a new Nautel J1000
> transmitter.  His power bill went from $400 watts a month to $80!
> That's a savings of $320 a month.  And that's not counting having to run
> the air conditioning units at full blast to keep the Bauer cool.  Just
> on the power bill alone the Nautel will pay for itself in 3 years.  This
> is not taking into account the two sets of tubes he was going through in
> a year because the Bauer was feeding into a very, VERY poor match on the
> antenna.  

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Peter Smerdon.

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