[BC] Transmitter failures

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Analog TV transmitters are rated by tip-of-sync.  Average power is
much less- so you can't compare a 25KW TV transmitter with a 25KW FM
which is rated in constant RMS power.

 - Nat Kayle

On 4/29/07, Milton R Holladay Jr. <miltron at mindspring.com> wrote:
> In the late 80s, I saw a solid state 30kW UHF TV transmitter (Philips, IIRC)
> at the NAB in LV, and, IIRC, it was not really terribly large, maybe
> 10'long.
> Now, here we are, ~20 years later, and no one seems to be able to package a
> VHF FM transmitter that is commensurately smaller; 100mHz should be a lot
> easier and smaller to implement than 400+mHz . And then there is the
> Platinum VHF TV line ; how big and powerful are they?
> If progress moved linearly, it seems to me that we should have 20 or 30 kw
> FMs the size of a couple of racks by now. Wha hoppen?
> M