[BC] Re:1 5/8 foam coax

[Robert Meuser]

There is no economy in using old transmitters other than false economy. 
I have seen the smallest and poorest stations save in many ways by 
replacing the antique TX with some thing more efficienct and reliable.  
This is especially true if they have no full time technician.  That is 
those who have business sense.

I mentioned in another post that I would  use an older solid state AM TX 
if I absolutely had to. They are technologically close to what is out 
there now if you discard IBOC operation.  I  also rebuilt and updated a 
Collins 831 to 816R  level (20 years old at the time) because the 
technology had not (and still has not)  changed for that type TX.

Now, please give me a logical reason to keep a 50 year old TX on air. 
Please base this on what a person who is in broadcasting as a business 
not as a hobby would do.  Also, please explain how you will continue to 
keep the rig tubed and how it will  meet emission specs as they are 
tightened.

R


Gary Glaenzer wrote:

>perhaps their thinking was:
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>'It works, and works well, why replace it ?'
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>Now, may I ask a question ?
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>Why the constant bashing of older transmitters, Robert ?
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>It is obvious that you prefer the 'latest and greatest' in transmitters, but
>why the constant griping about folks who use, either by choice or economic
>concerns, something that is 'old' ?
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>Gary
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Robert Meuser" <Robertm at broadcast.net>
>To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [BC] Re:1 5/8 foam coax
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>>What in the world was someone thinking if they signed on a new TX plant
>>in 1992 with a 30 year old TX?
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>>R
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>>Milton R. Holladay Jr. wrote:
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>>>WCEO(nee WCTG) used 1 & 5/8"  foam from xmtr to phasor from sign-on
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>(1992?)
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>>>until I put in an XL-60 in 2004, using 2 & 1/4" foam. It survived many
>>>disasters that blew up connectors and splices in the field, like when the
>>>ground system was stolen or when the main tower ATU fell off the posts,
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>as
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>>>well as the odd times that I had a whole set of hot tubes and could
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>achieve
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>>>~supermodulation (not an easy thing to do with a 317B)
>>>M
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