[BC] Why an older transmitter may be a good choice

[Rob Atkinson]

I agree that a s.s. tx makes sense monitarily, but something happened 
recently that made me think keeping an old tube rig as an aux is not a bad 
idea.  I can't recall what it was for sure but it may have been the WFIN 
tower accident.  I guess if you have an antenna emergency and you have to 
temporarily work into a less than satisfactory load, a tube rig might be 
happier with that.

rob atkinson
st. charles IL
k5uj

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Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [BC] Why an older transmitter may be a good choice



I once bet a station that they could borrow the money and
make payments for 5 years on a new 1kw Energy Onyx for the
same as maintenance and energy costs on the old RCA.  I
told them that I would pay the difference if they couldn't
do it.  I should have put a stipulation in that they had to
pay me the difference if it was less.  They paid it off in
a little over 4 years of maintenance and energy
savings.  It was running a bunch of PSSA power into a dummy
all night.

The new transmitter has operated over 4 years with no
maintenance other than cleaning and a couple of high
current bridge rectifiers.

At some point it just doesn't make CENTS to keep throwing
money at an old transmitter.

Later,

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