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

[Robert Meuser]

unless you re-match the antenna. This is the kind of stuff you are paid for.


R

Rob Atkinson wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Kevin C. Kidd,
> CSRE
> 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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