[BC] Re: Hello

[Dan Kelley]

which model is this?

http://www.fybush.com/Tower%20Site/070302/kast-oldtx.jpg

-dan in lansing
 http://classicrockfm.blogspot.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:broadcast-
> bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Johnson, Richard
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:03 PM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] Re: Hello
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Tom Bosscher wrote:
> 
> > 	It was bought through Audio Distributors, of Grand Rapids
> > past, and it ended up going back to the factory. A gazillion
> > engineers tried their hand with it, and even the factory
> > could not make it work.
> >
> > 	Funny, my question on how many were still on the air after
> > 18 months never got answered.
> >
> > 	tom
> 
> Not "funny." Paul Gregg (http://www.bauertx.com) recalls that about 26
> were built. A survey about 8 years ago showed that 15 were still in
> operation. That is over 50 percent still working after almost 30 years,
> not too bad.
> 
> I'm not sure that any-body's solid-state transmitters, designed at
> that time, did any better. The major problems were the semiconductors.
> If the exact same schematic was reworked today with devices available
> today, you'd probably have the cat's meow of a transmitter. If the
> engineers we had in those days stayed in the Broadcast Transmitter
> industry, advancing the state-of-the-art as they were in the 70's
> when that transmitter was designed, we'd probably have all radio and
> television transmitted from some single quartz tower  somewhere
> (apologies to Ray Dowell who invented that concept). The problem
> is that radio and television gave way to more modern and interesting
> technology. Any youngster, when asked by his high-school guidance
> counselor what he wanted to do for a living, responding with, "I
> want to design radio transmitters," would probably be sent to a
> clinic for observation! No semiconductor manufacturer even wants
> to make transistors anymore. They want to make whole systems-on-a-chip.
> 
> >
> > Douglas B. Pritchett wrote:
> >> Where did that one (WKLA) end up Tomo? At the bottom of Lake Michigan??
> >>
> >
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard B. Johnson
> Project Engineer
> Analogic Corporation
> 
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