[BC] BE AM 2.5 stereo problem

[Tom Taggart]

Andy..

Great to hear you have AM stereo, which makes IBOC look like a  
grade-school science experiment.

Last time I worked with AM stereo it was with a Motorola C-Quam  
exciter driving a RCA high-level modulated tube transmitter (A 5U or  
something like that--getting on 25 years). Into a  3 tower dogleg  
array with a 1938 phaser. We had better separation than that...

So I would be suspicious of the transmitter or exciter rather than the  
antenna (although if you had a dummy load..)

Given that you have apparently not used this system for a while may be  
the problem is as simple as a leaky cap.  As I vaguely remember you  
can drive the AM stereo monitor from a sample off the exciter--so if  
separation is poor there a shot-gunning of filter, coupling and bypass  
caps may be in order.

If low-level is OK, than we need to wait for the BE experts to chime  
in. Never worked on their 2.5 kw AM.