[AMRadio] AM Radio

[Kevin Raper]

On Jan 25, 2012, at 5:28 PM, W2XJ wrote:
> I said well maintained. There are few that have not been butchered over 
> the decades. Also, there are few if any AM stations still running a tube 
> TX in the 21st century that would be spending hard earned money on HD, 
> especially at the 1 KW level. Any station running tubes these days would 
> be doing so because they can not afford to go SS and have been in that 
> state for a few decades.

Then there is WASC. They have a BC-1G in as good, if not better condition than when it rolled out of Quincy as the Main Transmitter Because the owner says "REAL Radio Transmitters glow in the dark".

> CCA went bankrupt in 2002. The last time I was in the GA factory they 
> were only doing FM.

An AM1000D went in WSPG in 2002 replacing a tired MW-1.

> I know of no high power AM tube rigs (50 KW and under) still actually 
> being manufactured.

There are a couple coming out of China, but not marketed in this part of the World.

73,
Kevin Raper
KJ4HYD
CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ

There is no limitation to the fidelity of AM radio. From a mathematical standpoint, AM does better in frequency response than FM. - Leonard Kahn