[AMRadio] AM Radio

[David Knepper]

Reliability, pure and simple, is why today's public radio stations are 
switching to solid-state transmitters.


David Knepper, W3CRA/W3ST
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Raper" <kj4hyd at gmail.com>
To: <w2xj at w2xj.net>; "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
<amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM Radio


>
> 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
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