[Boatanchors] Short Wave Broadcast Folks:

[Sheldon Daitch]

Richard,

You have any idea how they are modulating those two power amplifiers?

We are running about 2800 hours per month from Kuwait, using five transmitters - two of which are scheduled over 20 hours per day.

73
Sheldon
WA4MZZ


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    FWIW, one of those evangelistic stations is not far from 
here KVOH, beamed to South and Central America.  They 
transmit on a couple of frequencies, I hear them on 9975 
mhz. They have a jazz and big band program (no fooling) on 
Saturday and Sunday evening from 8PM to 9PM Pacific time. 
Not too many "commercials".
    They have two 50KW transmitters built out of a single 
RCA 100H Ampliphase. RCA built only a handful of HF 
Ampliphase transmitters so it might be possible to trace 
this one. The transmitters as they stand are no longer 
Ampliphase type but I don't know what they were converted 
to.  They sound OK but my hearing is not so good. There are 
some details of their antenna on thier web site. The station 
is near Simi Valley, maybe fifteen miles from here so I hear 
ground wave. There is a coverage map on the web site, those 
not too far off the beam can probably hear them pretty well. 
Whatever other religious broadcasters have I suspect this is 
an economy operation.
     I very much miss all the short wave broadcasting, even 
the propaganda stations, but especially the old BBC World 
Service. These days Cuba and China are about the only ones 
left.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk at ix.netcom.com