[CW] SAQ

[Ken Brown]

Hi Jan,

     Thank you so much for posting that. In 1998 Bengt Dagas (in the 
video) gave Mary K6FK and I a personal tour of the whole SAQ facility. 
Absolutely fantastic. Bengt could not turn on the Alexanderson 
alternator for us, but he did show us the entire procedure of turning on 
every water pump (for liquid rheostats) oil pump (lubrication), air pump 
(to blow out arcs in keying relays) necessary to get SAQ 17.2 kilocycles 
on the air. The control panel is full of relays and knife switches and 
is made of marble, painted black, as was common practice for big 
electrical control panels in those days. (there are many more examples 
of marble control panels in the radio museum in Motala, some not painted 
so natural marble is visible)
     Bengt took us out to the base of one of the towers. He said I was 
welcome to climb one. I did not even make it up to the point where the 
four leg sections join together. At that point I was probably higher 
than I have ever climbed on any tower, probably about 80 feet.
     I still have never heard SAQ on the air, except on files from the 
internet. Someday.....

Ken N6KB


Jan Alsin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> was surfing around on the internet this beautiful sunday morning, when i 
> found this  link to a presentation of the Grimeton radio station, SAQ. 
> It is in Swedish, but the pictures are telling a lot for themselves.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-siA79K4E&feature=related
>
> 73
> SM6YWU
> Jan
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