[ETS/PARC List] The most powerful AM radio station

[Don WILSON]

HI PETE,

   MANY YEARS AGO I WORKED AT WWJRZ-AM IN MT. HOLLY, NJ.

WE SHARED  BROADCAST STUDIOS WITH A RELIGIOUS STATION SERVING THE MT. HOLLY AREA.

  THE CHIEF ENGINEER FOR THE OTHER STATION WAS A GUY NAME MIKE.   (NEVER NEW HIS LAST NAME)

ONE DAY MIKE GAVE ME A COLLINS R390-UUR MILITARY RECEIVER AND SAID HE PICKED UP AT A LAWN SALE.  MIKE WAS NOT A HAM.

MIKE ALSO TOLD ME HE ALSO WORKED AT XERF BEFORE COMING TO NJ.  RUNNING THAT MUCH POWER CAUSE HIM AND OTHERS WORKING AT THE TRANSMITER AND ANTENNA SYSTEM TO COME DOWN WITH CANCER.

  MIKE'S WIFE TOLD ME MIKE HAD BRAIN CANCER AND PASSED AWAY ABOUT SIX MONTHS AFTER I LEFT WWJRZ.AM.

RUNNING THAT MUCH POWER ON AM BROSDCAST STATIONS WAS ONLY ALLOWED IN MEXICO AT ONE TIME.

  RUNNING A KILOWATT OUT PUT ON 10 METERS AND FREQ'S UP CAN ALSO WILL CAUSE SOME VERY BAD HEALTH PROBLEMS IF YOUR TOO CLOSE TO THE ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERN.
  I HAVE THE FREQ. AND POWER LEVEL FORMUA WE HAD TO USE AT WORK IN ONE OF MY CUMPUTERS.  I'LL HAVE TO FIND IT AND LET THE CLUB MEMBERS HAVE FUN USING IT AND SHOW WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR.
           HAVE A VERY GOOD WEEK.
                  VRI BEST 73.
                       DON  K2DSV
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His station was also one of the first commercial broadcasting successes.1 .... as a directional antenna which "shot the signal northward at a red-hot million watts.


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