[GreenKeys] WLO

Chris Elmquist chrise at pobox.com
Sun Aug 21 17:51:22 EDT 2011


Thanks Nick.

This helps a lot to understand where things stand currently.

I'll continue trying to copy here in MN when it appears to be back
on the air.

73, Chris N0JCF

On Sunday (08/21/2011 at 04:11PM -0400), NICKTUSA at aol.com wrote:
> To all:
>  
> If there is no feed from George, the WLO transmitter on 8473 simply goes  
> silent after a time out.  Rene and George are working on some other  
> alternatives to make the operation more stable.  At this point, it is all  
> experimental.
>  
> Should the number of listeners somehow justify an expansion of service,  
> Rene would consider transmissions on different frequencies. WLO is licensed  
> and equipped to operate on as many as 100 channels at a time. Their 
> transmitter  site occupies 80 acres. However, always-on multiple 5KW output 
> transmitters  cost money to operate.  The current 8473KHz rig is actually running  
> only 300-watts.  Soon it will be 1KW.
>  
> Nick  K5EF
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