[Milsurplus] AN/TRC-1

[Ray Fantini]

Great pictures of old broadcast sites! Seeing all those old high power transmitters and associated equipment makes me wonder if we will ever see anything like that again. Have seen many of the larger broadcast operations scale back things, equipment gets  smaller and require so little maintenance and the real questions on what the future of terrestrial broadcasting will be. The little CC group that I do work for has three FM and two AM stations in this market and at the central studio location we have maybe six studios and for the last several years we only use one for several hours a day and the second for a morning show with everything else playing out of a server for each station. Three of the stations are programmed and operated almost entirely over the corporate WAN Think that if and when the FCC eliminates the rule requiring you to keep your main studio in the city of license you will see the end of the local radio station as it once existed with everything being run from regional centers with some form of local sales and production of spots, but no more studios. This is a link to a web page that shows some of my transmitter sites:
http://staff.salisbury.edu/~rafantini/transmitter_site_tour.htm

RF

-----Original Message-----
From: Sheldon Daitch [mailto:sdaitch at kuw.ibb.gov] 
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:56 AM
To: Francesco Ledda
Cc: Ray Fantini; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] AN/TRC-1

In some cases, FDM was still in use into the mid-1990s.

VOA still had the mix of tubed and solid state FDM on the two microwave systems from Greenville Site C to each of the two transmitter sites, A and B.

See photos 9 and 10 at:

http://www.boxoprints.com/voagreenville

73
Sheldon
WA4MZZ