[Milsurplus] Base Carrier Current ( Milsurplus Vol 132 issue 4 )

[Hue Miller]

I would tend to agree that carrier current losses are so high thru 
transformers that
multiple repeaters are required to cover a larger area.
HOWEVER....
I recall in Seattle, 1977, and I'm sure I have told this story before, 
but....when AM
was disallowed at the end of 1976 for marine band comms, PNB auctioned off 
their
2522 kcs. transmitter of marine phone station KOW2. The young guys who 
bought
this, around the same age as I, changed the freq to 880 kcs. and wired it 
for
carrier current AND controlled carrier, so supposedly they could make legal
measurement with no audio, and only no audio. They were located around
somewhere like 90th St and 1st Ave North. I could hear them strong at 1.5 
miles
to my residence AND it did seem to DF to the local power line.  KLK 880 went
on for several months until apparently they solicited advertisers, the 
potential
advertisers raised questions, and the FCC got involved.

I recall Don Merz had a 50 watt AM broadcast transmitter setup for Army base
broadcast station. This was intended as I recall, as a complete radio 
station,
with turntable, and all. I really should have bought that, but maybe I 
wasn't
earning as much then. I do have the manual for it somewhere.
-Hue Miller