[Milsurplus] Fwd: Base Carrier Current ( Milsurplus Vol 132, Issue 4 )

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If anyone were dumb enough to touch the coupling capacitors, an RF burn 
would have been the least of their worries.  The power station employee who 
made the final connection did it hot.  It put out a good signal over more than 
half of the campus.  The T-47A filled in a dead spot.  The efficiency of 
both was, of course, horrible.  But they did the job for more than a year.

In a message dated 04/11/2015 00:57:33 AM Central Daylight Time, 
bcarling at cfl.rr.com writes: 
> We had carrier current on campus at Southern technical Institute which is 
> now called Southern Polytechnic in Marietta Georgia.
> 
> The station callsign was WSTB.
> 
> I think we ran about 10 or 20 W on the a.m. dial and there are even some 
> websites with information about the station. This was all around 1969 in 
> 1970.
> 
> The friendships among the guys who worked on that station lasted a long 
> time and I am still in touch with a few of them.
> 
> I cannot imagine using the BC 610 and feeding all of that RF on to the AC 
> wiring of the building. If you ran it at full power, it seems like somebody 
> could easily get an RF burn!
> 
> An ART13 will produce quite a bit of peak power on AM too.
> 
> Best regards - Brian Carling
> AF4K Crystals Co.
> 117 Sterling Pine St.
> Sanford, FL 32773
> 
> Tel: +USA 321-262-5471

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