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

[Peter Gottlieb]

Efficiency?  You do what it takes...  just be glad you weren't one of those 
UHF-TV stations that had to put out megawatts to cover their area.  Electric 
bills were one of their largest operating expenses.


On 4/11/2015 11:51 AM, WA5CAB--- via Milsurplus wrote:
> 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
> Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
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