Re: [NJARC] AM Transmitter - My 2¢ worth.

[John Dilks K2TQN]

At 09:28 PM 3/23/05, someone wrote:
>3Ph phase converters can be built using 3ph motors....

No one has considered that with all the roof space on the various buildings 
there, we could place 3 huge Solar panel arrays and convert them into 
3-phase to run a huge 1/2 KW transmitter on low power using only the 
exciter to feed a weak signal to the various buildings at InfoAge.  :-)

For what?

Come on guys, get real.

It's OK to get the radio for display.  = $500.

It's OK to fix it up for ham radio.  = probably free, or very low cost

Is it OK to set it up to broadcast AM to the area and to have an AM 
station?  = Cost = excessive.

Who's going to fund a big project like this?  Then you have to keep it on 
the air, this takes people and more funds.  If you want to do this, you 
better get a big daddy with deep pockets.

I'd be happier to see a large building "actually" get fixed up and 
converted into the museum we dreamed about having. With a real library 
filled with books and papers. With several display areas including, the 
Broadcasters Hall of Fame, Local NJ radios, Ham Radios, Radar and Military, 
a meeting hall, etc.

What I'm saying is, don't get side-tracked with a huge dead end, big dollar 
project that will still need a place to put it.  Let's get the place 
first.  This isn't the last broadcast transmitter available.  There will be 
more later on.  And occasionally they are available for free; just come and 
take it away they say. (It happens all the time.)

My 2¢ worth.

73, John Dilks, K2TQN