[R-390] MORE RE RADIO FACILITY

[Richard Loken]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, mikea wrote:

> Megawatt? I wouldn't have thought so from the images I saw. One to ten
> KW, certainly. _Maybe_ 50 KW at most, though I doubt it, but megawatt?
> Where?

I remember the picture.  Those look like medium wave transmitters and they
are very similar to broadcast gear of the era...  10KW maximum.  I cannot
imagine they were 50KW.  Back in the 70's, Somebody (Eimac?)  used to have
an ad in the back of QST with a picture of an umpteen hundred kilowatt
medium wave istallation in the Middle East and it consisted of a large
number of standard sized broadcast transmitter cabinets spaced thoughout the
room and tied together in an unspecified manner.  You could not put a
megawatt in one conenient 6'x6'x6' steel box.

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