What a gorgeous old transmitter! I saw one at WFLI in Chattanooga... A "man's transmitter"!
Fred Moore
14-Apr-2007 17:20
This baby ran 50 Amps of r.f. current into the phasor common point. It took up half a floor of the building inside a fence behind this front panel. It was water-cooled by pumps downstairs.
Ah, yes, the old Western Electric 409. It took two of us to lift out and change a final power tube in this transmitter.
Occasionally, a high voltage overload caused a loud "pop" in the back. The office supplies were stored near the fence and if you were back there when it went off, it was startling, to say the least.
All the jocks had First Class FCC licenses when I was there and they hung in a row where the clock is in this picture. a
David Oliphant was the r.f. Engineer for several years. This box was replaced with a new Continental 50 kW transmitter around '68.
Fred Moore
14-Apr-2007 17:16
This baby ran 50 Amps of r.f. current into the phasor common point. It took up half a floor of the building inside a fence behind this front panel. It was water-cooled by pumps downstairs.
Occasionally, a high voltage overload caused a loud "pop" in the back. The office supplies were stored near the fence and if you were back there when it went off, it was startling, to say the least.
All the jocks had First Class FCC licenses when I was there and they hung in a row where the clock is in this picture.
