Chuck's right when it comes to AC supply to a BC rig. Many of the kilowatt daytimers are in residential settings, sometimes in a former consumer's home that does not have industrial-grade wiring.
I worked at a 1000 watt daytimer on 900Kc located in a flood plain. Hurricane Agnes came through and swamped the transmitter and station house. Insurance paid cash, and magically the crack engineering team "restored" the flooded transmitter to use as a spare. They cut a hole in an upstairs wall (above high tide) and used a forklift to convey the transmitter into the hole. Trouble was, they did not fortify the wiring, which already was marginal. Carrier shift on heavy modulation was severe, but it kept us on the air when needed. The transmitter was a BC-1H, and we were running a trio of dbx 160 for audio processing, using a Crown splitter to give us independent bass, midrange and treble compression. This was under the old NRSC curve too, not the pre-emphasized, rolled off crap you hear today. The modulation index was high on a format called "progressive" then an Album-Oriented Rock. I still have some aircheck recordings and you know, music on AM can sound pretty doggone good, even with the carrier shift. I used to put the Gates on there just to give it a run and watch the 833A's all lit up, much prettier than the primary, a CCA AM1000D we had downstairs with a little tiny screen-covered hole to peer through to observe tube color. Paul/VJB __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
