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Kirk
Intermediate Member
Username: Kirk
Post Number: 289
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 5:15 pm: | 
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This is an RCA BTF-20 installed in 1950. Still running (aux transmitter) when we need it to. I will try to get some better pics of the guts at some point, but it's such a pretty thing.  Just wanted to share a piece of history.--73  |
Chad
Intermediate Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 343
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 9:38 pm: |
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Awesome! Is that an inside the studio view, hence the angled double pane glass?
Chad |
Coyote
Intermediate Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 250
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 10:34 pm: |
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That is cool. I got to see one very similar, approx. same year model in use at our local AM radio station, WBRY in Woodbury TN. It was awesome to see that huge tube glow'n in the dimmly lit room it was in. I think that one is bigger than the one WBRY uses. It was only 500w. |
Kirk
Intermediate Member
Username: Kirk
Post Number: 289
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:46 am: |
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Chad- that is actually at the Transmitter site. Studio is about 15 miles away. When this site was built, they generated the program from the Transmitter site (so yes...at one time it WAS the Studio). We still have the control console that an Engineer sat at and 'controlled' while a program was on the air. I'll get a pic of that too and send it along.
Coyote- This is a 20 Kw FM Transmitter (2-10 Kw cabinets combined later in plumbing). It's a really neat piece of History. Anybody that might read this that lives in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area and wants a tour...leeme know! Be happy to show you around.
b.t.w- If you look to the very left of the picture, you'll see part of a the newest generation of FM Transmitters. It's a Harris Z16 Platninum IBOC Digital that does about 4 Kw (Solid State). It's the latest and 'greatest'....sometimes 73-- Kirk |
Chad
Intermediate Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 351
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 1:15 pm: |
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I engineered at a station that had the transmitters in the studio building. I never liked the idea of having 50,000 watts aimed at the back of my head even if the RF levels were OK. Just seen too many blow up in bad ways
Chad |
Kirk
Intermediate Member
Username: Kirk
Post Number: 290
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 9:32 pm: |
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I've always had some type of RF injected in me...actually this is lower level than I was in TV...but I love it! Great job and good company to work for...and people pay me to do it! Incredible! Where did you work Chad? |
Chad
Intermediate Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 354
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 2:18 pm: |
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Illini radio group, owned by Saga Communications. |
