[BC] Oldest Transmitter still in daily service

[Phil Alexander]

On 9 Dec 2005 at 17:21, AM Lover wrote:

> I love the old transmitters the best, nothing beats the warm glow of tubes.  And the light company loves the power consumption as well.
> 
> I was wondering what the oldest transmitter any of you still know of in daily service in the USA might be?  I know of at least one collins21e still online as the main transmitter, thats only going back to 1961 or so, surely someone still has an old old transmitter still running.  I know of a tv station that was still running old G E transmitters last time i checked, one went way back in time to the 1950s when it was installed USED and still runs everyday or did a couple years ago........but what about am/fm?
> 
> 
> I would love to hear of any pre 1965 transmitters still running daily.

Now and then, people have mention Gates BC-1F's on the list that are still 
running, but I don't recall where. The BC-1F dates to about 1950. I think
if you look hard you might also find a few Collins 20V2's out there, and
those date to the mid-50's.

If you simply want to predate 1965, find a Gates BC-1T. Hundreds if not
thousands of those were built in about 1960-65 as Class IV's were allowed
to increase day power from 250 W to 1 kW. This was before they were
permitted 1 kW night operation, and the BC-1T had a 1kW/250 manual switch
as standard equipment.


Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037





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