[BC] Oldest Transmitter still in daily service

[Steve]

I believe that's the Gates model we had at KFXX in Seattle in 1981. They
would have me modulate that poor old puppy to death with a CRL package.
Burnt up more chokes. The circulating current in the driver cabinet was a
bit much when things got 'rockin'! I must say thought, it sure sounded good
to me. It was used at the night site. A four-tower array that Hatfield &
Dawson put together. Had to get an FCC variance as it didn't cover South
Seattle at night but where I live in North Seattle I was in like a 25KW
beam. That Kirkland site has stories. It's now a Disney station.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Alexander" <dynotherm at earthlink.net>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Oldest Transmitter still in daily service


> 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
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