[BC] BE 4MX50 install at WBIX update

[gRAdy Moates]

We're keeping in on the air all day today, so if you are in the
Boston area, you can hear it now at 40 kW.

Grady

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gRAdy Moates" <lists at loudandclean.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:16 AM
Subject: [BC] BE 4MX50 install at WBIX update


>    WBIX's new Broadcast Electronics 4MX-50 transmitter was delivered on 
> Tuesday afternoon, December 6, 2005, and we put it into the antenna system 
> for extended, experimental hours tests on Thursday morning, December 15th, 
> just after midnight on 1060 kHz at 40 kW.
>    After watching with glee the effortless way this box hits 140% positive 
> peaks (of course, I'll turn them down before the experimental period is 
> over this morning), we watched the Delta (R) common point current meter 
> and noticed that there is no perceivable "carrier shift" movement on the 
> meter with modulation.
>    I was expecting to have problems with leakage of WKOX's 10 kW/1200 kHz 
> signal back through the triplex filters confusing the transmitters VSWR 
> circuitry, but that's just not happening.  The effect that I thought was a 
> bandwidth problem in my initial tests last week turned out to be a 
> software glitch that has been fixed in a newer revision that's now 
> resident in the WBIX transmitter's controller.
>    Jerry Westberg and Steve Schmitt are here from BE, and John Warner is 
> here from Clear Channel (the site landlord).
>
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