[BC] The Worst transmitter of All Time

[Fred Gleason]

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 16:08, RadioRan at aol.com wrote:
>     As I recall, it used four 6L6's to drive the grids  of P-P 833's, via
> LOTS of transformers.  Periodically, a B+  surge would course through the
> box and wipe out the coupling transformers,  which were really just jukebox
> output transformers.  Fortunately, the  station was a Daytimer, so I had
> all night to put it back together!

I had the 500W version of this (BC-500) on my first gig as an engineer as 
well.  One 833 in the final instead of two, otherwise the same box.  Not a 
bad unit reliability-wise, although when it got cold outside you sometimes 
had to go out and thwack it on the side to get it going in the morning (this 
was also on a daytimer, and the shack was unheated at the time).

You're right about the audio quality, though.  The foghorn of Elizabeth...

Cheers!


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