[BC] Re: CONTINENTAL 10 KW AM'S TUBE TYPE

[CBoone]

The 315 is still there @ 1190 (was in 2001 last time I was there
anyway)....but as the backup xmtr (Gates 5 is the new night xmtr)......and
we had a 10KW 316 at KEYH 850...well it WAS there....the box was junk and I
heard the last time anyone tried to fire it up, it blew breakers and arched
internally....so it was replaced by a DX-10...but the CEC was still
supporting the AM dummy load (that xmtr site was scary anyway).

Chris

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> Subject: [BC] Re: CONTINENTAL 10 KW AM'S TUBE TYPE
> 
> The next was sometime that Saintone was working on in 1968 
> when I was looking at transmitters for KLIF's new 12 tower 
> array.  They had a working prototype 10 kW two-tube solid 
> state transmitter.  They finally got it out about 1971 as the 
> 315F and 316F, using two 4CX10000's in the 5 kW and two 
> 4CX15000's in the 10 kW.  The tubes operated in a Doherity 
> amplifier making it more efficient than running in linear 
> fashion as the two previous models.  The also set it up so 
> you essentially peaked the grids and dipped the plates which 
> was the way most class C plate modululated rigs tuned.
> 
> These two transmitters were the FIRST two-tube 5 and 10 kW AM 
> transmitters and predated the MW-5 from Gates and by several 
> more years the MW-10 from Harris.
> 
> Dave