[BC] Most powerful AM radio station....

[Bruce Doerle]

John,
 
In Kuwait, the IBB station has a Marconi 600kW mediumwave souped up with the Continental Solid State Modulator and a seven tower array, slewable.  Most of the slew positions were designed to give 5.6 dB gain, but the array when slewed towards Pakistan/Afgahnastan had a 8dB gain.  That will knock the socks off anything here.  We had about a 92% efficiency in the PA stage thanks to the third harmonic traps in the grid and plate circuits.
 
Have a nice day John,
 
Bruce 

>>> jvodenik at sosinet.net 11/14/05 7:26 AM >>>



On Mon Nov 14  3:32 , DHultsman5 at aol.com sent:

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>In a message dated 11/14/2005 5:06:00 AM Central Standard Time,  
>jvodenik at sosinet.net writes:
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>But  does the RF know that?  I don't remember seeing licensed by FCC as  a
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>requirement.  Gotta support my brothers in  Marathon.
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>73 de John @ VOA / Delano
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>Come on John,, Marathon isn't a fair example since not other station is  
>afforded more than 50 kw. power.
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> 
>But how about erp from your curtain arrays there in Delano, CA??????   and 
>with 500 kW. of power to feed them.   Well it is AM isn't  it????
> 
>Dave Hultsman
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OK, y'all win.  MARTI isn't licensed by FCC..but by a different inept group.  I
kind wish we had 500 kW, but even at 250, it's a hell of a signal.  35 watts of
PSK31 into the rhombics works wonders on 20 meters also.

John
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