[BC] Day/night separated sites

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/21/2005 4:03:28 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
mikeholderfield at gmail.com writes:

I  wouldn't be surprised if Dave Hultsman was there 
> when the cement was  poured.
> 
> Paul
> 



Hey PAul  that was way back before I moved to this part of the  world.
 
  One of my engineers in Texas told me all about it, he interviewed  for a 
job there.  He also mentioned the swimming pool that was both indoor  and 
outdoor.   My first trip there was just a water cooling pond like  in Montgomery at 
WBAM and Birmingham at WVOK.
 
Tom Jones can give some great history.  Art Dellinger was CE when I  first 
visited there in 1977.   The protected 0.5 mv/m contour daytime  goes North of 
Myrtle Beach, SC. Art moved from North Caolina after Kaplan took  over.
 
Once in the late '70's they were getting complaint from regular listeners  in 
Savannah about popping and static on the air.  Art took his field set  and 
went up there to check out these numerous complaints.   When he  got there he 
was amazed at the strength of the signal and splattering.  He  drove inland and 
pin pointed it to a station in the low 600's  on the dial.  The station was 
overmodulating and splattering all the way to 690  kHz.  He called the station 
and discussed with the manager the problems,  who basically said he had no 
problems and tough luck,  with a  stations in Jacksonville having interference 
from his station in Savannah.
 
Art turned it over to Kaplan's lawyers who promptly filed a complaint with  
FCC about the interference to their protected 0.5 mV/m contour.  FCC  Atlanta 
made a visit to station,  found them using an FM Volumax 410  w/premphasis on 
the AM AMpliphase that was mistuned and overmodulating  substantially.
 
As I recall, and Paul or Jim Henry can probably correct me on this,   the 
transmitter was basically a 1 kW. transmitter driving a water cooled 6696 in  
linear mode driving two 55** water cooled tubes in a Doherity  configuration.   I 
was there one time and one of the finals was out of  service and Art had 
rebiased  the remaining stage to linear.  I asked  him what kind of power he was 
running and he said 41 kW.   It  still sounded great.
 
The Baldwin site had the old original 25 kW. from Orange Park backed down  to 
10 kW..  They later bought a Continental 316C, 10 kW. Screen Modulated  
linear using two 4CX10,000 tubes in parallel.  The I sold them a 316F two  tube 10 
kW. for the night site. I don't think they ever remote controlled  it till Jim 
Henry installed the 316F-1.
 
The Brennan/Benns Dynasty.   Bill Brennan in JAcksonville had his  own Lear 
Jet and was a pilot.  He suppossedly crashed it.  That is  when the station was 
sold to Kaplan.
 
Dave Hultsman