[BC] Re: bta-250m

[Steve]

I KNEW there was something I forgot to take from KFRC! <LOL>

Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Kline" <akline at netins.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Re: bta-250m


> ------ At 02:57 AM 6/3/2006 EDT, The Most Honourable KC4QLP at aol.com 
> wrote: -------
>>The cost to replace one of them things ...ouch! .....get one built, new 
>>for
>>your rig and the transformer will be worth more than the old transmitter
>>itself!
>
> KRNT Des Moines, last I heard, still had a RCA BTA-5F (I think it was an 
> F)
> in its great, Art Deco TX building.  Operable, except for the mod 
> transformer,
> which was destroyed when the great flood of '93 filled the basement.
>
> Sounds like it would be way too expensive to get that great rig back on 
> air.
> (BTW--anyone know where I could find a manual, just for fun? Paper or 
> PDF?)
>
> ak