[BC] Calling ALL AM Daytimers

[Harold Hallikainen]

>> What frequency was WNLC?
>> Why did they just turn it off?
>
> It was on 1510. The signal was beamed out to sea.
> Very little inland coverage. Interestingly they abandoned
> 1490 Class IV and opted for the 10kw. Big mistake!
> 10,000 watts looked nice on the letterhead, kept the
> power company happy but poor signal where it was
> needed.
>
> Permit me to relate a story. Any relation to present or
> past individuals or companies is purely coincidental. I
> was asked to inspect and prepare a quotation to rebuild
> an AM station with many towers and less than desirable
> coverage. The GM brought me to three of the ATU sheds.
> I saw car battery clamps on coils and knew this project
> would be expensive and time consuming. After looking up
> at the third rotatable sampling loop I went to pull down the
> thin cord hanging off of it.
>
> The GM told me to leave it alone. It was fishing cord they
> used to calibrate the antenna monitor. The engineer would
> crank the phasor until the monitor points were in limits
> then tug the cord until the antenna monitor read within limits!
> It was even nicer when the GM told me to check my pant legs.
> For ticks!
>
> I told the GM they would first need toroidal sampling transformers
> and sample line to all the towers. This was already about $8K
> without labor. The station elected not to upgrade the array....
>
> Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE


The first DA I worked at had a Nems Clarke antenna monitor and a bunch of
little pieces of RG8 with connectors. These would be inserted in the line
until the phase was right.

Harold

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