[BC] MORE WESTINGHOUSE 50 HG

[nakayle at gmail.com]

Having worked at a station that had a 50HG I can assure you that it
was a self-contained transmitter complete with exciter and driver.
Westinghouse did make a 5-kw version with similar styling but it
wasn't meant to work with the 50HG.

- Nat Kayle


On Jan 8, 2008 9:35 PM, Tom <Radiofreetom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't know about this specific unit, but the Big One - "RCA 1", the 500
> kw rig at WLW, used the W-E transmitter as RF drive; it was plate
> modulated, as well.  So being plate modulated would not be a bar to
> using a full-up lower-powered transmitter as the RF driver stage for a
> high powered Tx.
>
> Tom S.
>
>
> PeterH5322 wrote:
> >> WAS IT DRIVEN BY 5 KW UNIT LIKE GE, RCA AND WESTERN ELECTRIC?
> >>
> >
> > Likely not.
> >
> > The RCA 50F (ca. 1947) was high-level plate modulated, as was the GE 50,
> > and WOWO's Westinghouse 50 was amongst the last installed of its type.
> > Probably KEX's 50, too.
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