[BC] WPGC/WHFS/WNEW

[Milton Holladay]

Chip is correct that it was WEAM rather than WPGC. Gary Hess, who worked 
there, told me at that time about the RCA  BTA-5U at WEAM and the 
supermodulation. (The BTA-5U used pair or 3CX3000s and a 5762 just like the 
BTA 5T, IIRC, and was only physically different.)
(I was thinking it was a BTA-10U, but if you were 
there......................)
M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Broadcast List USER" <Broadcast at fetrow.org>
>>From: Dave Hultsman <DHults1043 at aol.com>
>>
>>I remember that RCA AM  10 kW.   was the loudest thing on the dial. I had 
>>an RCA 5kW. similiar version less the second PA tube but never could get 
>>it to modulate like WPGC,
[snip]
> I believe the transmitter you may remember is the RCA at WEAM, in
> Falls Church, Virginia.  It was pretty much the same transmitter, but
> a 5 kW PA with a 10 kW modulator.  It would modulate well in excess of
> 200% positive, and was loud as heck until the FCC rewrote the rules,
> limiting the positive peaks to 125%.