Re: Largest VTTC?

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

"Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

   > -------------------------------------------------
  >  > Mike Poulton
  >
  > OK and that approach makes sense.  If you can get or make a suitable
  > filament transformer then, to a large extent, in the LF service
  > considered here tubes are interchangeable, perhaps with a change in
  > feedback or bias.  I wonder if there are used "spares" kicking around
  > some of the local BC stations which might be liberated reasonably?
  >
  > Ed
  >

I would think that most of the AM stations running a couple or few
kilowatt
kinds of power have probably gone to solid state, although, you never
know.
I've got some friends at work who used to be station engineers and would
probably know."

	I'm sure you're right (at least for newer stations) and that, as a
result, there's a lot of old tube equipment floating around somewhere
with stuff which would be good for VTTC work.  One of my friends
recently bought a Gates 2 kW BC transmitter (used 833A's in the output)
for peanuts and converted it for AM use on the 160 meter band. Another
(over in Hawaii) bought a complete BC station including (350 ft) tower
which, at last report, was still lying on its side and probably destined
to lie there forever unless the junk man got it.  He too was going to
convert it for 160M work. There's stuff out there which is too old to be
useful and too new to be "collectible" and some digging around might
well find stuff at reasonable prices.

Ed