old 1,000,000 Watt (1MW) Transmitter

[RMoribayashi]

"Admiral" Sarnoff. Yeah, right. And I'm Captain Video.

[wb6vuy]

Why is the CW key disconnected?

[sdold]

@wb6vuy Good question. I wondered the same thing, probably just done that way for the movie. That's pretty much the same key I started with as a novice.

[NipkowDisk]

Thanks for posting this great clip about NLK! Many years ago I was driving up near Lake Riley and happened to catch a glimpse of the "big clothesline" antenna, it was WAY cool. I heard they also had to de-tune the fluorescent lights in nearby homes because they would pulse in unison with code, even when the lights were off!

[TheLCusi]

um... so they can communicate to the ships on the other side of the planet, but how would the ships message back without the 1MW transmitter? lol, pretty pointless if you ask me. it is basically a one way radio for everything that is out of range of the receivers radio.

[TheMilkywayboy]

Press on video => bend space and time

[G0IFI]

Great video!

The Old Radio Luxemburg transmitter on 1440 khz ran at 1.2 million watts.

Megawatt stations are common these days, especially on the Long Wave bands but for its day this one was the shiznits.

I can't remember what power the British "Aspidistra" transmitter ran at during ww2 but it was enough to create a signal strong enough in Germany to overpower the German ones and make fake announcements to the German public.

[fnordist]

@G0IFI

you know the propaganda in those days?

[xxXToushirouXxx]

lol i guess they had some fun with that radiation XD

[TheBastardG3]

fake and gay

[humxa24]

I didn't know there was youtube at that time :)

[JimHadar1]

The RF radiation put off by that rig must've been enormus! No need for a stove or hotplate to cook that lunch. Just put it on a lonnnnnnngggg pole and shove it over by the tower for a few. ;-)

[TheKomplexOfficial]

meanwhile in 2011...

[Spazzosity]

ill just use text messages thankyou. about a 40 dollar phone. not 14 million dollars lol

[MightyTabooTiki]

But will it blend?

[rs2wtf]

14million? what a waste!

[davedoggy]

must use one hell of a power supply..

[eldorado303]

i can only image the antenna for this sort of power. maybe its those towers seen in the end. cq?

[davev8app]

will it work on 27.555 mhz :)

[erod1944]

@davev8app Yes. I have one in my Kenworth Cabover and with the exception of melting a few tires, it works just fine.

[rweerakkody4565]

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[Mykola40]

youtube.com/watch?v=erHwMq3Y1w­k

FUNNY VIDEO! The cat Tim a.k.a. Red steals the radio components from the home lab. Of course, for the own secret project...

Кот Тим ака Рыжий из Киева регулярно тайно крадёт радиодетали из домашней лаборатории своих хозяев. Естественно - для его собственного секретного проекта! В этот раз его застукали...

[nrdesign1991]

there's a NASTY beep in the background!

[UmaBlinky]

Man that would make one hellofa liniker for a CB radidio!

[SSJIndy]

Wow, talk about going up to eleven!

[93radiopro]

screw the transmitter ...just give me the antenna system!

[HeadmasterFox]

Needless to say at 1,000,000 watts, you wouldn't see me within 5 miles of the place lol.

[supertramp42O]

Did someone take a shit in the last second of this?

[thecsslife]

Omg your are saying its a 1mw (1 milliwatt thats nothing)

[appleip]

@thecsslife 1mW is diffent then 1MW big M = mega little m = milli

[MrFabo85]

Was fürn scheiß

[cobrachoppergirl]

well, cool, it was the last word, so we didn't have to spend how many billions and billions more on crap for the NSA?

[Choice777]

fuck this ...where's my ipod ? :)))

[myguitardidyermom12]

i want this in my backyard....can you imagine the possibilities? I'm getting aroused just thinking about it.

[djmaxmv]

@myguitardidyermom12 the electric bill LOL

[corvairbus]

And he pushed Armstrong out of the window........

[tenn1983]

if i could get ahold of that just one word "freebird"

[yarahahrwe]

big deal my civic has a 3 superwatt tramsmitter on it

[SmashCOBamberg]

SURE make a video

[kapone2k]

lol 1Giga watt it is =P. or am i wrong allso =o

[jeroen3nl]

lets steal it and use it for pirate radio !

[abdelmoumen111]

lolz

[djmaxmv]

@jeroen3nl YEA!!

[GMSamuelRhine]

@jeroen3nl Hell yeah brother! i'd love to have one of these in a country where they would care or put it on a ship. you would be the most popular pirate in the world.

[paumo1996]

1MW one MilliWatt?:P

[MartinJWillett]

@paumo1996 mW is milliwatt (thousandth of a watt) MW is Mega watt (million Watts).

[paumo1996]

@MartinJWillett  hehe, I know, it was a joke;)

[Ezekielpurger]

1mw of speakers would kill you instantly!

I WANT IT!

[sandhgreen]

"General" David Sarnoff? NO. Just a peddler, that's all Sarnoff was.

By the way, Sarnoff didn't relay any messages from Titanic. He was in the building when messages were handled, but like the shyster, self-grandizing man he was, took all the credit for what OTHER PEOPLE DID.

[radiorob1]

Agreed.

I hate Sarnoff & RCA.

[readmedottext]

@sandhgreen

At first I thought they meant that Adm Carney relayed Titanic's CQD early in his career, then realized it was Sarnoff grandstanding.

[silverbird58]

Edwin Armstrong was top man for RCA sharp , real sharp.

[handsupbud]

Tesla was a pretty good rock band but they fizzled out.

[SonicArchives]

they were lame they did merit the name telsa

[imkoolkid]

ill give u 10 bucks for it lol jk i wish i had 1 million watts of power, ill cover the whole east cooast if not more

[Probewitch]

That is some cool historical footage for radio fans. Whatever became of that place? Maybe it still works; Cabot Tower in New Foundland does!

[andypandy202000]

how does the signal get to the other side of the earth? surely the whole planet will get in the way...

[steviebboy69]

it bounced of the ionosphere, an upper layer of the atmosphere. then reflects back down to earth then back up.

its called skip.

thats also why you hear local AM radio during the day and distant stations at night

[sandhgreen]

@steviebboy69

NO, not on those low frequencies. The signal stays along the Earth, and actually penetrates the ocean to about 100 feet.

What you describe as "skip" is how High Frequencies go long distances. The frequencies used at this transmitter are VLF... VERY LOW FREQUENCIES like 14 kilocycles.

[bratina501]

@sandhgreen Correct, this station runs the call letters NLK and operates on 24.8 KHz. Its up near Arlington Washington and is still on the air today relaying messages to mostly submerged submarines as VLF effectively penetrates the oceans.

[W6CSAhamradio]

@bratina501 This is still active and on the air? Wow I woulda thought they would have disassembled it after the cold war.

[bratina501]

@W6CSAhamradio Its still active this transmitter's signal is still reported all over the US and also in Europe and Asia as well.

[py2zx]

@bratina501 Do you know frequencies, modes, callsign? Thanks.

[kevinturvy]

@bratina501 Seriously.

May have a listen around

[mtbjunkie15]

@steviebboy69

the ionosphere is technically not a "part" of the atmosphere at all. rather a distance in the sky, where these charged particles intercept and react with one another. it is actually not very high. simply as high as these particles can travel.

[boxa888]

wow its evil how the pushed tesla out of history! its really sad, a "marconi operator" thats evil and wrong, marconi stole like 30 of teslas patent discriptions to make his devices. perfect example of censorship!! great video though!

[Kcy101]

thanx 4 the info, i didnt kno that,

[boxa888]

hey kcy i put up info on teslas wirless radio, internet and wireless industrial power transfer, theres more to radio than "radio". everyone look up wardenclyffe tower and then you know why they edited tesla from the history books and old media propaganda, its truely sad!

[Isochest]

What frequency or band was this transmitter on? Was it an LF or VLF installation?

[gmcjetpilot]

Both VLF & LF. Google Jim Creek Naval Radio Station. The 10 antennas are over a mile across two mountain tops on 200' towers 3000' above sea level and valley floor. The station is down below in the valley next to JIm Creek. The water is used to cool the transmitter. It's still in use. I suspect satellite communication is used more today, but the "Boomer" base (nuke subs) is nearby. Subs still use LF. This and the one in Maine are the two big LF Navy stations. Jim Creek is a well kept secret.

[k9rzz]

Wow ... so much power, they didn't even need wires on the telegraph key! LOL

[subbero]

Yes, thanks, didn't notice it first.

But now....thats really funny

[conrailcliff]

cool old RTTY machine

[sophiegromit]

Very nostalgic! If you're into 'Pirate Radio', you can hear a lot of stations broadcasting on, or around 6.925 or 6.955 MHz, usually on Upper Sideband (USB) on weekends! All you need is a decent shortwave reciever with a BFO (or USB, LSB), and a decent length of wire hooked up as an antenna. As an SWL, I find this very interesting.

[guitargdany007]

14 million dollars! what is that in todays money?

[Erzahler]

I don't know but I'll bet it would be close to half a billion dollars today if we still had to use that old technology! And to answer guimbadrivers comment, there are still a few 1 MW transmitters on the air today, although they are slowly being replaced by satellite networks.

[jollick]

four barrels of crude oil... maybe not today..

[guimbadriver]

in the 40s they can make a 1 MW radio transmitter???

[boxa888]

in the 10s tesla made alot more power than that! look up wardenclyffe tower guimbadriver. the tower was going to give industrial energy to the whole world and then niagra falls was going to give tesla even more energy to work with to make infinite energy on all points on this earth! its a sad history.

[Cringle84]

Hmm, yes and give us all cancer at the same time. You need RF energy and obscene amounts of it at the source coil to send electricity all around the world. tesla coils worked off resonance of the transmitter and receiver coils, much the same as how radio transmitters work

[boxa888]

YES BUT teslas is very safe because of resonant conditins and frequency. tesla would have saved us all an energy crisis 110 yrs ago! i already tested a small scale version of this tesla longitudinal waves system and it works quite well. teslas was safe, regular em waves are not.

[Cringle84]

The closest thing I could come up with to the tesla coil, is a crystal set, I remember tuning into 4CA in cairns, australia for the first time on my first crystal set in a shed, 4CA was 5000 watts, 8KM away, still not enough power to drive a speaker, I no doubt agree more power could be extracted from an antenna of correct 1/4, 1/2, or 5/8, wavelength, I am no mathematician but to send electricity from USA, to australia, you would need billions of watts to receive 0.000002 watt in Australia.

[boxa888]

STILL THAT IS NOT TRUE! teslas system does not follow your regular radio systems, its alot different. i just did a 20 ft true wireless test and this was less than a thousand volts being transported to the other coil this far away. so its obvious from my small test a wardenclyffe style tower would send industrial energy around the world instantly anywhere, add a few more to the wave complex and get even more industrial energy further sustaining the waves.

[Cringle84]

Okay, so how many watts are you putting in, in ratio of what you are getting out? if it is successful, do you have any scientific evidence?

[boxa888]

i just told you i tested a 20 ft transmission, just go to my youtube account, if i increase some portions and also some resonant conditions then i will be even more efficient, teslas system is different, thats why they dont teach it in school .

[CampKohler]

When was it filmed?

[steviebboy69]

i think it was in the early late 40's ish?

not really sure on this one

[ironjob]

Just read on a website that it was built in 1953.

[W6CSAhamradio]

@steviebboy69 Popular Science has an article showing construction underway in April 1950. Hope this helps on dating this video.

[321ArmanD123]

wow