AM in Amateur Radio

[sirwitchback]

I have 12 of these in the craw space of my home.

[BudWiser999]

I wonder what station this is????

[THEBEASTOFOLD]

What would be the output of something like this?

[NTSC1080]

These were marketed to stations that were licensed for 1,000 watts, and typically also had a "nighttime" or pre-sunrise power authorization of 250 or 500 watts. There is a power reduction setting and circuitry to accomplish this. A very similar model is the BC-500, which has only a single 833A in the fnal.

[uploadJ]

That rescued transmitter looks an awful lot like a Gates BC-1G (or is it a T)?

[NTSC1080]

Its a "Big G" as Gates called it. The older "T" had the triangular viewing window, and the newer "H" had a rectangular viewing window across the door. The 833A were arrayed left to right in the "H," a configuration seen in the 1950s "J" model and older.

[contrapezist]

Ahhh ye ol 1G I had care of a 1T in my early engineering days (early 90's) Its still on the air as a daytimer.

Yep yep hauled many a transmitter in the family truckster.

[Navships]

It fit like a glove in that van,Fantastic. Good luck with it!

[Ke5njd]

we ahve som old transmitters that ill part out and salvig it

[chrisw71]

Great video. I think my back started to ache watching those guys haul around all that iron.

[Organgrinder010]

Very lucky! That is an impressive machine.

[MarksCoffeehouse]

Men of iron!

73, Mark

WA5VQM

[VO1GXG]

im in the process of working out a deal with CHVO on their old AM transmitter. they switched to FM a few weeks ago.