Does anyone know what level of power XERB or XEAK ran in the late fifties?
Dated a gal in that era whose parents had a *large* Telefunken table top radio
that we used to listen too here in the Sacramento area. Was a thrill to hear
stations from south of the border, Clint Texas, XERF and such. Want to recall I
had heard power levels were in the 100 kw but am not sure. Phillips
transmitters were supposed to have been the rf generating device of choice.
The WLW pix with that Continental Electronics logotype on the left front makes
the mental hairs on the back of my brain stand up, it does
Those were the fun days.
73,
Gary... wa6fgi
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Clements
To: craxd1@ezwv.com ; amps@contesting.com
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Standby tubes (was: Even more power solid-state amp's)
Everytime I ever remembered WLW it reminded me of the old TV commercial,
"When EF Hutton talks, everybody listens"! I dont recon nothing has ever
been built to top it as that amount of power was found to just be too much,
hi hi. One thing though, the tower was close to the building and I wonder
what type of RF radiation those folks were exposed to?
One that comes close, or might even have beat WLW was XERF in Del Rio Texas
with transmitter in Via Cunya Mexico. I have read tales from the guys that
built/ran the station, but I don't remember the details and the power
output. The signal was awesome, all over North America.
(((73)))
Phil, K5PC
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