I tell ya Nate, Working at this board taught me the feel of REAL Radio!
Big stations used RCA Equipment. Transmitters, consoles, turntables like these:
and these:
RCA also made 16 inch transcription turntables that took half a turn to start up:
But ya know, for Part 15? C'mon! You KNOW you'd love this!
Or this?
Rebuilt? But then...realistically...audio-wise this blows 'em all away:
And I love it! But I still would love to have a big Gates board like this:
Doug
The Gates "Yard", Wolfman Jack turntables, big beautiful stuff from when radio was flush with money and studios could be like showcases, even at smaller AMs!
I can imagine a scenario where I'd have all that stuff in a basement, and show visitors (because I'd be proud and want to show everybody) my system. Where's the transmitter? I'd point to a square card table in the corner with my Ramsey AM transmitter kit on it.
Maybe you could take one of those smaller transmitters and put it in a rack case and add lights, and then into the rack where it would at least look more impressive next to the big equipment. Kind of like taking the short, small emporer and putting them on stilts and stuffed robes.
All I can say is that radio is so far away from a place that uses equipment like you posted, and that's sad, even if it's true. Radio stations today look like office space, or a hotel meeting room with monitors on the wall, the console is on one table with a riser in the back and 3-4 screens.
If you want to see a classic small studio, look up the episode of Night Gallery The Flipside Of Satan with Arte Johnson as new DJ hire going into a 5000 watt station all alone to do a show.
Ha! Yeah! Those were made by Collins:
The QRK was similar:
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Those were the first turntables I ever ran on air.
Doug
This kid is having fun cueing on the big Gates...look at that BOARD! LOL!
Doug
Ever seen this LPB? I would LOVE one of these! GAHHH!
Doug
LOL!!! That's what we used in the newsroom at WKXL (Concord, NH) back in the '70s!!
Prior to that, it was used as an FM production/air board (our FM was mono for its first 4 years of operation!!)....
Built like a tank....and not (too) prone to RF interferance (it was about 6' from a 1kw Gates BC-1T....and, later, a Harris MW-1A.....
"LOL!!! That's what we used in the newsroom at WKXL (Concord, NH) back in the '70s!!"
I bet they still have it! Nobody wants to sell these things...and when they do...SPENDY! Damn, I want that thing...
Doug
Thats the exact board I have on order, it was either that or the 8 channel version. I think I spent $50 for it.
"Thats the exact board I have on order, it was either that or the 8 channel version. I think I spent $50 for it."
Now you're breakin' my heart, Mighty! Damn it. I look for deals like that...You must LOVE it!
Doug
And even come get it!!! That is nice. I like that old style board. I remember seeing them many years ago at a couple of stations in Wichita Falls..
Not sure if this is the board we had at KISS 94 FM in Ellsworth or not.
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Might have been an eight. Mark O. bought two of them. They smelled like new cars! And SO-O-O nice! I have run MANY different boards. Those LPBs were unmatched to this day!
Doug
Those are nice.. and what I remember seeing as a "board".
Perhaps I will have one someday!