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@richpowers Maybe the 50kW stations are not mentioned?1050 CHUM in Toronto was in it's heyday a 50,000 watt station along with all the big boomers at ...
This should answer Carl's question:
There used to be but I looked and can't find now. Used to be able to look up member and private message.
@richpowers Changed to Transmitter Talk for you.
@richpowers It doesn't work when I click play.
This is a bummer but usually electrolytic capacitors is to blame. They have a lifespan and a shorter one if gear sits unused for 25 years or it is hot...
@carl-blare This station I was talking about I know about the transmitter as I had called the station about another matter and got to talk to the engi...
I remember a station just east of Toronto(Oshawa) that I listened to that used to cut their power at night to less than half of the daytime and they j...
All Catalogues can be viewed here page by page from the 1940s
@richpowers That could be what I was thinking of. I remember Greymark and I think if searching back in radioshack's 1960s catalogues there is some AM ...
@rugster Yeah that could be it. Did Radioshack back in the early to mid sixties have anything like what I am thinking? Maybe they sold that Knight Bro...
@richpowers That one plus the 100 also says AM also. But I remember a simple one for around the house being your own little radio station. Early sixti...
Amazing History. Good find.Here's one by Heathkit that along with the DX 100 was an AM besides the ham band.But I remember a small one a kid could ha...
@richpowers I wonder what transmitter would have been available for part 15 in the 1930s and 40s?All I remember from my youth(50s 60s) was toy ones or...
