{"id":1196,"date":"2010-07-31T11:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-07-09T16:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:47:42","slug":"rca-btf-20e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2010\/07\/rca-btf-20e\/","title":{"rendered":"RCA BTF-20E"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Does anyone need any parts for one? Long-time reader and commenter John has one that looks to be in good shape that he is willing to part with or part out. \u00a0I had three of these units in Harrisburg and my recollection is they were pretty solid units. \u00a0When tuned properly, they were low noise and sounded good on the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one issue I had was with the small 100 pf pass-through\/by-pass capacitors in the IPA. \u00a0Several went bad and were no longer functioning as bypass caps. \u00a0The result was the transmitter would self-oscillate. \u00a0I think there were seven or eight of them and I replaced them all at once. \u00a0The exact model of that particular transmitter was a BTF-20ES1, which was one of the last FM transmitters off of the factory floor before the broadcast division went under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Late model RCA BTF-20E FM transmitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

John says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If anyone needs parts out there, I will probably cannibalize this unit as I have just too many. The separate power supply is inside the garage along with the latest version of the harmonic filter entirely made of copper.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know if the entire unit actually runs or if it is parts only. \u00a0It certainly looks like a clean unit. \u00a0As I recall, Comark bought out all the RCA broadcast parts and service. Comark was then sold to Thomcast, which was sold to Thales which I think spun off its transmitter division to Grass Valley Group. \u00a0Grass Valley started by making TV master control switchers, routers, and other video equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, if you are looking for RCA parts for FM transmitters, contact me, and I’ll put you in touch with John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does anyone need any parts for one? Long-time reader and commenter John has one that looks to be in good shape that he is willing to part with or part out. \u00a0I had three of these units in Harrisburg and my recollection is they were pretty solid units. \u00a0When tuned properly, they were low noise … Continue reading RCA BTF-20E<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-fm-transmitters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12214,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/12214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}