{"id":177,"date":"2009-08-03T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-07-09T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T12:33:10","slug":"am-transmitter-preferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/am-transmitter-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"AM transmitter preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Engineers are funny.\u00a0 We all have our likes and dislikes and our reasons for both.\u00a0 I don’t really like Harris products.\u00a0 Even when I was in the military, their stuff seemed a little “light.”\u00a0 I suppose having to deal with an MW-50B transmitter at my first full-time chief engineer gig didn’t help that impression.\u00a0 The MW-50 would “blow up” every six months or so.\u00a0 I say blow up because that is the only way I can describe it, no overload lights or any other indication of trouble until the blue lightning flashes and thunder from the PA section.\u00a0 What a POS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Harris transmitters, such as the SUX-1, FM20H, Gates-1 etc have also left me less than impressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order of preference, my choice of AM transmitters would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Any Nautel solid-state unit.\u00a0 Nautel makes good equipment that is well-supported.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Any BE solid-state transmitters.\u00a0 I favor the A model over the E model, but both are good.\u00a0 One condition, they must absolutely be well grounded and all of the toroid filters provided by the manufacturer must be used when installing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Any tube-type Continental transmitter.\u00a0 There are older units, I believe 816R but they work well and sound good on the air.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Really, that is about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Engineers are funny.\u00a0 We all have our likes and dislikes and our reasons for both.\u00a0 I don’t really like Harris products.\u00a0 Even when I was in the military, their stuff seemed a little “light.”\u00a0 I suppose having to deal with an MW-50B transmitter at my first full-time chief engineer gig didn’t help that impression.\u00a0 The … Continue reading AM transmitter preferences<\/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":[32],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-am-transmitters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12089,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/12089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}