{"id":4912,"date":"2012-04-24T15:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2023-04-29T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T12:57:43","slug":"back-when-transmitters-used-to-look-like-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/back-when-transmitters-used-to-look-like-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Back when transmitters used to look like something"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Other than a humming box, that is.\u00a0 RCA broadcast, prior to the period in the seventies just before they went out of business, made some good-looking transmitters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"RCA<\/a>
RCA BTA-10U AM transmitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Art Deco design was favored for a number of years, especially with the AM units:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"RCA<\/a>
RCA BTA-1AR transmitter, circa 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of these RCA transmitters are still in service as backups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GE made the BT-25A, which was a 50 KW transmitter in Syracuse, NY for a few years. These units were very similar to the RCA BTA-50 transmitters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"GE<\/a>
GE BT-25-A looking from the control cabinet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gates of Parker Gates, pre-Harris, also made some classic transmitters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gates<\/a>
Gates BC1J AM transmitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I remember the BC5P had a similar look, with more transmitter cabinets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bauer<\/a>
Bauer FB5000J AM transmitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fritz Bauer made a very solid AM transmitter.  Good looking, too.  We need more pictures of old transmitters and other hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Other than a humming box, that is.\u00a0 RCA broadcast, prior to the period in the seventies just before they went out of business, made some good-looking transmitters: The Art Deco design was favored for a number of years, especially with the AM units: Some of these RCA transmitters are still in service as backups. GE … Continue reading Back when transmitters used to look like something<\/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":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-am-transmitters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","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=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11614,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions\/11614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}