Monday, February 18, 2008

Power for the Tower

Here's a news item I found on the web awhile back, about CKLW's old Gates MW50 Transmitter. The story here is that back in 2004, CKLW replaced it, and the one they replaced was subsequently bought by WQTH, AM 720 out of Hanover New Hampshire which was just coming online. You can read the whole story here.

I'm pretty sure that this transmitter isn't the same one that powered CKLW back in the "Golden Years" (No Jay, not a reference to you) but rather it is probably the one that replaced it. Which begs the question, whatever happened to that one? I'll have to do some digging and see if anybody knows the story. Maybe Jay (Golden) knows.

Stay tuned.

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Jim Davis said...

The "famous" CKLW transmitter was an early vintage RCA BTA-50F. It was a plate modulated transmitter with a separate room for the modulation transformer. It was all that "iron" that gave CKLW the big bass bottom end. The audio chain consisted of a CBS audimax and volumax with a telco equalizer boosting the midrange at about 5kHZ. Simple and clean.
Regards;
Big Jim Edwards CKLW circa 67-70
(Jim Davis)

February 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM

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