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wFrom: Garry Brill
wtDate: February 4, 2103
Subject: Look Familiar? There were only a few people who could operate and program it...Ron Smith and myself...I didn't know of any others.
GarryB
wFrom: John Thomas
wtDate: February 3, 2013
Subject: White Xmas - Resend
Thanks for the feedback. I do remember the Gates programmer, it was in the studio building. It had a large round, I'll call it, turntable that held the CARTS. I bet the transmitter was actually a 10KW with a 10x gain due to the antenna. BTW the TV xmitter was 25KW push pull output RCA. I think the 'effective radiated' power was around 300KW. Just more tech numbers... I think we were running 50KW AM. I never saw that transmitter. I do remember bringing up the little 50W AM transmitter every month while we did PM's on the FM xmitter. As you probably know the AM content was sent from the studio via the FM subcarrier to the AM xmitter site. There might have been a landline backup that I was not aware of.
John
wFrom: Forrest Brandt
wtDate: February 4, 2013
Subject: Look Familiar?
During my weekly visits to Saigon I saw the Gates sitting in the lobby, waiting for the technicians to put it together, from December of 68 until sometime in May. I kept wondering when they were going to put it to use.
wFrom: Rick Fredericksen
wtDate: Februray 3, 2013
Subject: Look Familiar?
wFrom: John Thomas
wtDate: February 3, 2013
Subject: White Xmas
I was reading the account by Chuck Neil and got to wondering. There was mention of operating on just FM at 100 thousand watts. Now you have to forgive me, I am a tech weenie. What did they do, put in a larger transmitter? Where was this located at, the old studio/transmitter site? I am just curious, I remember the 10KW Gates FM that I had in 71.
wFrom: John Thomas
wtDate: February 3, 213
Subject: White Xmas - Resend
Maybe I have it wrong. Was the FM transmitter a 100 KW? I could have sworn it was only a 10KW. Oh well, it really doesn't matter.
wFrom: Forrest Brandt
wtDate: February 4, 2013
Subject: Look Familiar?
During my weekly visits to Saigon I saw the Gates sitting in the lobby, waiting for the technicians to put it together, from December of 68 until sometime in May. I kept wondering when they were going to put it to use.
Gates (FM) Transmitter in Saigon
February 2013