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9330 SuperPower Now On The Air

tomservo said:
Actually, I think that Ampegnon (sp?) antenna is not too uncommon, and there are still a few 500 kW transmitters using them kicking around. France's Issoudun facility comes to mind. They have an entire array of the things. They're even visible on Google Street View: https://goo.gl/maps/3xHLPrYyV46wPHRY7

Nauen Germany has one or two, also. WBCQ's is the only one in North America.

There's another big facility that has a couple, but I'm drawing a blank as to who it is. Either the Cerrik site in Albania or possibly Radio Taiwan outside of Taipei.
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I think it's Cerrik. I've never heard of Radio Yaiwan International having any super big super special site.
 
tomservo said:
Actually, I think that Ampegnon (sp?) antenna is not too uncommon, and there are still a few 500 kW transmitters using them kicking around. France's Issoudun facility comes to mind. They have an entire array of the things. They're even visible on Google Street View: https://goo.gl/maps/3xHLPrYyV46wPHRY7

Nauen Germany has one or two, also. WBCQ's is the only one in North America.

There's another big facility that has a couple, but I'm drawing a blank as to who it is. Either the Cerrik site in Albania or possibly Radio Taiwan outside of Taipei.
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There would be a level of manufacturer support that comes with the purchases, and hopefully they would have known issues covered. But there arel not hundreds of these antennas out there, to provide a full sampling of possible problems. There are not exactly a large number of techs at WBCQ, either. Their web site has photos of the installation during the past winter. I don't think I would be certain that nothing was missed....

http://www.wbcq.com/

On another note, it is good to see that RFI doesn't have a problem keeping their site up-to-date.
 
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