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KOTC - PROGRAM TEST AUTHORITY

It's on now. As expected, it simulcasts 95.3.

Signal in Germantown is not perfect. But that's not the point, of course. The station is only intended as a feed for a translator.

DE
 
KOTC was MIA a couple days last week. Over the weekend I found 830 with a dead carrier over night rather than turning the TX off.
 
Michael said:
KOTC was MIA a couple days last week. Over the weekend I found 830 with a dead carrier over night rather than turning the TX off.
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Oh who listens to AM anyway? Well the WCCO guys certainly do and they will get their butts!
 
KOTC filed for 8KW from the WLOK site.

Of course since the site is not big enough for the entire ground radial system. There is a notch to the NE toward Nashville. Of course this protects co-channel WQZQ.
 
Coverage map shows the nighttime interference-free contour goes about 3 blocks. A megaphone would work about as well. Or, paper airplanes made from sheet music.

At 2 Watts, they could run the transmitter on solar power -- you know, if it weren't at night.

DE
 
DeadElvis said:
Coverage map shows the nighttime interference-free contour goes about 3 blocks. A megaphone would work about as well. Or, paper airplanes made from sheet music.

At 2 Watts, they could run the transmitter on solar power -- you know, if it weren't at night.

DE
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There's a high band station in Greenwood that is authorized 2 watts at night. Hasn't run it in a while, but when it did I had the pleasure of trying to pick it up. It wasn't even quiet in the parking lot of the studio, with the tower behind the building. It was almost overwhelmed by noise about 300 feet away at the apartment complexes behind the station property.

I can't imagine how it could even be worth the trouble to radiate 2 watts at night.
 
Zack it used to be able to just about cover all of town but that was in the 80s and early 90s.

Used to start getting noisy when you got to the turn off at 82/49 heading toward Minter City. Transmitter was a about twice the size of a lunch box just screwed into the side of the wall.

You could actually hear the audio modulate from inside it. Coils perhaps? I forget who made those flea power transmitters. I bet JBOYD or another Engineer type can recall however.
 
DE they could run it off battery power for a long time and trickle charge from solar when needed. I might be able to hear it behind WCCO at my current home.
 
In the tube type am transmitters of the past, the modulation transformer and reactor would "sing" in time with the modulation. In the older 5KW transmitters, (And above) you could hear it clearly up to 25 feet! JBI
 
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