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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 8, 2015, at 5:58 AM, Randy Hall via QuadList <<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" class="">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Randy Hall <<a href="mailto:listk7age@gmail.com" class="">listk7age@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">January 8, 2015 at 5:57:22 AM PST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [QuadList] OT--What do Mason, OH and Lakihegy, Hungary have in common? BIG Diamonds!</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ted Langdell <<a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" class="">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>>, Quad List <<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" class="">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Ted<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the posting. Good info.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>The history of WLW's 500,000 watt modulator and amplifier is amazing. They drove it with the carrier their 50,000 transmitter. I recorded a tour there a couple years ago. Lots of good stuff in my video. There is also a second video which describes WLW's 50 KW transmitters, there are 4 transmitters still in the building.<br class=""><br class=""></div>Randy, K7AGE<br class=""><a href="http://youtu.be/CbHjcwIoTiY" class="">http://youtu.be/CbHjcwIoTiY</a> <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Ted Langdell via QuadList <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank" class="">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
<br class=""><br class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From: Ted Langdell <<a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" class="">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br class="">To: Quad List <<a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com" class="">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br class="">Cc: Ted Langdell <<a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" class="">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br class="">Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:13:58 -0800<br class="">Subject: OT--What do Mason, OH and Lakihegy, Hungary have in common? BIG Diamonds!<br class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">As in big, tall Blaw-Knox diamond shaped AM transmitting antennas.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mason, OH is home to the site of the only 500,000 watt US licensed AM broadcast station. Back then, it boomed across the "midwest," and its said you could hold neon light bulbs near the site and they'd glow without other connections.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now only 50KW, ND <a href="http://www.oldradio.com/archives/stations/cinc/wlwpix.htm" target="_blank" class=""><b class="">WLW (AM) 710</b></a>, Cincinnati's 747-foot tall <b class=""> </b><a href="http://hawkins.pair.com/blaw-knox.html" target="_blank" class=""><b class="">Blaw-Knox Tower</b></a> was getting new guy wires when I passed by in the late afternoon of Oct. 30, 2010 and shot a series of pictures.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Look to the left of the tower's lower section and you'll see the first replacement being hoisted.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Hungarian village of Lakihegy just south of Budapest is the home of another Blaw-Knox, a 1,031 footer erected in 1933, currently handling TWO stations with a combined power of 250KW.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This Blaw-Knox carries 150KW of AM RF for a station on 540 KHz, and 100KW for a station on 135.6 KHz.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Open transmission line is apparently used to get the 540KHz signal to the tower's antenna tuning unit at the base of the Blaw-Knox.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Take a look at pictures and details here: </div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div class=""><a href="http://www.waniewski.de/LW/Lakihegy/lakihegy_lw_1en.htm" target="_blank" class="">http://www.waniewski.de/LW/Lakihegy/lakihegy_lw_1en.htm</a></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The diplexing of 540 onto the tower the was done in 2006 by the folks running the website linked above.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What the 135.6Khz facility does will surprise you!</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakihegy_Tower" target="_blank" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakihegy_Tower</a></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the 1970's the coverage provided by the Lakihegy tower was deemed inadaquate (only half of Hungary) and construction began on another facility near Solt, about 50 miles south of Budapest.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Transmitter Solt" uses a conventional tower with three guy-wire levels that's 996 feet tall with 2 MW (that's right... MEGAwatts) of power, the most powerful AM medium wave facility in Europe, and one of the four most powerful MW facilities in the world.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_Solt" target="_blank" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_Solt</a></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Solt coverage map here: </div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div class=""><a href="http://nmhh.hu/dokumentum/1704/mr1_kossuth__kh_lefedettseg_nappal.jpg" target="_blank" class="">http://nmhh.hu/dokumentum/1704/mr1_kossuth__kh_lefedettseg_nappal.jpg</a></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Lakihegy 540KHz facility is apparently a backup for the Solt signal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We know you like 'em big, so we try to oblige.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ted</div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-size:14px" class=""><font size="3" class=""><span style="font-size:12px" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="font-size:14px" class=""><font size="3" class=""><span style="font-size:12px" class="">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div style="font-size:14px" class=""><span style="font-size:12px" class="">Secretary</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12px" class="">Quad Videotape Group</span></div><div style="font-size:14px" class=""><font size="3" class=""><span style="font-size:12px" class="">e-mail:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank" class="">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div>
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