[QuadList] OT--What do Mason, OH and Lakihegy, Hungary have in common? BIG Diamonds!

[Randy Hall]

Ted

Thanks for the posting. Good info.

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.

Randy, K7AGE
http://youtu.be/CbHjcwIoTiY

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Ted Langdell via QuadList <
quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com> wrote:

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> Subject: OT--What do Mason, OH and Lakihegy, Hungary have in common? BIG
> Diamonds!
> As in big, tall Blaw-Knox diamond shaped AM transmitting antennas.
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> 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.
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> Now only 50KW, ND *WLW (AM) 710*
> <http://www.oldradio.com/archives/stations/cinc/wlwpix.htm>, Cincinnati's
> 747-foot tall  *Blaw-Knox Tower* <http://hawkins.pair.com/blaw-knox.html> was
> getting new guy wires when I passed by in the late afternoon of Oct. 30,
> 2010 and shot a series of pictures.
>
> Look to the left of the tower's lower section and you'll see the first
> replacement being hoisted.
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> 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.
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> This Blaw-Knox carries 150KW of AM RF for a station on 540 KHz, and 100KW
> for a station on 135.6 KHz.
>
> 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.
>
> Take a look at pictures and details here:
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> http://www.waniewski.de/LW/Lakihegy/lakihegy_lw_1en.htm
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> The diplexing of 540 onto the tower the was done in 2006 by the folks
> running the website linked above.
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> What the 135.6Khz facility does will surprise you!
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakihegy_Tower
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> 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.
>
> "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.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_Solt
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> Solt coverage map here:
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> http://nmhh.hu/dokumentum/1704/mr1_kossuth__kh_lefedettseg_nappal.jpg
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> The Lakihegy 540KHz facility is apparently a backup for the Solt signal.
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> We know you like 'em big, so we try to oblige.
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> Ted
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