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Re: AM bandwidth, the rest of the story :=)

Posted by N2EY on Jan 15, 2008; 11:54pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/New-K3-SN-207-built-but-question-on-AM-Filter-tp458592p458613.html

In a message dated 1/15/08 3:18:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [hidden email]
writes:


> 500kW? I assume that must be a typo. AFAIK, the limit on the AM BCB is 50kW
> in
> Canada and the US.
>

There was one 500 kW AM BC station in the USA, however. IIRC, it was WLW, and
it ran that power level in the 1930s. Special experimental permit or some
such. WW2 caused reduction to 50 kW - I don't know if WLW was allowed to increase
power after the war.

Google "WLW" for history, pictures, etc.

73 de Jim, N2EY


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