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David Eduardo wrote:

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David Frackelton Gleason, still posing as 'Eduardo', tried really,
really
hard
when he wrote:

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"ve3..." wrote:

CFRX 6070 khz uses a Harris !kw transmitter to relay the programs
of
CFRB Toronto 1010 khz.

The website given below states that they use an Elcom-Bauer 701B-HF
transmitter.

Most of the Bauers were kits, built on site by the station engineer.
This
would indicate the transmitter is around 35 years old, and probably
failing.

Well, the article states that the transmitter was installed in 1983...

Probably used, then.

Wrong! They purchased it new.

It's still really old, which was my point. Bauer did not sell many
transmitters in that era. The 701B was a derivative of a "quick and dirty"
model they built to fill the need of about 1,000 class IV stations for new
transmitters when the FCC authorized 1 kw for them. I think they sold
something like 300 at the time, which was quite amazing. The 701B was simply
an old-technology high-level plate modulated transmitter using, if I recall,
glass envelope tubes... maybe the 4-500A.