On Mar 3, 5:51 am, dave wrote:
SWLer wrote:

50 CYCLE POWER
(It's reported that as late as 1949, the
power being supplied to Mt. Wilson was 50 cycle and early
television transmitter installations there depended on
rotary converters for 60 cycle power.)

You don't use a rotary coverter to go from 50 Hz to 60 Hz (that usually
doesn't require anything except derating a componet's VA capacity spec.
A rotary converter is for getting polyphase out of a one phase feed.

- As far as using a half million Watts to serve a hundred
- Thai SWLs, give me a break. They have computers;
- if they want Yankee propaganda it is readily available.

Dave - NOT !

The Rich and may be the Upper Middle Class people
in Thailand and other Third World Countries of the
World must likely do have Home Personal Computers
or Office PCs. But the vast majority of the Popluations
of these Third World Nations have a AM/FM Shortwave
Radio as their 'Connection to their Nation's Capital and
Window on the World.

ABOUT - Thailand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/th.html
Population : 65 Million People
Average Age : 32 Years
GDP-per-Capida : $8000 Average {$5325 Medium}
HH Income Top 10% = 33.4% GDP
Gini Coefficient : 42 (Medium)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
HDI # : 0.781 (Medium)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

Thailand Computer Access -versus- Radio and TV :
Internet Users : 8.5 Million {Only 13%}
Television Broadcast Stations # 111 ~ One per 600K
Radio Broadcast Stations :
AM # 238 ~ One per 273K People
FM # 351 ~ One per 185K People
Shortwave 6 # ~ One per 1.1M People

Today in Thailand the average Citizen still
watches TV and Listens to the Radio.

For Internet World Stats - Usage and Polpulation Statistics
Penetration of the Internet as a "%" of the Population.
The World-Wide Internet Big Picture {~20%}
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Internet Usage in Asia {~13.7%}
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm
Thailand {~13%} is not in the Top Ten for Asia.

around the world radio it's there - if you just listen ~ RHF