300-megawatt station planned for Mindanao
 

"Last week, a group of radio technicians and some volunteers from Barangay
Port Holland, a fishing village in Maluso predominantly inhabited by Muslim
Yakans and Tausugs, constructed a tower for the 300-megawatt community Peace
Radio."

http://www.mindanews.com/2004/10/04nws-maluso.html

(dxld)

300 Mw ?
The biggest AM station was 1 Million Watts (1 megawatt).

UHF TV stations are licensed up to about 3 Megawatts, but this is "beamed" by
concentrating the signal along the horizon. The actual transmitter is 100 KW or
so.

Shortwave broadcast stations have transmitters up to about 500 kW but antenna
gains of 20 dB or more can make it seem like several million watts if you're in
the target area.

But let's assume that since Mindanao has mostly AM receivers that the the 300
megawatt transmitter is non directional (no antenna gain), then it would need
to draw about 400 to 500 Megawatts of power from the power grid.
Enough to power a major city or two.
Will they be erecting two or three new nuclear power plants nearby to power it?

At 5 Billion dollars each, this seems very wasteful of scarce resources. So
it's a 10-15 Billion dollar project.

SOMEBODY must a have a really important message

Mike Terry schreef:

"Last week, a group of radio technicians and some volunteers from Barangay
Port Holland, a fishing village in Maluso predominantly inhabited by Muslim
Yakans and Tausugs, constructed a tower for the 300-megawatt community Peace
Radio."

http://www.mindanews.com/2004/10/04nws-maluso.html

(dxld)

300 MW??
For a comunity station?

With these oil/energy prices?
Good luck to the folks who live next to the TX site.

The most powerful station I know of is 2.5 MW (1386 Kaliningrad)
Even with a 10 dB gain you still need 30 MW.

On FM? useless, unless you use a multi KILOmeter high antenna.

I would not be surprised if this station is no more than 300 W; some
idiot inserted the "M".
ruud

"Mike Terry" wrote in message
...
"Last week, a group of radio technicians and some volunteers from Barangay
Port Holland, a fishing village in Maluso predominantly inhabited by
Muslim
Yakans and Tausugs, constructed a tower for the 300-megawatt community
Peace
Radio."

http://www.mindanews.com/2004/10/04nws-maluso.html

(dxld)


I bet either the staff copy editor or the author of the article, Malu C.
Manar is going to be called into the editors office... LOL I gather they
meant 30 kilowatts or something like that. Even 300 kilowatts is WAY out of
hand for a community station.

Michael

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:51:07 +0000 (UTC), "Mike Terry"
wrote:

"Last week, a group of radio technicians and some volunteers from Barangay
Port Holland, a fishing village in Maluso predominantly inhabited by Muslim
Yakans and Tausugs, constructed a tower for the 300-megawatt community Peace
Radio."

http://www.mindanews.com/2004/10/04nws-maluso.html

(dxld)

Based on several years experience living in the Philippines, I'll
guess that the station is 300 W. Filipino publications are pretty
casual about proofreading and most of the reporters aren't very
technically savvy. Maybe the author just wrote an article about a big
power plant, and couldn't get "Mega" out of his mind??

--

Dennis McCandless
Chicago

Was the author thinking about Indonesian head of state, Lady
Megawati when he wrote the article?

"Mike Terry" wrote in message
...
"Last week, a group of radio technicians and some volunteers from
Barangay
Port Holland, a fishing village in Maluso predominantly inhabited by
Muslim
Yakans and Tausugs, constructed a tower for the 300-megawatt community
Peace
Radio."

http://www.mindanews.com/2004/10/04nws-maluso.html

(dxld)

Don't tell me...I'll guess.....some USA based xian
fundie or pentacostal ministry is funding / building it ?

Just what we phucking need more of....

Radioman390 wrote:
The biggest AM station was 1 Million Watts (1 megawatt).

There are a handful of 2 megawatt AMs - at least one in Saudi Arabia.
(where I'd imagine the ground conductivity is horrendous so it still
doesn't "get out" all that wellgrin)

UHF TV stations are licensed up to about 3 Megawatts, but this is "beamed" by
concentrating the signal along the horizon. The actual transmitter is 100 KW or
so.

5 megawatts is the maximum legal power for analog TV in the U.S.. I'm
aware of transmitters available up to 220KW output.

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Well the Muslims from southern Mindanao are known for their lies.

lipay 'kaw karon?


On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:57:58 +0200, Ruud Poeze
wrote:

Mike Terry schreef:

"Last week, a group of radio technicians and some volunteers from Barangay
Port Holland, a fishing village in Maluso predominantly inhabited by Muslim
Yakans and Tausugs, constructed a tower for the 300-megawatt community Peace
Radio."

http://www.mindanews.com/2004/10/04nws-maluso.html

(dxld)

300 MW??
For a comunity station?

With these oil/energy prices?
Good luck to the folks who live next to the TX site.

The most powerful station I know of is 2.5 MW (1386 Kaliningrad)
Even with a 10 dB gain you still need 30 MW.

On FM? useless, unless you use a multi KILOmeter high antenna.

I would not be surprised if this station is no more than 300 W; some
idiot inserted the "M".
ruud

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:24:05 GMT, "Michael"
wrote:


"Mike Terry" wrote in message
...
"Last week, a group of radio technicians and some volunteers from Barangay
Port Holland, a fishing village in Maluso predominantly inhabited by
Muslim
Yakans and Tausugs, constructed a tower for the 300-megawatt community
Peace
Radio."

http://www.mindanews.com/2004/10/04nws-maluso.html

(dxld)


I bet either the staff copy editor or the author of the article, Malu C.
Manar is going to be called into the editors office... LOL I gather they
meant 30 kilowatts or something like that. Even 300 kilowatts is WAY out of
hand for a community station.

Michael



I'd guess 300 Watts is probably closer.