A few AM station owners have turned their licenses back into the FCC, giving up on their AM radio business. Many other AM station owners, however, are looking for ways to profit from their AM transmitter site property, or to reduce transmission site costs. Co-locating with land mobile and cellular towers using an inexpensive slant-wire feed for the AM station may be a solution for some AM station owners. There are other financial mitigations as well. Benjamin Dawson and Stephen Lockwood from Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers join us to discuss the possibilities.
Show notes:
- “Collocating AM Transmitter Facilities With Cellular Monopole Towers“ – Radio World
- “Optimization of Shared-Frequency AM Antenna Systems Using Synergistic Filter Design” – Ronald D. Rackley, PE
- Deferred Maintenance and Its Effects on Future Costs – Ben Dawson
- Revisiting Medium Wave Ground System Requirements – Ben Dawson & Stephen Lockwood
- We talked about Maxwell’s equations (from Wikipedia)
- Crane Arc from AM Station RF (video clip)
Guests
Benjamin F. Dawson, III, PE – Consulting Engineer, Hatfield & Dawson
Stephen S. Lockwood, PE – President/Senior Electrical Engineer, Hatfield & Dawson
Host
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting
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