SBE 16 Annual Picnic & Transmitter Tour

[@SergioGF-jb1bd]

a big greeting to all the engineers I send you a cordial greeting and from Miami.

[@voiceofjeff]

Great tour of a wonderful AM transmitter site. I managed a 5kW site (2 tower day, 4 tower nite; different day and nite patterns) and they had a similar Art Deco transmitter building complete with basement. Unfortunately, the many previous owners had never put any real maintenance or upkeep to the place and it looked like the apartment area of this site. I tried to clean it up, but it was just too much.

[@stevenherd9799]

The old equipment with the tubes was just too cool

[@troyshannon644]

this is so wholesome..

[@timothystockman7533]

Wow! A Sparta AS30, the original model with the pushbutton rotary input selector on Channel 5. I not only worked at a station with one of these, but my HS station had an A15, which also had that selector!

[@kermets]

Great video thanks heaps from New Zealand, Brett

[@maryrafuse2297]

The old transmitters contrast with the Nautel which is so futuristic. Interesting tour seeing the old and new together under one roof. I still marvel at the efficiency and low operational cost of the Nautel.

[@korymichaels6217]

Oooh! I want that 5-channel Sparta Mixer!!!

[@minibikemadman]

i need to get one of those optimods...I've seen them on ebay.

[@cossa6296]

I am looking at photos of the KIRO transmitter plant taken October 2021. There appears to be rectangular panels mounted at roughly one third height on the antennas. Curious to know the function of those panels.

[@James_Bowie]

SBE = Society of Broadcast Engineers

[@techguy9023]

Some really big iron. No Gates yard board?

[@larrybate1878]

Bun

[@akdenyer]

What is the music at the beginning of the video?

[@korymichaels6217]

Those old, room-size tube transmitters are a cool relic but not very economical. Poor efficiency (maybe 60% vs 88% on today's solid state AM transmitters), lots of internal noise, costly to maintain, takes up a lot of space.

[@akdenyer]

What was the music?

[@sonus289]

really need to get rid of iboc am