It is not every day that we get to work in our back yard but earlier this year we had that opportunity as we completed a diplexing system for our friends at WMTN 1300 and WCRK 1150, located in the Morristown, TN area. Both stations have a long standing history, with WMTN’s original FCC engineering […]
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There are a few different ways to set the ball gap spacing of your arc gaps, depending on whether you know your tower’s base voltage or not. If you do not know the exact tower base voltage for your station, the easiest method to calibrate your ball gap is to experimentally find the arc threshold […]
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Last year, we had the privilege of working with Walnut Media USA in Omaha, Nebraska to design and manufacture the antenna tuning units and filters to diplex station KIBM 1490kHz on station KCRO 660kHz, both 1 kW. All of the equipment was mounted in unpainted aluminum enclosures with support stands. The equipment included shunt filters […]
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During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, we shipped the AM matching and filtering equipment to diplex Nebraska Rural Radio station KUVR/1380kHz onto sister station KRVN/880kHz. Existing station KRVN is a 50kW station operates non-directionally during the day and directionally at night with a four tower in-line array. KUVR is a low-power, non-directional station, operating […]
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In September of this year the new broadcast operation of the Sher E Punjab Media AM radio station was launched as a result of new phasing, matching and filtering equipment designed and supplied by Kintronic Labs and installed by GS Broadcast Technical Services that was utilized to facilitate the co-location of the Sher E Punjab […]
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Our next Station of the Month, KICY AM, is in the farthest Western region of our country, literally at the edge of the world, in Nome, Alaska. Being situated at the northwestern tip of the continent, in a region only accessible by air most of the year, presents some unusual challenges for operating a radio […]
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How much difference can an ATU upgrade make for a station’s performance? A LOT, when you look at this case in point, WPLI-AM in Lynchburg, VA. Owned by Mel Wheeler, Inc., WPLI was in desperate need of a replacement for their old Raytheon ATU (that information alone says how old it is). For some background, […]
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Our next Station of the Month is one that is very near and dear to our hearts here at Kintronic, because it happens to be right here in Bristol, Tennessee and celebrates the rich music roots of the Appalachian region that we call home. WBCM Radio Bristol is as much a community radio station as […]
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