The featured Station of the Month for April is Hubbard Broadcasting’s WWFD (The Gamut) 820 AM. They broadcast to the sprawling and diverse Washington, D.C. market, which has a population of over 6 million people between D.C., Maryland and Virginia. WWFD is strikingly different from most AM stations for multiple reasons, one obvious reason being […]
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In May of 2019, we received the official order for a project in partnership with Loxley Public Company Ltd., a system integrator in Thailand, to design and manufacture a 3-tower, 400kW phasing and matching system for the Thailand Public Relations Department (PRD). This was a team effort of the Kintronic engineering and production staff and […]
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Our next Station of the Month is KLZ-AM, 560 kHz, another historic radio station, hence the three-letter call sign. KLZ is owned by Crawford Broadcasting and covers the Denver-Boulder-Longmont and Northern Colorado areas. It happens to have the lowest position on the dial, which means it is the first station that is heard when scanning […]
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We wrapped up the year 2019 with the completion of a new Medium Wave transmission site on the remote island of Thilafushi in the Republic of the Maldives under a contract with Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) Australia. Initially this looks like an ordinary tower site on a beach, but Thilafushi is actually a man-made island […]
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With the start of a new year and a new decade, we are excited to present a new feature on our website where we highlight a different AM radio station each month. It seemed appropriate that we kick off this feature with the station that pioneered the radio broadcast industry with the first commercial broadcast […]
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Kintronic Labs recently shipped a behemoth Low Frequency (LF) Loading Coil for the U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific. The sheer size of this LF coil is impressive in itself, at 12 and a half feet tall with a 60-inch internal diameter. There is also a 3-1/8” copper corona ring positioned on top […]
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Radio Stations KHKA 1500kHz and KLHT 1040kHz have a brand new transmitting site and diplexing equipment thanks to the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART). Since the old site was directly in the path of the new elevated rail system that has been under construction on Oahu for some time, HART was required to pay […]
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Kintronic Labs is dedicated to providing a high-quality product as well as high-quality customer service, and part of that is factory pre-tuning every system that leaves our facility. KTL recently provided an Antenna Tuning Unit for CBC’s CHAK-AM based in Inuvik, Northwestern Territories. It is installations like this one that remind us why the pre-tuning […]
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Kintronic President Tom King reviewing Kintronic Labs AM antenna system products and services with CBC engineers in Montreal, Quebec.
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Kintronic recently supplied a custom AM/Medium Wave Balun to KJNP-AM 1170 kHz, beaming from the arctic outpost of North Pole, Alaska. KJNP is in the process of replacing their 425′ tower, which has been in place since they began broadcasting 50 years ago. They will use this AM/Medium Wave Balun from Kintronic to broadcast from […]
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