With the official closing of the FCC Spectrum Auction, many businesses are anticipating a flurry of action as TV stations must find new real estate for their antennas and associated equipment to get their stations back on air ASAP. KTL is pleased to announce two recently developed products that enable LPTV antennas to be installed […]
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Real AM Revitalization was the subject of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers’ (AFCCE) presentation by AFCCE President Bob Weller, PE, together with Tom King; Don Everist, PE, President of Cohen Dippell & Everist Consulting Engineers; and Jonathan Edwards, PE, Principal Engineer with Cityscape Consultants to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. The title of the […]
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Following a week of waiting for our equipment to clear customs, everything at the Voice of Hope Israel transmission site was in place and ready for the ATU’s and AM triplex gear to be moved into position at the base of the tower. The shipment was finally delivered on a Thursday morning, and after a […]
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You are looking at the world’s first dual digital SDR* radio-Android tablet device from PantronX, Inc., combining a quad-core ARM A53 processor, a built-in RF tuner, and demodulation software for AM, FM, and Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) AM and Short Wave. Bonus features include WiFi/bluetooth to facilitate running any Android app, such as web browsers, […]
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This brand spankin’ new concrete pre-fab transmitter building supplied by Kintronic Labs, soon to be installed with a custom KTL DA phasing system and two Nautel NX10 transmitters, will be the new home of WMAL’s 10/2.7 KW DA-1 operation on 630 Khz. Stay tuned for further developments on this Cumulus Media AM station move.
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KTL’s climate-controlled weatherproof cabinet is a convenient and proven way to securely locate your FM translator equipment near the base of the AM tower without worrying about the effects of weather conditions. Crawford Broadcasting Company’s Director of Engineering Cris Alexander provided a testimony on his experience with our cabinets: “As Crawford Broadcasting Company began planning for […]
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A recent study was conducted for Radio Pulpit by Broadcom International and Sentech Ltd., involving a Kinstar antenna installed by Communications Technology Broadcast Ltd. in South Africa that was fed by an Ampegon 10 kW DRM30 transmitter operating on 1440 kHz. The results of the field measurements reveal that the wide bandwidth, high-efficiency characteristics of […]
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This custom metal cabinet was supplied to the University of Tennessee Knoxville Electrical Engineering Department for an R & D project funded by the Center for Ultra Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT), which is a joint NSF/DOE-funded engineering research center. Contact us with any of your custom metal cabinet or enclosure needs, and […]
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A stronger RF current will soon be pulsing through the tower array at TWR Bonaire. The last of the phasor equipment for Transworld Radio is being crated in our facility, soon to be on a ship bound for the beautiful Dutch island, where our ATUs have already been installed and are awaiting the phasor system […]
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As radio stations in North and South America, AM stations in particular, move to claim the value of the high-dollar property they’re sitting on, the demand for Kintronic Labs’ multiplexed directional antenna system products has significantly increased. Most recently, Kintronics was chosen by the second-largest U.S. radio group Cumulus Media to provide the equipment to […]
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