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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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 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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Transworld Radio Bonaire officially completed its Power Up project on January 30th with a formal dedication ceremony of the new transmitter and antenna system. TWR is now operating the most powerful transmitter in the Western hemisphere! It is coming in loud and clear in Key West, Florida, demonstrating that the Power Up project is […]
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Kintronic Labs is excited to introduce two highly reliable, yet quiet, dehydrators to the broadcast and satellite and telecommunications markets. The most unique feature of these dehydrators is the alternating dual-redundant pumps and drying chambers, which allows for overall reduced power consumption and results in an overall MBTF of 165,000 hours. Both models include alarms […]
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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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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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