Hay Guys and Gals...This is a serious transmitter. Go take a look at the pixs and story...
Bob W1PE Subject: Now That's A Transmitter - Featuring the RCA TE-147 Be sure and check out the photos on the web site. The second photo shows the transmitter. Note the three "steering" wheels in the center. The fifth picture shows the back of the same panel. Interesting chain drive. Hello Everyone, The RCN transmitting site at Newport Corner, N.S. has been on the air continuously since May 1943. Set up under a veil of secrecy during the height of the North Atlantic U-boat threat, this backwoods village became the home of an invaluable weapon during the Battle of the Atlantic. Despite a price tag of more than $6 million, an exorbitant expense in those days, it was estimated that the facility paid for itself in three months in the amount of Allied shipping that was saved on the North Atlantic. Its signal could be heard and read from Murmansk to the Falklands and half way around the world. Its technology was considered state-of-the-art at the time capable of emitting up to 80,000 watts of power from each of its 20 transmitters and associated antenna. In 1944, more than one million code groups were transmitted from the site each month. There must have been nearly a thousand ships copying the signals from this station at any given time during the war. The three towers of its main transmitter were 560 feet high and two other towers were 320 feet high. The electrical requirements were staggering. There were oil-immersed switches that stood eighteen feet high. The main aerial had insulators, nine feet long and eighteen inches in diameter, each tested to withstand a strain of 90,000 pounds and 350,000 volts. One of the transmitters installed at Newport Corner was the low frequency RCA type TE-147. It is featured in this newly developed web document : http://jproc.ca/rrp/te147.html -- ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
