TWiRT Ep. 575 - Minding Your AM Site with Benjamin Dawson and Stephen Lockwood

A few AM station owners have turned their licenses back into the FCC, giving up on their AM radio business. Many other AM station owners, however, are looking for ways to profit from their AM transmitter site property, or to reduce transmission site costs. Co-locating with land mobile and cellular towers using an inexpensive slant-wire feed for the AM station may be a solution for some AM station owners. There are other financial mitigations as well. Benjamin Dawson and Stephen Lockwood from Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers join us to discuss the possibilities.* “Collocating AM Transmitter Facilities With Cellular Monopole Towers“ - Radio World* “Optimization of Shared-Frequency AM Antenna Systems Using Synergistic Filter Design” - Ronald D. Rackley, PE* Deferred Maintenance and Its Effects on Future Costs - Ben Dawson* Revisiting Medium Wave Ground System Requirements - Ben Dawson & Stephen Lockwood* We talked about Maxwell’s equations (from Wikipedia)* Crane Arc from AM Station RF (video clip)GuestsBenjamin F. Dawson, III, PE - Consulting Engineer, Hatfield & DawsonStephen S. Lockwood, PE - President/Senior Electrical Engineer, Hatfield & DawsonHostKirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas BroadcastingFollow Kirk on Twitter - @kharnackFollow TWiRT on Twitter - @TWiRTshow and FacebookSponsored byNautel and the continuing informative live webinars. Sign up for free!Broadcasters General Store, with outstanding service, saving, and support.