How much difference can an ATU upgrade make for a station’s performance? A LOT, when you look at this case in point, WPLI-AM in Lynchburg, VA. Owned by Mel Wheeler, Inc., WPLI was in desperate need of a replacement for their old Raytheon ATU (that information alone says how old it is). For some background, […]
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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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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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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 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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The talented machinists and engineers at Kintronic Labs cranked out another custom-designed order, this one a weatherproof phasor designed by consulting engineer Clarence Beverage for Alpha Media station WHAG-AM in Halfway, Maryland. According to Alpha’s Director of Engineering, Mike Everhart, the original WHAG phasor was destroyed in a fire that also took out the building […]
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Early this year Kintronic supplied Canada’s Trafalgar Broadcasting with ATUs, filter cabinets and a new phasor to facilitate the diplexing of AM stations CJMR and CJYE in Oakville, Ontario. It was a unique situation in that the ATU buildings were very small, requiring their roofs to be removed in order to lower the ATU and […]
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We are one step closer to the completion of the WMAL WSPZ diplexing project, as our team wrapped up the installation of the WMAL 4-tower DA-1 open panel and shelf phasor and other accessories in the new Kintronic-supplied prefab concrete transmitter building last week. Next stop: Germantown, Maryland, for the final installation, tuning and commissioning.
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Kintronic Labs is proud to be promoting Array Solutions’ latest model of the PowerAIM antenna analyzer, the PowerAIM 150. This upgraded version includes improved digital signal processing filters that enable measurements in the presence of RF interference up to 150 v peak, 3x that of the PowerAIM 120. The RF source power of the PowerAIM 150 […]
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Broadcom International recently released a report on the commissioning of a diplexer supplied by LS Telcom of South Africa for the Sentech MW site in Welgedacht, South Africa. Kintronic Labs supplied the DRM-capable antenna system consisting of the diplexing unit for the operation of 2×50 kW operating frequencies (540 kHz and 702 kHz) connected to […]
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