Category Archives: AM Products
How to Set the Ball Gap Spacing of your Arc Gap
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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KCRO KIBM Diplexer & Skirt Kit
Last year, we had the privilege of working with Walnut Media USA in Omaha, Nebraska to design and manufacture the antenna tuning units and filters to diplex station KIBM 1490kHz on station KCRO 660kHz, both 1 kW. All of the equipment was mounted in unpainted aluminum enclosures with support stands. The equipment included shunt filters […]
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KUVR KRVN Nebraska Rural Radio Diplexer
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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CKNW CKSP Diplexer
In September of this year the new broadcast operation of the Sher E Punjab Media AM radio station was launched as a result of new phasing, matching and filtering equipment designed and supplied by Kintronic Labs and installed by GS Broadcast Technical Services that was utilized to facilitate the co-location of the Sher E Punjab […]
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ATU Upgrade for WPLI 1390kHz
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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Large Medium Wave Project for the Thai Government
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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AM Transmission Site in Paradise
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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KTL Nails Pre-Tune, Saving Engineer from Extreme North Pole Temps
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 in the North Pole
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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