It is not every day that we get to work in our back yard but earlier this year we had that opportunity as we completed a diplexing system for our friends at WMTN 1300 and WCRK 1150, located in the Morristown, TN area. Both stations have a long standing history, with WMTN’s original FCC engineering […]
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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 […]
Continue readingKUVR 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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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 […]
Continue readingLarge 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 […]
Continue readingAM 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 […]
Continue readingKTL 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 […]
Continue readingTWR Bonaire’s Shine 800 AM Officially Powered Up to 450 kW
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 […]
Continue readingKintronic Provides Complete AM Antenna System for Radio Kiribati
The latest location to be lighting up the airwaves with a KTL antenna system is the most exotic place yet – Christmas Island in the group of South Pacific islands comprising the Republic of Kiribati. Kintronic was able to supply the complete antenna system to the Kiribati government station Radio Kiribati. The whole system includes […]
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