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This is my one piece of electronics gear purchase (other than a small network switch) that I made yesterday at Dayton. The rest was components or literature.

This is designed for a broadcast booth, and listens to multiple inputs such as radio, TV, weather radio, etc. for the SAME burst sent during a weather alert or other emergency services notification. It's capable of spitting it out as serial data, as an interrupted audio alert, or as a screen crawl for video. (Don't think mine has that option.) It was $20, appears functional, and as soon as I can program it, will go into my rack.

The only odd thing was the manufacturer used a center-ground on the power input, instead of using the outer shell. It's made here in Ohio, and I actually looked at the company once for employment. Kind of a neat piece.

This is my one piece of electronics gear purchase (other than a small network switch) that I made yesterday at Dayton. The rest was components or literature. This is designed for a broadcast booth, and listens to multiple inputs such as radio, TV, weather radio, etc. for the SAME burst sent during a weather alert or other emergency services notification. It's capable of spitting it out as serial data, as an interrupted audio alert, or as a screen crawl for video. (Don't think mine has that option.) It was $20, appears functional, and as soon as I can program it, will go into my rack. The only odd thing was the manufacturer used a center-ground on the power input, instead of using the outer shell. It's made here in Ohio, and I actually looked at the company once for employment. Kind of a neat piece.

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Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.

Lol, I would not be surprised if you had a bunker.

WTAM is our LP1 up here. They only broadcast at 50,000 at night though I believe.

WLW is indeed legendary as far as radio goes. Idk that there was ever another station that broadcast at 500,000 watts.

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KDKA Pittsburgh had a 400kW capacity at one time.

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I've wondered what the hourly cost is to transmit at those levels even 50k. That seems like a lot of power.

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You could probably assume it was 50% efficient, so it would be consuming 1000kWh of power every hour it was on the air.

It's hard to find electricity rates for that time period, so I'll use this article:

https://www.fortnightly.com/fortnightly/2015/12-0/cost-electricity-roaring-20s-minneapolis

Which averages out to about 9.14 cents / kWh. So for every hour the transmitter was on the air, it consumed about $91 in electricity. Rates were probably cheaper in more-developed Cincy than in Minneapolis, but that's all I have.

In today's cash, that's ~$1540/hr of operation, for almost $37,000 per day of operation. That doesn't include the army of technicians and engineers to keep it on the air.