[SBE16-Seattle] Looking for an FM TX

Lowell Kiesow lkiesow at knkx.org
Fri Apr 11 16:39:33 PDT 2025


Sam,

Have you talked it over with the US distributor, Progressive Concepts?
They seem to offer pretty good support. They helped me with a V2 just a few
months ago. The only other advice I can give is be sure to power the unit
with a true-online UPS.

Lowell Kiesow
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM Sam Mulvey via SBE16-Seattle <
sbe16-seattle at sea.sbe16.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> In short, the transmitter for KTQA-LP is starting to die.  I've replaced
> a couple components and reworked some bits on the controller board, and
> I'm getting dangerously close to the parts where firmware access will be
> required to debug and repair.  I'm going to keep at it but the general
> faith in the transmitter has basically evaporated.   It's a BW Broadcast
> TX300V2, for those interested.  So we're looking for a new one at a
> point where we weren't ready for one.
>
> Does anyone have anything lying about that could be put to use
> LPFM-wise?   Need something that can do roughly 100W, but headroom is
> nice.  Our current budget would be best described as "existent but
> comedic."
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Sam, N9MII
>
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