Talk:ABC Radio Adelaide
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Techo memories
I worked as a trainee technician at both Brooklyn Park and Pimpala in the 1960s. Neither main transmitter at Brooklyn Park was 50kW, but whether they were 2 or 5 or even 10kW I don't remember; there may have been one of each. The two main transmitters at Pimpala were nominally 55kW, and I could swear to that on a stack of ARRL handbooks; at each site there was a standby transmitter of more modest power, readily retunable to either frequency. At Brooklyn Park there was one transmitting antenna (a bottom-loaded vertical mast) for each frequency; Pimpala had (and still has) the one mast with a "top hat" and capacitor loading just below the top section, designed for "anti-fading", ie. minimising "skywave" radiation. Both sites had a standby antenna in the event of a problem in the
Humorous trivia: The tuning hut at Brooklyn Park was surrounded by a man-proof
Requested move 17 April 2020
- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Moved buidhe 05:12, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
- Support - makes sense JarrahTree 09:13, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- Support - seems to be common sense. Aoziwe (talk) 09:51, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- Support Doug butler (talk) 09:54, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- Support. Not at all obvious why it was moved away, see #Discussion. Andrewa (talk) 10:15, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Discussion
I note previous moves:
08:23, 10 January 2017 Robbo128 talk contribs block 47 bytes +47 Robbo128 moved page ABC Radio Adelaide to 891 ABC Adelaide over redirect 08:31, 10 January 2017 Robbo128 talk contribs block 43 bytes +43 Robbo128 moved page 891 ABC Adelaide to ABC Adelaide: Rebranding
So this move would just complete the triangle. Hopefully it will lead to stability. Andrewa (talk) 10:15, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
- The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.