[SBE] Request for assistance

[Albert Muick]

Greetings, All, from Kabul Afghanistan!

 

I received a request for help from a fellow broadcast engineer in England,
who is renovating a mediumwave (AM) transmitter for Radio Mazambique.  It's
a Philips 8FZ 516/100 50kW AM tx'er which was commissioned in 1965.  He's
having a real tough time getting any schematics and any real help with this
beastie.

 

Is there anyone out there who has had any experience with the Philips brand
tx'ers?  I have posted his missive with his email address and website below
and if you can help, please respond to him directly.

 

Personal thanks to all for reading this and I hope someone is able to assist
Chris!

 

Best,

 

Al Muick, CBRE

 

===================forwarded message================

 

From:  turner.c at virgin.net  or chris at lmradio.org 

 

Dear Al

Jerry forwarded your mail along to me. Thank you for the help and I would be
pleased for you to post my email address with a request for info /
schematics. 

I will also follow up on the other suggestions you have made.

I think Philips must have closed that division because I get no help from
their central contact address and I'm not sure if they passed their support
activities along to another company.

The tubes are still available new, they were quite a common air cooled TX
tube capable of 30kW single ended or 60kW in push pull. 

Maybe someone in the world still has one of these TX's in an unused
transmitter building... who knows? 

Radio Mozambique has a whole hall full of transmitters, unfortunately nearly
all short wave... none of which are in operation...!! However, they are
dismantling the site to make way for housing in 2010 and moving their
existing MW operations to a new site. The 918 kHz TX along with all the
short wave stuff will be scrapped unless I can rebuild it.

I would appreciate any help to get this TX back on air. 

Philips 8FZ 516/100 50kW AM TX commissioned in January 1965. PA and Mod
Tubes TL12/40  or TY12/15 (4 off)

best wishes

Chris Turner
www.lmradio.org

 

"The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he
can get from where he is to where he wants to go." - J.P. Morgan 

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