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Last Updated 4/6/07

Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co.
Baltimore, Md.

I'm looking for more information on the Westinghouse line of transmitters.. Anyone have any info?

Westinghouse decided to get out of the transmitter business in the late 1970s, selling the solid state transmitter design to RCA

Transmitters:

AM transmitters:

 5-HV, 5,000-watt

5-HV-1, 5,000-watt
  5 kW solid state 
  10-HV, 10,000-watt
10-HV-1, 10,000-watt

50-HG, 50,000-watt

50 HG-1 50,000 watts
KEX, Portland, OR


FM transmitters:

 FM-1      1 kW

FM-3      3 kW
WPEN-FM Philadelphia, PA
  FM-10   10 kW
  FM-50   50 kW


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