Re: [IRCA] VOA transmitter Dixon, CA.

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 01:44 PM 4/4/2007 +0000, you wrote:
>Charles,
>
>Why did VOA close down the Dixon transmitter site and not the Delano 
>site?  The last time I was out a the Dixon site, (2002) the antennas and 
>cement building were still intact.  A few livestock in the fields.  Those 
>huge antennas where really something to look at.
>
>Dennis,
>Vancouver, WA

Dennis,

When I was out at VOA Delano, one of our techs ("engineers," in 
broadcasting terms) was
transferred to Delano from Dixon. I know something of Dixon's operations.

Main reasons are:

1. Decline in HF BC listenership.
2. Dixon used older, less efficient transmitters. Harder to maintain
    and repair.
3. Programming to target countries has moved to IBB Saipan, IBB Thailand and
    IBB Sri Lanka.
4. Delano has 4, 250-kW Brown-Boveri with solid-state switching modulators.
    It also has 2 of the older Collins 821A 250-kW Collins "auto-tune" trans-
    mitters with class B modulators (Same as RCI Sackville has).
5. Expensive US labor costs. All of IBB's new transmitter site are overseas,
    and IBB pays a labor scale closer to the host country.


IBB Greenville's Site A has gone dead, too. Same reason as for Dixon, 
except that
some of the old transmitters are very inefficient.

Charles

Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
Greenville, North Carolina 


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