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KAXE Radio, 91.7 MHz In Grand Rapids, MN is public radio unrelated to Minnesota Public Radio. Their 100 KW FM broadcast facility sends programming to much of northern Minnesota. KAXE Radio is one of our regular customers. Their telephone number is 218-326-1234.
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Dan Houg, Engineer at KAXE,
runs a 6-wheel vehicle up the hill to the transmitter when the road
has problems.
Click on the photo or here to see the photo better. |
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Here is Dan in
front of the Harris HT-25 Transmitter. In the summer of 2004,
there was a neutralization problem that he and Mark Persons cured
using a spectrum analyzer.
Click on the photo or here to see the photo better. |
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Here is Mark Tarner, Program Director for KAXE, doing his show. Note the Gorman-Redlich EAS unit and associated equipment we sold the station. |
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Julie Crabb, volunteer announcer, is caught here getting CD's ready to go on the air. |
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Actually it is a not-so-happy phase converter that failed on Sunday,
July 9, 2000. Mark used a Sencore Z Meter to analyze the
problem and decide there was a short on one of the primary windings
of the phase converter.
We ran the transmitter on single phase power until a replacement phase converter arrived. That 10% power kept the Brainerd and Bemidji translators running even though they were 85 and 65 miles away respectively. |
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Here is Mark with the new Phasemaster rotary converter in place on July 25th, 2000. This new unit worked well and got the station back to full power. |
KAXE has an FM translator in Brainerd at 89.9 MHz and one in Bemidji at 94.7 MHz. You can also hear them on the web at: http://www.kaxe.org Their telephone number is 218-326-1234.
page last edited 03/22/2008
