ID:
1800
Maker's Name:
RCA
Where made:
USA
1970
Output valve from transmitter constructed by AWA for Channel 8, Wide Bay Television.
Valve dates from 1970. The transmitter, situated on Mt Goonaneman, 60km WNW of Maryborough, was replaced by a solid state system in the 1980s and donated to UQ Physics. Parts were used by UQ PhD student Steven Cooper to build a multi kW driver for a radio frequency discharge pumped HCN laser.
NRH
