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Transmitter location: Ocean County, New Jersey

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Control point and alternate transmitter location: Huntington Township, Pennsylvania (25 miles WSW of Wilkes-Barre)

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Phil at the WP3XEN broadcast site test station, Spring City, PA

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    NEW THREAT TO AM AND VINTAGE RADIO OPERATION! READ ABOUT IT HERE. (REVISED JANUARY 2008)

    Contents:

     W3P Special Event Station, QSL information

     AM Station

     Collins 20V-Series 160 Meter Conversion Tips

     Gates BC-1T and BC-500T 160 Meter Conversion Tips

     Gates BC-1T Service Hints

     WP3XEN: Greater Philadelphia's Experimental Broadcast Station

     Cheesecake, Anyone?

     Phil's Killer Bean Soup

     Phil's Northern Fried Chicken

     Deep-Fried Oreoâ Cookies?

    Phil's Philadelphia-Style Tasty Enrobed Cake

     The Ultimate Old Buzzard's Confection

     An Unorthodox Christmas

     A New Image?

     Contact Information

     Current Projects

     Biographical Information

     Personal Interests 

     KA2XUK LF Experiments

     Useful Links

    Contact Information

    Electronic mail address:

    Phil (at) k2pg.com

    Mailing address:

    Philip E. Galasso
    635 State Route 239
    Shickshinny, PA 18655

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    Current Projects:

    The Collins 21E broadcast transmitter is on the air from Pennsylvania! This transmitter came from WMTR in Morristown, New Jersey. WMTR totally redesigned its transmitter plant, retiring the venerable 21E and replacing it with a Harris DX-10, providing full redundancy.

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    Biographical Information

    Birthday: May 15

    Place of birth: Elizabeth, New Jersey

    Marital status: Single...nobody to nag me but my cats!

    Occupation: Broadcast engineer.

    Radio Clubs: AM International #1316, QCWA #28512, Grey Hair Net #221, FISTS #2995

    Professional Society: Society of Broadcast Engineers, #3676 (expired). The SBE became a bit greedy and jacked their membership dues sky high, so I dropped my membership.

    Professional License: FCC General Radiotelephone Operator License, PG-3-10080

    Professional Certification: SBE Certified Broadcast Radio Engineer

    Licensed September 27, 1968 as WN2HMH. I held the callsign WB3EZA briefly while working in Pennsylvania. The callsign of my New Jersey station was changed from WA2HMH to K2PG on May 24, 1977. The New Jersey station has been at its current location since May, 1992. I came to Wilkes-Barre in March, 2004 and moved to Huntington Township (a very rural area) in October, 2005. The New Jersey station is still on the air.

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    Personal Interests

    I enjoy restoring vintage radio equipment and using it on the air. Non-radio related interests include beekeeping, gardening, and just hanging out on the beach or hiking through the mountains and cooling off in a nice mountain lake.

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    Useful Links

    The AM Window (WB3HUZ)

    Class E AM Transmitters (WA1QIX)

    Antique Electronic Supply (Tubes and old-timey parts)

    RF Parts (Power tubes and semiconductors)

    Mouser Electronics (General electronic components; no minimum order)

    P.W. Dahl & Company (Large transformers and reactors)

    Boat Anchor Manual Archive (Manuals for vintage radio equipment)

    Collins Collectors' Association (Manuals for Collins amateur, commercial, and military equipment)

    AAAR / HARN Page (K1SOB)

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