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Laser Hot Hits - Technical
Transmitter
2 x 25Kw CSI transmitters with a combiner unit
1 x CRL Mk 4 Audio Processor
Aerial Height
230’ (70m) (collapsed January 1987)
After the collapse a new 80' aerial tower was constructed using some spare sections of the old lattice mast, which were still on board the ship from Laser 558 days. A 'T' aerial was then rigged from this tower to the remains of the original front mast
Top: the main studio on board the Communicator
Bottom: the Production studio
Above: The transmitter room on board the Communicator
Studio
Production Studio
2 x Technics SP15 turntables
2 x Otari 5050B turntables
Control panel/mixing console (a modified Audio Technics 12 channel stereo board)
2 x cartridge machines
2 x Audio Technics cassette recorders
2 x microphones
On air Studio
Control panel/mixing console
1 x Otari open reel tape machine
2 x cartridge machines
1 x Revox turntable
1 x cassette recorder
QSL Card
Radio station engineering departments issue QSL cards to verify reception reports received from listeners
