I found it!

[kb2vxa]

We both forgot an important reason to forgo phase modulated AM, way too many tubes which raises operating costs all in itself. The Continental 317-C uses far fewer so is economical, very popular and one more bit of reduced AC power requirement, screen grid modulated finals in the Doherty configuration. (If I remember right he was a ham cartoonist, hi.) Eh, if you're power mad why stop there, you might find a 105-C around someplace. Ah, that's a puny megawatt, if you want to add 3dB to that there's a band switching shortwave Collins in Greenville, NC...............

"I wouldn't mind getting hold of a 500 W or 1 Kw Bcast AM transmitter..."
That 200A 230V single phase main would yawn and go back to sleep, typically the mains breaker for a KW broadcast transmitter is 40A. I installed a few, ran the wiring and put the cutoff switches on the wall next to them, when stations went solid state we saved SO many tubers from the scrapper.

Since I've already posted 1KW broadcast transmitters too many times here's your Continental at the WNEW plant. Not exactly underwater there's still a bit of wreckage across from WMCA on Patterson Plank Road, not the Jersey Shore, the Meadowlands. What's here at the Jersey Shore are relics, the defunct AT&T transatlantic HF station WOO in Ocean Gate and the old RCA maritime CW station in West Creek, ex WSC now W2WSC, the Tuckerton Wireless ARC club station. Since I don't have a photo of WOO here's something else of interest besides my AT&T avatar.

OH, ALMOST FORGOT! One of the local clubs (Tesla?) made an agreement with AT&T to lease space at the site, turn it into a museum and use the old antennas. That would give the boys down in West Creek a run for the money but last I heard Sandy did extensive damage putting it all in doubt. I wish I had a better connection to the jungle telegraph, it would be nice to know what's going on in my back yard.

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state we saved SO many tubers from the scrapper.

Since I've already posted 1KW broadcast transmitters too many times here's your Continental at the WNEW plant. Not exactly underwater there's still a bit of wreckage across from WMCA on Patterson Plank Road, not the Jersey Shore, the Meadowlands.

So, how did that place end up underwater. Did they raze it and then flood the area ? Or did they abandon it and just let nature take it's course. It's strange I remember being in that plant quite a few times. However, when I was there the transmitter in the forefront was removed and a solid stater installed in it's place and the one at the far end was still there as a backup.

[kb2vxa]

It always WAS underwater, that part of Kearney is a salt marsh. Here are a couple of screen capture shots from Google Earth to refresh your memory. Notice the capacitance hats you saw in the photo in the lower right. Down the street is WMCA, same situation underwater... well, at least the radials are. Interesting, installing them they didn't use a Ditch Witch, they used a boat. (;->)

Solid stater? Are you sure it wasn't a solid rotor? <hiss boo> Yeah, it was a Nautel AMPFET 50 that along with the Continental as backup moved to Carlstadt.

As an aside, the original WBBR, the old Watchtower Bible and Tract Society station on 1330 kHz that had its transmitter on Staten Island, New York City, on an 18 acre farm owned by Jehovah's Witnesses and a 4X6 foot studio in Brooklyn. (;->) Religious station WBBR first went on in 1924 and in 1957 it was sold to a new owner, who called it WPOW. It shared air time with WEVD named after the Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs and (heh heh heh) a certain pirate station on 1340 that waited until they switched to avoid being buried in splatter. Oh, now WEVD is WWRV and the old WPOW dark, now the callsign is assigned to Power 96 in Miami.