[ARSCLIST] My cat just ate my phasitron (or vice versa?)--was: Stereo Records

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Robert Hodge" <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>
>  Any idea when GE sold it's last transmitter which used the phasitron
> based exciter? Or if it was ever considered to be used in a multiplex FM
> enviroment ? It would have been tough , I think. I have seen and
> maintained a couple of 250 watt GE FM postwar transmitters  which had
> external vacuum tube and transistorised exciters installed in place of
> the phasitron decks. The exciters were built by Collins and Gates .
> Never saw a GE multiplex exciter. And there were several GE FM and one
> television transmitter- WSYR- Ch 5 - not 3 at that time- that had a
> phasitron based FM aural section which was located here and which were
> being built at Electronics Park here in Syracuse.
> 
What is/was/were/usw. a "Phasitron?!"

Steven C. Barr