founder dennis covill headquarters hackett s cove nova scotia canada products am fm tv broadcast transmitters navigational radio beacons dgps navtex transmitters high frequency amplifiers website http www.nautel.com nautel ltd. is a canadian manufacturer of am fm and digital tv broadcast transmitters navigational radio beacons differential global positioning system dgps transmitters medium frequency mf telegraph and navtex transmitters and high frequency hf amplifiers for dielectric heating applications . nautel is best known as the first company to develop a commercially available fully solid state broadcast transmitter . history edit nautel was founded in 1969 in the rural community of hackett s cove nova scotia . its primary operation was building and supplying solid state navigation beacons for the canadian government . to better serve the us market nautel maine inc. a wholly owned subsidiary located in bangor maine was founded in 1974 . 1 nautel delivered its first transmitter a radio beacon for the canadian government in 1970 . this was a fully solid state unit operating in the 190 535 khz aeronautical marine navigation band . these transmitters were the first ever commercially available solid state transmission devices all transmitters up to this point having been of the tube variety . because of the greater reliability and longevity of solid state transmitters many of these early models are still in use today . 2 the introduction of 10 kw and 50 kw solid state am transmitters from nautel in 1982 and 1985 was another first for the broadcast industry . 2 the first 50 kw am transmitter from nautel was purchased by cba am in moncton where it remained operational until april 8 2008 when the station s am signal was taken off the air . 3 although commonplace today solid state transmitter technology was non existent before nautel entered the market . more than 20 years after being introduced many of nautel s first generation of am transmitters can still be found operational and on the air at transmitter sites around the world . nautel s introduction of solid state transmitter technology has had a large impact on the radio broadcast industry . as the benefits of solid state technology became clear the industry began to shift away from the use of tube transmitters and began to adopt the more reliable and efficient solid state designs . by the early 1990s solid state transmitters were being widely used in radio broadcasting while sales of vacuum tube transmitters began to decline . since its inception in 1969 nautel has focused solely on solid state broadcast technology with a lineup of 100 % solid state radio transmitters at power levels ranging from 300 w to over 1000 kw . at the nab 2013 show in las vegas it presented its first digital tv transmitter line the nt series now in production . with the july 10 2014 shutdown of larcan 4 nautel is the only canadian manufacturer of broadcast transmitters . references edit radio guide magazine cover story archived august 28 2008 at the wayback machine . a b nautel equipment archive cbc new brunswick archived march 30 2009 at the wayback machine . http www.radioworld.com article larcan closes its doors 271301 external links edit http www.nautel.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nautel & oldid 731739660 categories radio technologymanufacturing companies of canadacompanies based in halifax nova scotiacompanies based in nova scotiamanufacturing companies established in 1969telecommunications companies established in 19691969 establishments in nova scotiahidden categories articles with wayback machine links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 27 july 2016 at 06 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view