[BC] Oldest Transmitter still in daily service

[Steve]

I worked at KSTN in the Summer of '68. I can't believe that baby is still
there. Knox passed away since that article. (As you probably know). He was
up there in age. Didn't read the entire article but I remember we got the FM
transmitter readings sent back from Fremont Peak on the subcarrier and the
request line (one line) never stopped blinking. It had a big audience. Let's
see...broke White Room by Cream there. That's a whole other story. :)

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Fybush" <scott at fybush.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Oldest Transmitter still in daily service


>
> >Now and then, people have mention Gates BC-1F's on the list that are
still
> >running, but I don't recall where. The BC-1F dates to about 1950. I think
> >if you look hard you might also find a few Collins 20V2's out there, and
> >those date to the mid-50's.
>
> There is a Collins of that vintage that's still running at KSTN in
> Stockton, California. I can't find my notes from that trip to confirm
> the model number, and I'll have to get with Paul Shinn, their chief,
> to confirm. (If anyone can figure it out from a not-very-good
> picture, there's one here:
http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-051118.html)
>
> I can say with more certainty that the two oldest transmitters I've
> seen that are still in place, albeit non-working, at an active
> transmitter site are a 1930 McClatchy homebrew 100-watter at KWG in
> Stockton (you can see it at the URL above, too), and of course the
> 1927 Western Electric at WLW. Sadly, I was told during my last visit
> to WLW a month ago that the heat exchanger for the Western failed a
> couple of years ago, and so the old beast isn't currently operable -
> but, being WLW, they hope to get it fixed sometime soon.
>
> s
>
>
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