[BC] Oldest Transmitter still in daily service

[Bob Groome]

Oh, and WTRR Sanford after they moved were still
using a Collins 20V2 and back up was Collins 300G
from 1939. Somebody check with Tommy to see if
they are still there. Don Taylor, I beleive,
retired Harris restored a BC250 from the 30's and
last I heard was in Quincy and operational. WMEG
920 kHz Melbourne had a BD250GY (1930's) and a
Colline 20V2 operating a few years ago.

--- Scott Fybush <scott at fybush.com> wrote:

> 
> >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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Bob Groome 
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