[BC] Radio Transmitters in Residences

[Dub Irvin]

The site you are talking about is WHIS. The chief engineer later moved in to
the house and eventually bought it from the company. We moved the
transmitter out of his house and into an adjacent fallout shelter. I have
some pics if you're interested.

We had the same setup at our FM and TV transmitter site on East River
mountain. The transmitters are in a house and the transmitter engineer and
his family lived there from 1955 to 2001. The company retained that house
and the site is unmanned now. I used to wish I lived up there. I thought it
would be incredibly cool. Unfortunately, I was born too late.

-Dub

On 21/12/05 07:41, "AM Lover" <amfan at collins21e.com> wrote:

> Years and years ago, many  moons passing, I visited a 5KW huge gates 5B  AM
> Transmitter in a house in Bluefield, WV if I recall.  The transmitter was
> dutifully installed in a special room built right in the house and if I recall
> there was a big picture window where you could see the transmitter from the
> living room and the tower was in the backyard.  This had all been built back
> in the early 50's or 60;s.  The house was a nice ranch style house of modern
> design.  No one was living in the house when I visited but surely they could
> have and someone most likely did when it was installed that way.
> Furthermore the house was in some kind of small subdivision with other houses!
> Imagine that getting built today.  Ah the good old days.
> 
> That is the only one like that that I ever saw, and I thought how thrilling it
> would be to actually live in a house that had a transmitter in it. How
> convenient.  I would love to have been the transmitter superintendent living
> at the WLW site in the 1930's!  How much more RF heaven could a person be in
> than that.
> 
> Ah the good old days.  Solid state rectifiers and transmitters just don't do
> it for me like the good old beautiful art deco transmitters from days of old.
> 
> _bob_
> 
> 
> 
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