[BC] Radio Transmitters in Residences

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/21/2005 10:27:01 PM Central Standard Time,  
dubirvin at sbcglobal.net writes:

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.




The old WENO  on 1430 in Nashville, TN had a Collins 21E, 20V and a 4  tower 
Phasor in a building that was lived in by a family when the bought a  Collins 
Power Rock from me in 1978.  The house may have been the radio  station 
studios at one time but it was a home with living room bedrooms and etc.  when we 
put the 5 kW 828E-1 in.
 
 
Also until a fire a couple of years ago WMXX-FM in Jackson, TN had a  
residence built in it transmitter building.  It was neat the guy could take  a nap 
and get up and work on the transmitter and be back in bed in 5  minutes.
 
Also  back in the dark ages in Longview, Texas there used to be a 1  kW. 
three tower AM with an old RCA 1 kW and phasor in on front room of a house  and 
the rest of the house was occupied by the family of the sales manager.
 
Many AM's especially 50 kW. plants had bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens  
because many were manned 24 hours and during WWII were required to have a  
security guard on duty at night.
 
The Mount Washington, NH site was not a house but next to the old  mountain 
top hotel for the TV and FM stations.  It was originally built for  the FM up 
there as part of the old Yankee FM Network.   It was manned  by operators 24 
hours until it was moved to their new HDTV transmitter site near  Portland,  ME. 
    
 
The same goes for the old 106.9 mHz. super-power 500 kW. at Mt. Mitchell,  NC 
which is now WMIT.  It was originally manned and some times you  would be 
stuck for days up there due to weather.
 
 
Incidently;    I had always thought that Mt. Washington in  New Hampshire was 
the highest point east of the Mississippi.  I had always  seen photos of the 
site in Alford, RCa and Shively's calendars.
 
But actually the WMIT site at Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina is  taller.
 
Dave Hultsman