[BC] Re: Transmitters in houses

[Andy Linton]

I had a 2kW AM operating from my house for a while.

It was a good job I liked the programming, cos you didn't need a 
radio in the house, it was clearly audible from the pans left on the drainier!

rgds and season's greetings to all!



 >>>  At 05:19 22/12/2005, quoth Xmitters at aol.com:

>In a message dated 12/21/05 10:21:24 PM Central Standard Time,
>broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:
>
><< 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.
>   >>
>
>Hmmm...
>
>I guess you could not do that anymore in Alaska. They've passed a law that
>prohibits anyone from installing something that can produce 
>"radiation" to stop
>this guy that wants a cyclotron in his house. Lots of laymen are afraid of
>"radiation" but I kinda dig "radiation" if it's coming off my ham 
>antenna. Hope
>the hams don't get the fuzzy end of the popsicle stick on this one.
>
>As for having a transmitter viewable from the living room, my fantasy is to
>have a 317C-3 (and the money to pay the electric bill) all to 
>myself, right in
>my house so I can play with it when there's nothing good on TV (which is most
>of the time even though we've upgraded Cable from 20 channels of 
>total crap to
>well over 70 channels of total crap)
>
>Seriously, I've wondered about the chief's family living with a working
>transmitter. Wonder what happens when the nephews, grandkids or even 
>the kids ask
>"Gee daddy, what would happen if I pushed this big red button?" or 
>in the case
>of the TV transmitter has this ever happened; "Well boss, here's the
>explanation of why we were off air during the soaps. My son was home 
>with a bad cold
>and he did not like what he saw on the transmitter TV monitor. So he pushed
>"plate off" thinking it was the channel changer button. He called me shortly
>afterward to tell me that he had broken the great big funny looking TV set."
>
>I guess if there's nothing to watch on TV, the family could sit around and
>watch the TV transmitter. Now as a kid growing up, I would have loved that.
>Hell, I would have never, ever, left the house! But that's the story 
>of my life;
>Born too late or I'm at the train station when my ship pulls in.
>
>I know what I've written is silly, but I seriously wonder if there are any
>interesting stories about the kids or relatives and how they relate with that
>live-in transmitter. closest story I have is a station that was 
>about 20 miles
>from me (since taken dark because the land was worth more than the station)
>where The GM lived in a house with the AM transmitter and Phasor and 
>you walked
>down from his living room (tri level house) into the transmitter room.
>
>
>Jeff Glass
>
>
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       Andy Linton
   Waterford, Ireland