[BC] Re: WMCA Tx Site [WAS: More tower sites from above...]

[Fred Gleason]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 09:43, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
> Interesting... it looks like the array is actually located in water! (Looks
> like a shallow, artificial lake.)

Correct.  The entire region (known locally as the 'Jersey Meadows') is 
actually a salt marsh.  Water depth varies, but averages around 1 - 3 ft at 
the WMCA site.  The towers (three 270 foot self-supporters) sit on concrete 
piers that extend down through some ninety feet of swamp bottom before 
hitting bedrock.  The whole thing was built in 1940, when the original WMCA 
tx site in Flushing, Queens was condemned to make way for LaGuardia Airport.  
WNYC (820 kHz). the New York City municipal station, was added to the towers 
in the late eighties.

Cheers!


|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. |   Chief Engineer, WMCA 570, 1989 - 1992     |
|                           |                                             |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of very, very long cat.  You pull    |
| his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.  Do you    |
| understand this?  And radio operates exactly the same way:  you send    |
| signals here, they receive them there.  The only difference is that     |
| there is no cat."                                                       |
|                                                                         |
|                  -- Albert Einstein, upon being asked to describe radio |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|