[BC] Beautiful Transmitters destroyed by Fire or Flood and Other Woes

[Engineering]

In 1977, I was working at an AM/FM/TV that burned completely to the ground.
Fire Marshall determined it was a faulty electric heater. We lost an RCA
TT25 art deco looking transmitter and a brand new TT25FL that had never even
been on the air. The FM,IIRC was a Harris and the AM was a Continental. I
have pictures that I took and some that appeared in RCA's Broadcast News.
With the help of RCA, we were back on the air in eleven days, in an adjacent
building, where it still resides today in time for the first game of the 77
World Series. The radio stations were on a few weeks after that. About the
only thing that survived were some station logo Zippo lighters and golf
balls. Everything else was history, including a vast library of records and
tapes, some irreplaceable interviews with many stars of the big band era.

Randy Kerbawy, CSRE
Chief Engineer
Southern Communications
Beckley, WV
engineering at radiocitywv.com
304 461-9249


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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:55 PM
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Subject: [BC] Beautiful Transmitters destroyed by Fire or Flood and Other
Woes

Over the years once in awhile a person reads of a radio station transmitter
building that catches fire and burns down.

Has anyone ever  seen such a mess? I witnessed a tv station transmitter fire
one time,