[BC] Some historical questions

[Dave Dunsmoor]

> >     I'm also still looking for info on the first station to use a
verticle
> >tower radiator rather than a flat-top T-antenna, if anyone knows that.
>
>          I doubt there will be a specific reference to
>          "first" on that.... although I could be wrong.
>
>          The issue seems to have been based on the
>          development of base insulators, and
>          I've read the 1928 time period was when
>          they could support a full tower.
>
>          Of course, there could have been shunt fed
>          towers previously, not requiring a base
>          insulator.  But that didn't see too popular
>          at the time.


I know that KLPM went from a T-type on top of the Leland Parker Motel in
Minot sometime around
the late 20's. My mother-in-law relayed stories of going up to watch the
live orchestras play through
the studio windows when she was (much) younger.

The tower that the current station (was KKOA, now KRRZ) is on was
constructed in
either '27 or '29 (I think). It's been so long since I saw the original
blueprints that I forget. Don't have
ready access to them now, or I'd go look it up. It was a shunt fed about
176' on 1390, and stayed that
way until the early 80's when is was upgraded with a skirt, and it remains
in that configuration today.

Dave Dunsmoor