[BC] RE: Westinghouse 50HG transmitters

[nakayle at gmail.com]

Well it's certainly sad to see these fine pieces of machinery disappearing
from the scene.  Yes, they took up a lot of space and used more juice, and
didn't have the audio punch of modern PDM transmitters, but they were built
like battleships and sure impressive to look at!  And they lasted a lot
longer then the flimsily constructed solid-state boxes of today will I bet.

 - Nat Kayle  (in a nostalgic mood)


On Jan 11, 2008 2:01 PM, Scott Fybush <scott at fybush.com> wrote:

> As I mentioned in an e-mail to Barry recently, the last two 50HGs in
> western New York were at WHAM in Rochester and WKBW (WWKB) in Buffalo.
> I'm not sure when WHAM's 50HG was removed from service, but I know it
> was removed from the transmitter building in 2003 to make room for a new
> Harris. KB's 50HG is gone from that building as well, and has been for
> some time; there's a DX50 in part of the space where that unit used to
> sit.
>
> WBZ's 50HG was already gone the first time I ever set foot in the
> transmitter building, circa 1994. (The lineup then was an MW50 and a
> DX50; the MW has since been replaced by a 3DX50.)
>
> The only 50HGs I've seen in place are at WOWO, WHO and KFAB, and the
> only one of those that's still operational (though rarely used) is WOWO's.
>
>