[BC] Westinghouse 50HG transmitters

R A Meuser rameuser at ieee.org
Fri Jan 11 15:51:09 CST 2008


In the mid 80s there was also a Continental 317 C-1 or C-2 I forget. WGR 
still had an RCA as backup.


1radioguy4u at verizon.net 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. 
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> I was at WGR from 1975-1979 and the 50HG was removed when I was there in favor of an MW-50. They RCA BTA-10 was the standby.
> 
> The WGR/WKBW (WWKB) array was rebuilt at the same time to replace the open wire transmission line with something a little more modern.
> 
> Ben




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