[BC] Westinghouse 50HG transmitters

[Peter Burk]

At KB, the 50HG was replaced with an MW-50, and the 50HG had two cabinets
hacked out to make room for a new phasing cabinet.  (I wasn't there when
that happened... and I don't think I could have done it.)  Later, the rest
of the 50HG was removed and a 317 C-2 was installed as an alternate main.
Through all of this, the RCA 10 remained a loyal standby and was often used
to permit transmitter testing into the dummy without running the demand
meter off the scale.

This was once a beautiful transmittter site.  One the second floor, art deco
railings and trim framed an impressive view of the RCA-10 on the left wall,
the WGR 5kW on the right, and 40 feet of 50HG right in front.  All the
transmitters were neatly built into the wall, with a service hallway behind
and generous shop and office space in the rear, looking out over the 100
acre antenna farm. The iron for the 50HG occupied a large vault below the
transmitter. The modulation transformer was 7 feet tall. Mercifully, the
transformers tested free of PCB's and were hauled out to make room for a
250kW genset.

pete

-----Original Message-----
From: R A Meuser [mailto:rameuser at ieee.org] 
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:51 PM
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] Westinghouse 50HG transmitters

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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