[BC] Re: WVKZ-AM Tower Site (picture)

[wmroradio at bellsouth.net]

This one has me puzzled? Are you guys/gals too, sure that there is an insulator there? If so, it would have to be those 3 legs near the bottom. The caption says the transmitter is in there. We'll that is possible, but I wouldn't put my BE in an old box like that. I wonder if that tower has an impedance of straight 50 ohms, if not how in the world did they get a transmitter and some sort of ATU in there?

Yes it seems like no audio or power lines out there either. If the power is underground from a padmount transfomrer (which is probably not the case) this would be the only way to send the power to that old wooden box.

I wonder WHO took these pictures? This can't be the whole site? There has to be much more to this than what we are able to see. There is no way they could be operating without a base insulator, not that small of one, where the legs going to the cone are insulated.

I wonder if someone that lives close by that site could go by there and get some answers? I'm very curious of what if this tower is really alive. I can't see how, but people do strange things with AM and make it work like magic. I only see one wire going from that old box to the tower. Wonder what that wire is for, base current, perhaps?

If they can make an AM antenna system work like this, I want to know their secret!

***Stanley Adams, if you're out there, chime in on this. I've got to call you & just maybe we can figure this out. I zoomed in too and I can't see any insulators.

Scott

--
Scott Bailey
President/General Manager
WMRO-AM, Magic 1560
Gallatin, TN

  
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom <radiofreetom at gmail.com>
>
> It looks like a base insulator - actually a set of three - although I 
> must admit that's a bit unusual to put the insulators above the base cone...
> 
> Did you notice the caption?  That "ATU" is THE TRANSMITTER HOUSE!  No RF 
> STL either; so how do they get audio and control out there?  Or power, 
> come to think of it...
> 
> (The tower doesn't need lit, it's 60.98 meters; 90.8°.  IIRC, lights are 
> at or above 62 meters...)
> 
> Here's what the FCC has; I notice there's no file number associated....
> 
> http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=8726
> 
> And no notation there about a non-series-fed tower, either.
> 
> And the Silent Stations list only has one AM in New York State:
> 
> http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/status/silentAM.html
> 
> http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?facid=468
> 
> WIPS          NY TICONDEROGA
> 
> Licensee: BISIBLUE, L.L.C.
> 
> 1250 kHz  1 kw D, 85 watts night, ND
> 
> wmroradio at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > Willie and all,
> >   
>     I was looking at the NECRAT site at the WVKZ-AM 1240 site in Schenectady, 
> NY. I don't know if this site is operating or not, but this AM tower doesn't 
> look to have any kind of slant wire or unipole. As a matter of fact, it looks to 
> be a grounded tower, no base insulator! 
> 
> -- 
> Tom Spencer
> PG-18-25453 (nee' P1-18-48841)
> http://radioxtz.com/
> 
> 
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