Re: Fire at WWBX & WABI-AM and assorted musings

["Andy Soule" <doctorradio@yahoo.com>]

I've seen cow pastures, parking lots, and even a shopping mall, but never a
trailer park.

The aluminum siding probably works great as a shield if it's bonded to
ground.  (Try using rabbit ears inside one of those things!).

It seems a poor idea for the radio station though.  Too much potential for
problems with the radials, and no easy way to fix them.

Also, the trailer park/tornado effect could make for a worse disaster than a
blown vacuum cap!

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Andy Soule
Efax# 801-457-2555 - www.geocities.com/doctorradio
-----Original Message-----
From: EM1 GITCHIER <RGITSCHIER@doyle.navy.mil>
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Thursday, April 06, 2000 8:22 PM
Subject: RE: Fire at WWBX & WABI-AM and assorted musings


>I recall a fire a couple of years ago at a standalone AM, WELE 1380 in
>Ormond Beach, FL...
>No one was hurt. They made our like a bandit as they were fully insured for
>the loss. A capacitor shorted in the phasor between the 5kw transmitter and
>four towers.
>Now they have completely rebuilt studios and offices, new Harris five TX,
>new phasor unit control room, yadda yadda. Nice place; I had the pleasure
of
>visiting them for part of a day a while back.
>They have a talk format along with a call-in advertising trade auction.
It's
>a mighty successful business venture. They had to use 1kw out of a single
>tower during reconstruction....
>
>An odd thing about the station is only that a mobile home park was built on
>the antenna farm out back. Makes me wonder what their 5kw signal bleeds
into
>in all those trailers... I remember the string about WXPO ch 50 studios in
>Lowell, MA, unsuccessful attempts at getting WLLH's RF out of their boards
>and equipment... One tower of four is a self-supporting  and the three
>others are uniform cross section...which the CE told me makes it a
>"challenge" to adjust for the prescribed patterns.
>
>Any other examples of residences sharing property with AM TX sites??? I
>can't think of any. WLLH Lawrence's flagpole antenna is on an office
>building, as was their 4 Broadway Lowell uniform cross section tower...  I
>had a copy of the article long ago of the fire that struck the WLLH studios
>when they were out of the Rex Building across from the Federal Bldg on East
>Merrimac St. Lowell, a stone's throw from the Lowell Sun's HQ... I have a
>photo of the Rex Bldg from 1935 with the bottom half of the black
>self-supporting tower. Guess the red n' white paint rule wasn't in
effect...
>
>Ron Gitschier
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Soule [SMTP:doctorradio@yahoo.com]
>>
>> WABI got back on the air first yesterday, both stations are operating
from
>> the WABI transmitter site on WIlson Street in Brewer.  -----------
>> Andy Soule
>>


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