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Re: WGY 810

Hi Dan,

The WGY tower is right off ( and very visible from) the Thruway in
Schenectady. It is a tall, uniform cross section tower and has been there as
long as I can remember -- 30+ years. What gets me is that they don't seem to
have the knock-out signal they should have for their low dial position & 50
kw.

Mark Casey

> And the tower, which most likely still stands, was a
> 665' uniform-cross-section tower originally built for
> use on 790, which was WGY's frequency immediately pre-
> NARBA (March 1941).
>
> I'd bet a nice dinner that this tower had been in use
> from whenever WGY switched from a long-wire to a single
> vertical radiator. My hunch is that tower dates to the
> 1936-1938 era.

>