WBZ/Westinghouse/Springfield, MA

[Scott Fybush]

Doug Drown wrote:
>> Did WBZA use at least one of the twin towers right up until the 
>> station's demise?
> 
>> It used both of them, but never to transmit from.  WBZA had a "T" 
>> antenna.
> 
> Please excuse my ignorance, but for what purpose, then, were the towers 
> used?  To pick up the signal from Boston?  I'd have thought that would 
> have been done via phone lines.
> 
> Where was WBZA's transmission tower?  I confess I don't know what a "T" 
> tower is.  Is it still standing?

The two towers, which are still standing, supported a wire antenna, no 
longer present, that was strung between them. The antenna was made up of 
a vertical feed that ran to a horizontal wire dipole...hence, a "T."

The towers themselves were just support structures for the antenna itself.

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