WBZ/Westinghouse/Springfield, MA

[Dan.Strassberg]

And the most recent example is the 1510 AM licensed to Piedmont CA 
(KPIG?). One element of the five-element nighttime rooftop DA (located 
atop a warehouse in Oakland; AFAIK, the only rooftop DA in the US) is 
a vertical wire dropped from a horizontal wire that joins the tops of 
two of the four real towers in the array. Since KPIG and KGIL were at 
one point both owned by Saul Levine, I have to assume that he got the 
idea for KPIG's drop-wire from KGIL's probably 70-year-old drop-wire. 
I think, however, when KGA powers down at night and KPIG increases its 
night power, the drop-wire will no longer be used.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
Cc: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: WBZ/Westinghouse/Springfield, MA


> <<On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:33:54 -0400, "Doug Drown" 
> <revdoug1@verizon.net> said:
>
>> I've seen pictures of this sort of arrangement before (common in 
>> the early
>> days of radio), but never realized that the towers were only 
>> support
>> structures.  Thanks for the info.
>
> There are some examples (KGIL is one that comes to mind) that have
> actual driven towers and a (vertical) wire antenna.
>
> -GAWollman