WBUR antennas over the years

[A Joseph Ross]

As I thought, the tower on the Law School was the WBUR antenna when I 
was a student there.


On 11/26/2021 8:37 AM, Scott Fybush wrote:
> Since the FCC made scans of its history cards available online a few 
> years ago, it's gotten much easier to trace these bits of history.
>
> According to WBUR's history cards, then:
>
> 4/3/50 - license to cover for 380 watts (!) from 84 Exeter St
> 4/23/51 - 20 kW from 84 Exeter St
> 7/17/58 - 20 kW/160' from 640 Comm Ave
> 9/29/76 - 22.5 kW/260' from 765 Comm Ave (Law School Bldg.)
>
> The move to 1165 Chestnut happened after the end of the history cards 
> in 1980. I believe it was licensed there at 7.2 kW/305m in Dec. 1987. 
> And the move to the Cedar Street tower was just a few years ago, 
> licensed 8/9/17 with 8.6 kW/358m.
>
> On 11/26/2021 1:02 AM, Eli Polonsky wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 10:38 PM Ron <obrienron2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Eli,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I seem to recall (back in the 70’s?), that WBUR had a free standing 
>>> tower
>>> on campus that you could see from the street.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is my recollection correct?  What years was that in use?
>>>
>>
>> I believe you're thinking of the tower that was at the BU School of
>> Communications, 630 Commonwealth Ave. From what I can find, it was in 
>> use
>> beginning sometime around the late 1950's or early 1960's, when the 
>> station
>> moved from their first original studio and antenna building on Exeter 
>> St.
>> in the Back Bay.
>>
>> I don't know for how long that one at 630 Comm. was in use, I think 
>> through
>> the 1960's and at least some of the '70s, maybe later. Their next 
>> move was
>> to the one on the BU Law building (the current second backup), but I 
>> don't
>> know when that happened.
>>
>> EP
>>

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