[BC] Any manned transmitter sites left?

[Craig Bowman]

WMIT, Black Mountain, NC (2056 m AMSL), the Billy Graham station on 
Clingmans Knob, next to Mount Mitchell (highest point east of the 
rockies) in western North Carolina may very well still be manned.  
Calling this a remote site does not do it justice.  The top of the tower 
(30 m) is ten feet taller than Mount Mitchell so it is the highest point 
east of the rockies.


Craig Bowman


Scott Fybush wrote:
>> I'm curious if there are any stations today that still have manned
>> transmitter sites or is this truly a relic of a bygone era?
>>
>>  - Nat Kayle
>>     
>
> In my travels, I've seen barely any. There are a handful of big stations
> I've visited where an engineer makes his office at the tx site and spends
> significant amounts of time there (Watt Hairston at WSM comes to mind,
> also Roberto Vissani at CHWO/CJBC in Toronto). Even at those stations,
> though, the engineer just happens to be working at the site, as opposed to
> actually "manning" the transmitter.
>
> An interesting related question is whether there are any tx sites left
> that still double as engineers' living quarters. I know of at least one FM
> in LA with an apartment on site that's occupied by the engineer, but
> that's becoming a rarity as well.
>
> Our TV brethren (and, in deference to Rachel E., "sistren" as well) still
> man their sites in very large markets. Several of the LA TVs on Mount
> Wilson are still staffed 24/7 (CBS, Fox), and others (KABC, KNBC, KTLA)
> are staffed on a regular basis during prime-time at least. So are at least
> some of the Empire TVs in New York. At last check, WBZ in Boston has two
> full-time engineers who split their time between the TV and AM sites. It's
> usually one day a week at the AM and four at the TV...
>
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