[BC] Any manned transmitter sites left?

[Kent Winrich]

Isnt WHOM still manned?  Or did that go away when the TV station went off of
the mountain.

On 8/21/06, Brent Hall <halllb at ldschurch.org> wrote:
>
> The KSL-TV transmitter site is manned 24/7 mainly because most of the FM
> stations in town are located in the same building. The site is accessible
> by
> helicopter only in the winter, and the stations all split the cost. The
> transmitter site orginally had it's own tram, but was condemned several
> years
> ago as being unsafe. All the TV stations in town pooled together, and
> built a
> separate building for HDTV.
> -Brent
>
> >>> <nakayle at gmail.com>  >>>
> For years the FCC required a licensed operator on duty at a transmitter
> whenever it was on the air.  For stations with remote located transmitters
> this meant maintaining a full staff of engineers at the transmitter site.
> Over the years this requirement was eased and finally eliminated all
> together, but as late the 1970s many large stations still maintained fully
> staffed transmitter sites even after remote control was permitted.
>
> Today things have changed dramatically and instead of having a staff of
> engineers to maintain a transmitter you are more likely to find one lone
> engineer charged with maintaining several different transmitter sites.
>
> 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
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