[BC] Old abandoned AM stations and Art Deco Buildings

[Paul Smith W4KNX]

No, too far away from home...LOL... I did come close a few years ago
purchasing a former AT&T Long Lines Microwave repeater site.  One whale of a
tower, 50KW generator, and bombshelter building.  Problem was extensive
pollution was found from Lead batteries on site.  Couldnt accept the
liability even if they were willing to indemnify me.  Would have made a
great ham station, and doghouse when the YL was mad at me.

Paul Smith


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Paul,
   Maybe you should make an offer to buy the building, land, and old
tower site and have your own retro shack there!

Scott

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Paul

More info on that tower!
Should have said 250 watts 7 or 8 miles to the UF campus at NIGHT!...
When
WGGG was there the building housed the studios and transmitter... There
was
a tuning box for the slant wire next to the sudio building about 100
feet or
so from the base... It is interesting that that tower may have base
insulators (not sure) but it was shunt feed with a slant wire and it got
out
very well considering Gi=ainesville is less than a 2mhos!

Now that I think about it, the Gainesville airport is just a few miles
away,
maybe they need that strobe because of the airport  slant distance..

After WGGG, which I think the FCC chairmen Mark Fowler got his start in
radio , those studios were used for WKTK FM and the remains of the tower

were used for STL purposes...

Regards
Steve
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From: "Paul Smith W4KNX" <paul at amtower.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 12:11 PM
Subject: [BC] Old abandoned AM stations and Art Deco Buildings


> On my way up to North Carolina last week, I ran across this old radio
> station just east of Gainesville Florida.  It appears that the tower
has
> been used up until recently, but the TX shacks have been broken into
and a
> mess made of them.  The building is obvious Art Deco and looks to be
from
> the late 30's.  The tower is unusual as it is painted red and blue.
I've
> never seen that combination before.  I assume it was a legal
combination
> at
> one time.  The tower is obviously very old by its design and even
though
> it
> is self supporting, guys have been added to support it.  Anyone one
know
> what station this is/was?     Here's the link:
> http://216.247.232.254/gainesville.htm
>
> Paul Smith
> W4KNX
> Sarasota, FL
>
>
>
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