[BC] Continental 314

[Jay Braswell]

Until you mentioned it, I'd forgotten that I'd seen that transmitter. Ken Durst was the engineer at the old WLOW-1300/Aiken, and he took me out to the AM transmitter site. I'd never seen one like it, nor have I seen one since.

The FM tower was on the roof of a two-story building in downtown Aiken, with the studios/transmitter on the second floor. Seems like there was a drug store on the ground level.

Interesting that all three Aiken County AM stations are long silent...WAKN/1kw-D on 990, WLOW/500w-D on 1300 and good ol' WVAP(Burnetttown)/500w-D on 1510.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: DHultsman5 at aol.com 
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  Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [BC] Continental 314


  Actually the correct number was a Model 314. There was one at a station in Aiken, SC. The manager told me the good thing about the transmitter was that he ran only 500 Watts. They had taps for 500 Watts but he could lose one tube and just pull out the bad one and still make his 500 Watts on high power.