[BC] RE: TX shacks....horror stories

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

My Vintage 1950's RCA BTA1M Transmitter sits in the wall. It's barely 10
feet from my console, keeps this place nice and warm. Good thing the AC
seems to work well




On 2/20/07, Wade Giddens <wg345 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Don't tell the electronics students who have only experienced their clean,
> air-conditioned, well-equipped electronics lab!
>
> I started in radio at a station that had a transmitter room in the studio
> building.  The transmitter room there is carpeted, air conditioned,
> well-lighted, convenient, etc.  Every station that I had seen in person
> had
> the transmitter in the studio building.  One was not air conditioned,
> however.  It never dawned on me that transmitters could be in such messy
> environments.
>
>
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:55:05 -0600
> From: "Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE" <kkidd at kkbc.com>
> Subject: Re: [BC] TX shacks......horror stories
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> In another life far far away I serviced a UHF Micor
> community repeater in an outdoor cabinet side mounted on a
> tower in a cattle feed lot.  In the winter I would stop at
> another customer and pick up a couple of sturdy shipping
> pallets to stand on.  Had to get a tow out of the mud/cow
> poop more than once.
>
> I have been gone from the MSS for 12 years and still have a
> hard time looking a 2way radio in the eye.
>
>