[BC] WSB Atlanta

[Milton R Holladay Jr.]

WSB's signal is pretty poor in many directions because of the Stone Mountain
granite formation  which underlies the whole area (Granite overlaid with red
Georgia clay.)  It can be heard, though quite noisily, in Columbia both day
and night. .
Though it is quite likely, I don't know if they once had a WE. But they did
have Continental 317B # 7 (removed in the late 80s or early 90s), then a
317C (or two) and then a DX-50 or two.
M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Cason" <scott at lagrange-com.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:35 PM
Subject: [BC] WSB Atlanta


> >>At night I don't think they have that great of a signal when I'm
> driving outside of atlanta in SC, NC, AL, FL  but that's probably all
> the interference since all the peanut whistles stay on all night these
> days.
>
> That probably has more to do with the crappy soil conductivity than
> anything else.  The further south in Georgia you go, the worse it gets.
> An owner I know down in south Georgia dug out a large pit, laid the
> radials and built the tower, then flooded it, making his tower stand in
> the middle of a pond.  I can here WSB up here near Louisville pretty
> good on the nights that WJR doesn't beat it to death.
>
>
> >>At one time I thought WSB or some atlanta station  had an old  western
> electric transmitter back in the late 80's it was still there.   Maybe
> that was another station.