[BC] WSB Atlanta

[dhultsman5@aol.com]

WSB hasn't had an old Western Electric for many years.  Their WE 407  was replaced by a CEC Model 317B with the WE 407 as a backup.  The 407 was replaced by a 317C transmitter befoe they move to the new building into the shopping center,  When the moved to the new transmitter building next to the tower they had the two CE 50 kW's,  317B and 317C  along with a rented CEC 315R-1 5kW. 
 
Dave Hultsman
Continental Electronics .
Birmingham, AL
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-----Original Message-----
From: miltron at mindspring.com
To: broadcast at radiolists.net
Sent: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] WSB Atlanta



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.

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