[BC] WGUN Westinghouse

[Alan Alsobrook]

I've visited that site when the Westinghouse was on the Air.. quite a 
beast!! I'd like to get some pictures of that installation, very 
impressive. I know of one Atlanta engineer that almost made is last ever 
mistake checking HV rectifiers in the vault. He was in the vault up in 
the rectifier stack when he heard the stepper relay start moving on the 
remote control. That's when he realized he didn't lock out the remote, 
and if the HV on command was given his goose was cooked! Luckily as he 
quickly got out of the stack the relay stopped moving. When he called 
the studio, the jock said "yea, I was turning the transmitter back on 
but my GF called"

Tom Taylor wrote:
> Dave mentioned WGUN and the old Westinghouse HG-2 in Atlanta.
> The HG-2 is still at the site. It has not been operational since the late 90's....at least that's the last time it was reported as exercised in the transmitter log.
> I wish I had the time to restore it....she's a quite impressive transmitter....was built to be 100,000 watts....and I believe it was originally built as a ship transmitter with "light iron." The "Frankenstein" high voltage vault is awesome!  

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Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD CBNT
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