[BC] WGUN Westinghouse

[Art Reed]

When I visited the KDKA site in 1975 I saw their HG-50 "rectifier room".
They had rebuilt all of the rectifiers in it by hand.  I was told at that
time that someone had been electrocuted in that room by a similar mistake.
By then their primary tx was an MW-50, but the Westinghouse was still lit up
on standby.  I was also impressed by the tube surrey, which was used for two
people to carry the final tubes in, out and around the building.

Art



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Alsobrook" <radiotech at bellsouth.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] WGUN Westinghouse


> 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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