[BC] AM Auxiliary Sites

[Robert Meuser]

The WEPN setup is a no-brainer.  The diplexer into the aux tower was 
already in place for WINS. Not much to switch from 1010 to 1050.

R


Scott Fybush wrote:

> r j carpenter wrote:
>
>> How many AMs have an auxiliary installation at a different site? They 
>> must be very rare.
>
>
> I know of at least four: WBZ (at the studio), WEPN (at the site of 
> sister-station-for-now WABC), WWL (at the site of sister station WWWL 
> 1350, and formerly at the WWL-TV tower) and WCCO (at another former AM 
> site a few miles away).
>
> Unless it's done really on the cheap (something like a little 
> Armstrong or Nautel 1 kW box feeding a longwire on the studio roof), 
> that would be one expense I think even the biggest stations would have 
> a hard time justifying, as long as there's aux capacity and a 
> generator at the main tx site.
>
> I'd think the biggest value to such a separate-site aux facility would 
> be in case massive tower work is needed at the main site. I know the 
> 10 kW-into-a-longwire setup at WBZ got a lot of use a few years ago 
> when the towers at the main site in Hull were being rebuilt, and I 
> believe the WEPN installation at WABC (a 12.5 kW Nautel into the WABC 
> aux tower) was built as a precaution in case the work on the huge 
> Xanadu shopping/sports/entertainment project next to the main WEPN 
> site mucked with the pattern too much (or the WEPN RF played havoc 
> with the construction cranes.) I don't know how much use it's actually 
> gotten.
>
> s
>
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