[BC] KGA's old tower

[Barry McLarnon]

On Saturday 20 October 2007 08:16, Bill Harms wrote:
> The following is a 1933 picture of the original two towers and the
> transmitter building. You can see a faint trace of the horizontal
> radiator wire suspended between the two towers and the vertical lead.
> http://towers.philcobill.com/gallery2/d/4167-2/kga-1933-01.jpg

That picture brought a kick of nostalgia for me - it's very reminiscent of the 
old CKUA towers in my home town of Edmonton, though the CKUA setup was on a 
smaller scale.  The only online picture I can find is here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/365lrj

When I was a youngster, I used to ride my bike over to the site and gaze in 
awe up at those towers.  CKUA had actually moved to a new site back in the 
40's, but the towers were still in place, as was the little transmitter 
building shown in the photo, both having been inherited by the university ham 
club, VE6RR.  The towers now held up a dipole (probably for 80m), and the 
shack sported a tri-band beam.  I never encountered anyone there, but I 
remember peeking in the window to look at the gear.  Later, when I attended 
the university, the ham station and towers were still in place, and I was 
able to operate VE6RR on many occasions (probably way too many!) from that 
little shack during my freshman year.  The following year, the towers and 
shack were dismantled to make way for a new student's union building, and it 
was the end of an era for radio signals emanating from the center of the 
campus.

Barry

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Barry McLarnon  VE3JF  Ottawa, ON