[BC] Re: [Tech-Assist] KFAB ANTENNA

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Yes. A friend of mine who worked in production, and
I went out to the site. The "engineer very much in
charge" said he didn't need any help and ordered us
off the property, using threats of prosecution. In a
couple of weeks I drove back to the site and noticed
that it was completely repaired.

I guess, if you have plenty of money to throw at a
problem, you don't need any help. Rumor was
that the guy we met worked for Collins or
Continental and wouldn't have accepted help
from the competition if his life depended on it
-- entirely unlike most people in the Broadcast
Equipment business at the time.

--
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Read about my book
http://www.LymanSchool.org


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From: PeterH5322 <peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com>
> 
> > I was living in Omaha, working for Ray McMartin, when a tornado
> > came through and twisted those towers all together! Rumor
> > was that the station stayed on the air and the only reason why
> > somebody decided to check on the transmitter was the common-
> > point reading was "all screwed up!"
> 
> If at least one tower was usable, in whole or in part, or a temporary "T" 
> could be erected, the station could remain on-air with 50 kW days and 10 
> kW nights, or the lesser of those and whatever the temporary tower could 
> handle, during repairs.
> 
> KGO operated for a year or so on a partially destroyed circa 1941 tower 
> (two of the three were destroyed by the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake), 
> first with around 10 kW 24 hours, later with 50 kW days and 10 kW nights, 
> KNX operated for about the same time with 10 kW 24 hours when a terrorist 
> downed its circa 1936 tower in the 1960s, and KFI is operating with 25 kW 
> into its auxiliary, and soon ... it is rumored ... to be operating with 
> 50 kW from the presently unused 1150 site while the new top-loaded tower 
> us erected.
> 
> A Class A is given wide latitude. A Class B is not.
> 
>