[BC] Re: Station with the slant wire feed (with picture)

[Tom]

It looks like a base insulator - actually a set of three - although I 
must admit that's a bit unusual to put the insulators above the base cone...

Did you notice the caption?  That "ATU" is THE TRANSMITTER HOUSE!  No RF 
STL either; so how do they get audio and control out there?  Or power, 
come to think of it...

(The tower doesn't need lit, it's 60.98 meters; 90.8°.  IIRC, lights are 
at or above 62 meters...)

Here's what the FCC has; I notice there's no file number associated....

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=8726

And no notation there about a non-series-fed tower, either.

And the Silent Stations list only has one AM in New York State:

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/status/silentAM.html

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?facid=468

WIPS          NY TICONDEROGA

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1250 kHz  1 kw D, 85 watts night, ND

wmroradio at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Willie and all,
>   
>     I was looking at the NECRAT site at the WVKZ-AM 1240 site in Schenectady, NY. I don't know if this site is operating or not, but this AM tower doesn't look to have any kind of slant wire or unipole. As a matter of fact, it looks to be a grounded tower, no base insulator! 

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Tom Spencer
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