[BC] Re: Jerry Mathis

[Jerry Mathis]

Yep, that's it! I was the Engineer who built that station, working for Carl
Swafford. I also did some work for it after Carl sold it (I forget the
buyer's name). The station went off the air not long after.

A while back, I was driving through Adamsville (I still visit Harbert Hills
and friends I have there), and was curious as to what happened to the tower
site. I could see the tops of the towers from Highway 64. I drove by there.
The transmitter shack is falling apart, and I could see the Collins
transmitter sitting inside the building. It's been smashed. Rather sad.

--
Jerry Mathis

On 3/16/09, kevin redding <dc2daylight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I became interested in radio at the age of 12 or 13. I had been shipped off
>> to a religious boarding high school in the backwoods of Tennessee. This
>> was
>> a place where you worked to pay a part of your education.
>>
>
> This sure sounds like Harbert Hills Academy. Been there once or twice and
> it is in the middle of nowhere.
>
> I found your story interesting because I am in Crump, TN right east of the
> big Love and Truth Church in Adamsville.
>
> I live next door to the guy who used to own WEAB and still wear an old WLIC
> t-shirt....
>
> Never got into commercial radio. I used to install and test radios and
> antennas on ships and submarines in a shipyard in Connecticut.
>
> Kevin
>