[BC] WDCR 1340

[Carl Strathmeyer]

> Recently they fired it up long enough to keep the license.

 

Yes. I was part of that little project. It had been off the air for nearly a
year. No landline STL any more, no AC power to the shack. We rigged a remote
FM transmitter as a temporary STL and ran a portable generator for AC power.

 

> As I recall the athletic fields had encroached onto the ground system.

 

That was but one of many indignities suffered by that poor ground system. At
one point, they dumped tons of gravel and made a parking lot. Then when they
wanted an athletic field, they bulldozed the gravel and landscaped -
including draining ditches. The ground system was re-laid at least two times
in the 1970s to remediate some of the damage. To no avail anyhow, since the
transmitter site is in the shadow of a granite hill much higher than the
tower!

 

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From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>

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Recently they fired it up long enough to keep the license.

-D

 

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From: "Kevin C. Kidd CSRE/AMD" <kkbroadcastengineering at gmail.com>

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If this is the station that I am thinking about...  I provided a

proposal last year to either move it or rebuild the ground system.  As I

recall the athletic fields had encroached onto the ground system in the

past and and were about to either displace the station or encroach even

further.  I don't recall all of the details.

 

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Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD

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