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Author Topic: Great photos of the preserved KPH station  (Read 5316 times)
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« on: July 30, 2011, 03:26:16 AM »

Lots of sweet gear here, even if it was not AM.

drool-drool-drool. Cheesy

http://nonplused.org/panos/kph/index.html

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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2011, 06:59:12 AM »

WOW very nice pics and Navigate around the room, like a GOOGLE map picture. To breathe tube air from all of that equipment!!!
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2011, 07:39:18 AM »

I could use one of those RCA transformers sitting there on the shelves.  Wink Neat pics.
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2011, 09:11:14 AM »

lots of real transmitters, wonder what it would have been like to be there at night in the winter time, when it got a little colder and all those transmitters are running?
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2011, 10:04:21 PM »

I wish that was KPD, not KPH
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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2011, 11:54:13 AM »

SO glad that was preserved. 
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2011, 12:51:15 PM »

Click on the first pic and scroll to the left towards the end of the panel then up a bit to see the square screen. On the screen is the image of the guy taking the picture.

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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2011, 01:11:50 PM »

That's the way transmitters should be set up..In a row so you can walk behind them and access everything...I like the storeroom with the rows of big bottles...(750ths???) next to the tubes with handles..
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« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2011, 02:25:54 PM »

Thanks for posting this. The group that restored this did a beautiful job! They also did a beautiful job with the web site!

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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2011, 02:53:39 PM »

That's the way transmitters should be set up..In a row so you can walk behind them and access everything...I like the storeroom with the rows of big bottles...(750ths???) next to the tubes with handles..

Yeah, nice 'n neat, easy to find stuff. Those bottles are a MV rectifiers, W.E. I think. Got one here somewhere. Over to the right is a big water-cooled tube minus its jacket. A couple of those are visible in a later shot, sitting on a hand cart.

I wonder if their success with saving this station is related to it being in a declared park/preserve? Thinking mainly of MCC/WCC and others that have been closed and torn down for development or to return to the town, etc. These places end up being on some desirable (by today's standards) real estate. Haven't been to WCC since it reverted to the town, but I recall reading about the towers being razed along with many of the buildings.

Here's another one (WOO) in some amount of peril:

http://www.teslaradio.org/

At least in this case, the sites are on the register and can't be destroyed.

Hats off to Dick and the gang for keeping KPH around for future generations.
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« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2011, 03:40:41 PM »

While with the FCC Monitoring Division prior to and during WW2, I routinely copied and took reference bearings on KPH. Reference bearings were taken on frequencies and in directions close to unidentified stations to correct for errors in propagation direction on bearings taken on the unidentified ones.

It's just terrific that KPH is kept alive!

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« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2011, 03:47:46 PM »

Lots of other great 360 tours of other places, like museum ships and such!

Check out what's on the desk in the control area of Alcatraz...

http://nonplused.org/panos/alcatraz/admin/02.html
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« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2011, 05:38:32 PM »

That was a real comm center with real RF techs.... they did all of their own work, nothing contracted out.

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