Re: Last transmission from old WBZ tower

[kb3ouk]

as timtron described it, the antenna was on the actual towers on the roof, the building is like 70 feet and the towers were 110, so the vertical portion of the antenna was like 110 tall, then the horizontal part was i think something like 230 feet long, then the one tower was being fed as a counterpoise, along with some radials on the roof, and tim also said he had some exposed wiring that he tied into the ground system. i remember he said about he hoped that maybe it was part of a spiders web of wiring that ran through the entire building.

[flintstone mop]

That building will be a helluva thing to knock down. Expensive.
Demo an old building that was built to stay up for 200 hundred years. Hard to break

[KA2DZT]

Run between the towers.  From what I heard on air is that one of operators owns the company that's taking down the towers.  So he was able to climb them.

[Ed KB1HVS]

  I worked them around 1:15? EDT.  First time on the air for me since New Years Eve.......

[kb3ouk]

i never did get to work them. spent all morning calling them then around 1:45 decided to call it quits.

[w1vtp]

Worked them OK.  Looks as if conditions were favorable for locals.  Todd, I couldn't even see you on the panadaptor.  I know it was frustrating for some.  I could hear some weak stations but W1Z couldn't.

Great idea.  Glad I could participate

Al

[K3ZS]

I gave up, they could not hear many from 3 land over all of the local stations.

[k4kyv]

Wonder if the horizontal portion of the L was strung all the way up between the tops of the towers, like the original BC antenna?

Somewhere I downloaded a copy of the original blueprints to the inverted-L broadcast antenna.  They apparently just used a single wire instead of the usual multi-wire flat-top or cage.  Maybe to reduce likelihood ice-storm damage?

I was out of town till late, then had late dinner after arriving home, so didn't get out to the shack in time to hear anything. When I started listening, ZUL Gerry in Ohio was in a large group on 3885, but I didn't hear W1Z in the mix.

[W2PFY]

The link has been updated.

http://www.necrat.us/wbza/wbza.html

Somewhere I downloaded a copy of the original blueprints to the inverted-L broadcast antenna.  They apparently just used a single wire instead of the usual multi-wire flat-top or cage.  Maybe to reduce likelihood ice-storm damage?

That was on my post back in March. The link has been updated. More pictures etc. Worth a look and the blueprint is there.

http://www.springfieldradio.com/wbz.html


The original thread is below and worth a look.

http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=27180.0

[WB2CAU]

The event started later than scheduled yesterday morning.  I recorded it but I was not listening so I was unaware when it had changed frequency.  So I have it in two incomplete fragments.

If anyone would like to listen, here are links to the two mp3 downloads:

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1277085454/cfcfd728bbfc8ce5ca9b79000c33ca9e

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1277085796/411609c7f07ee8153cba964f5797f9de

Hope that works... tell me if it doesn't.  If not, I will delete the post

Eric

         

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Todd, I couldn't even see you on the panadaptor.  

Doesn't surprise me, Al. I honestly didn't expect to hear more than a weak carrier from them, if anything. Heard nothing all morning, wasn't until my chance trip back into the garage that I heard a strong signal a few kc away and found them. Curt was between 56-59 but the audio was large here. No trouble hearing them whatsoever.

Wonder if Curt will cut up the tower pieces and sell them like they did with the original KDKA tower? Hopefully he'll save that winch and the aerial itself.

TNX for posting the links, Terry. Saw those old towers numerous times over the years without giving much thought to their loss someday.

[kb3ouk]

they ought to send a slice of tower leg out with every QSL and SWl reception card.