Not sure they show it operating with the door open or not.
And, yes that WAS a REAL transmitter!!
But the fact of the matter is that you could walk around
inside that transmitter.
The tank coils were on par with 55 gallon or perhaps 35gallon size drums, wound with tubing... I was there.
Shame they did not pan the camera across the face of the transmitter, it was several of those glass panels wide...
I've been looking for a picture of the transmitter for many years now, and have yet to find anything other than a low res half-tone from some publication.
When my ham radio mentor, Bob Barkey W2UO (sk) took me and another friend there, we were maybe 14-15yrs old, and although I asked him repeatedly and he confirmed they were going to demolish the place, I could not believe it. As a result, I was reluctant to
take stuff. But that I could have a time machine!! What I did not take were things like the monitor amps, and any of the low level tubes. You know things like 212E, 300B, possibly even a 555 compression driver or two in the monitor speakers, etc...
...I wish I had asked him to go back a second time.
That place made a real impression upon me, and it has never ever left my mind... it was "deco" in all its glory.
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