AM Radio History Question

[semoochie]

Sorry, I didn't know there was an interim site. That's what you get for not living in the area, just passing through.

 

[fybush]

I believe KYPA in LA moved back to the Odd Fellow's Building since they couldn't cover their intended demographic from the new site.

They did, for a few years, and the antenna atop the Odd Fellows Hall was even re-strung with new wire and new insulators. But the landlord kept hiking the rent, and so KYPA moved for good a couple of years ago. There is no transmitting equipment left at the Odd Fellows Hall now, just the antenna on the roof.

 

[kenglish]

The transmitter building for the former WMAZ-AM (940 KHz, 50 KW/10KW) in Macon, Georgia....now WMAC, was built in 1935, according to the tax records.
They originally went on the air from Mercer University, then had a transmitter on Radio Drive in west Macon for a short time.

The "new" site is 35 acres (with 5 towers), on Forsyth Road, near Zebulon Road, in Northwest Macon.
It belongs to Cumulus now.

Here's a Bing map/"Bird's Eye View":
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=pgdpqg80p6t0&lvl=18&dir=180&sty=b&form=LMLTCC

 

[K4WRF]

In 1943 when WABC moved their transmitter site from Bound Brook to Lodi, NJ, rather than erecting a new tower, they took down and moved the Bound Brook tower, which had been originally installed in 1925. I know that at least as of 2005, that tower was still in use, and I haven't heard of it being replaced since then.

The Bound Brook site may have been in use as far back as 1925, but the tower was newer. I believe it went up around 1935. The first vertical series-fed, base-insulated radiators didn't come into use until about 1931. WABC (WCBS) at Wayne, NJ had one of the first ones, and so did WNAC in Boston. They predated WSM and WLW by a year or so. All of those early ones were Blaw-Knox "diamond" towers. The first uniform cross-section guyed tower may have been KFI.

Some where, long ago and then recently, I saw an aerial photograph of the Bound Brook site that showed a Blaw-Knox
"diamond" and several or another wire antenna that appeared to be a Rombic.