NON Metallic Radio Towers ??

[Play Freebird]

I suggested moving the transmitter site the entire time I worked there. Moving it less than two miles inland at almost the same height would have had no effect on the coverage area.

If inland tower space was available at that height and the site met FCC spacing requirements, that's what the owner should have done.

I was under the impression that WEBE ended up at the power plant for lack of a workable alternative. At least the stack provides a big improvement over the former facility (in use when the station was known as WDJF) which I recall had poor coverage in the northern parts of Fairfield County.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

I know little about what's in concrete towers, but if it's full of rebar (especially rebar roughly 30" in length), the omni benefit would not exist. IMHO, the original poster's suggestion of a non-metalic radiator (including no metal inside of the structure) would be the ideal item for an omni-directional pattern.

 

[necrat123]

You would think that smokestack would give them some awful shadowing. That 30A brought back some memories.

IIRC, Ed the CE told me theyre running at 37.5kW. They run in an "A/B" configuration, where one runs 50% of the time, and the other 50%.

OK... So here's the question of the week about WEBE: Why do they need a generator? LOL! I wouldn't think they'd ever loose it due to the fact they ARE at a power plant. Or, is it a peak power plant that's not on 24/7 anymore?

Because no plants are 24/7/365. Plants do have to shut down for routine maintenance and emergencies. All power plants have an incoming power feed from the local utility. WEBE is most likely in the same scenario, using utility power as it's incoming feed, so generator backup.

I don't recall that the WEBE smokestack is attached to a power plant.

I'm the one who took those pictures and can tell you, it is in fact located at the Bridgeport Harbor generating station.