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Pictures of Senior Road refit & HD build....

Thanks CW for the pictures that was cool! :)
Is this the one with all 9 stations?
 
jras20 said:
Thanks CW for the pictures that was cool! :)
Is this the one with all 9 stations?
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Yep! 92.9, 94.5, 95.7, 96.5, 97.9, 99.1, 100.3, 101.1 and 104.1 are on the tower. (102.1 and 93.7 are on TV13's tower to the east). The original SR Road is one that fell back in the 80s (taking TV20 off the air after a few weeks of sign on) and the video of that fall was shown on Nightline over and over again! This tower is about 40ft away from the original one. The new combiners and antenna were made by ERI...the top of the tower had to be changed to accomodate the new torque bracket at 2000ft. If you Google "Senior Road Tower", you can find more info and pictures on the web...including the technical details at the SRTG web site
 
This tower is about 40ft away from the original one.


CW.... The tower is on the SAME PIN as it was back in 1982. I don't know where or who told you that the tower was moved, but I guarantee you that it's right where the serial number 1 stood...until 9:12AM Decmber 7th.
Trust me.
 
sportzguy said:
This tower is about 40ft away from the original one.


CW.... The tower is on the SAME PIN as it was back in 1982. I don't know where or who told you that the tower was moved, but I guarantee you that it's right where the serial number 1 stood...until 9:12AM Decmber 7th.
Trust me.
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Thats not what I was told.......If it is on the same pin, thats ok with me...but again, I was told different when I was out there in 04 doing some work on one of the platforms
 
How was the reception like before the Senior road? I was to young back in those days to remember, but was Houston radio just as strong back then as it is today?
 
Jras I can't speak to pre-SR local (Houston-area) reception, but while I was grownin' up here in Jackson, MS in the early 70's, several times per month I could DX Beaumont and Houston FM on the nightly skip (tropo?). I assume that the Houston FMs at the time were coming off the downtown tower (Texaco bldg?). KWIC / 107.9 was on the 1380AM stick just W of Boo-mont.

Most fondly remembered was that "big Texas sound": lots of processing, lots of modulation. Favorite: K-101 blasting the *other* Houston 3-piece heavy rock band (King's-X).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_X

Paul E. Burt, Jackson, MS
 
Doctor_Technical said:
Jras I can't speak to pre-SR local (Houston-area) reception, but while I was grownin' up here in Jackson, MS in the early 70's, several times per month I could DX Beaumont and Houston FM on the nightly skip (tropo?). I assume that the Houston FMs at the time were coming off the downtown tower (Texaco bldg?). KWIC / 107.9 was on the 1380AM stick just W of Boo-mont.

Most fondly remembered was that "big Texas sound": lots of processing, lots of modulation. Favorite: K-101 blasting the *other* Houston 3-piece heavy rock band (King's-X).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_X

Paul E. Burt, Jackson, MS
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Hey Paul! Glad to see you here; been a while ;) (See you are no longer in the Big Easy....welcome to the club...well you know..Still in Entergy territory though huh? ;)

As for Pre Sr Road, the big FM stick was on One Shell Plaza (which is still there but leaks BIGTIME last I heard...but I doubt if its been fixed; I think only two stations were attempting to maintain auxs there but with all the buildouts lately, I think everyone has a full aux in the farm on another tower; if not, they will)....The master antenna up there had several of the Road stations on it...and their coverage was not much more than 60 miles from downtown Houston...They didnt make it to Winnie east on I10...and did cover Conroe but not that well....cant say for west because I barely remember it....KQUE on 102.9 did farther to the east for a while until they raised the tower and had to back down in ERP from their superpower of 200+KW. (One Shell was the tallest bldg in downtown Houston during the 70s but it is now shadowed by many other taller ones and is where 26 started)

KWIC's old FM stick was on the SW side of Beaumont (and still stands....is now KRCM but was KJET back then...the FM antenna has been gone for over a decade and the AM stick is badly rusted...when Fred Morton owned it, he looked at moving it across the highway and putting up a 1/4 wave...the current tower is 5/8 thus the power is reduced accordingly for those wondering)...

My best memory of processing was KRBE in the 70s and the CE at the time (?? Damn what was his name?) HE supposively had meter faces (on the mod monitor or processor at the time) made that had a lower black area marked "SORRY", a red area marked "Too Much!" and a TINY green wisp of an area labeled "Just Right" and most of the time, the needles were there...(this I heard from others who saw it personally)...damn they sounded good back then (and this was pre 8100, etc days)
 
CW said:
My best memory of processing was KRBE in the 70s
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KRBE's processing in the 70's was excellent for that era. Many other Top40 FM's at the time had processing that tended to be over the top, and could often become quite raucous when heard on a decent system. KRBE had nice detail and a lot of spaciousness to the stereo platform.
 
Yeah, I understand about the comment about moving the tower. There is plenty off steel still in the ground that was never recoved, but the tower base remains in the exact same spot.
 
The copper was stripped off of the One Shell antenna a while ago. There are no stations FM stations on one shell.
 
The engineer that ran the audio sound of KRBE was Mike Kreil (sp) who at one time had his audio "cranked", then the other stations "cranked" to match then, Mike turned his audio back down one night , then proceeded to take pictures of all the other "overmod" signal and sent them to the FCC.
Of course the picture of KRBE audio was normal at the time. OOPS, I should have said aledgedly !
 
There was nothing that Krell couldn't do. The KRBE mic channel had a .1 second delay between pressing the mic "on" button and the mic turning on. Just so the ringing in the room would have time to die down. This was in the bucket-brigade chip days. ;)

And don't forget the TV Camera and telescope mash-up he installed just to keep on eye on "The Sign" on Westheimer.
 
startel said:
There was nothing that Krehel couldn't do. The KRBE mic channel had a .1 second delay between pressing the mic "on" button and the mic turning on. Just so the ringing in the room would have time to die down. This was in the bucket-brigade chip days. ;)

And don't forget the TV Camera and telescope mash-up he installed just to keep on eye on "The Sign" on Westheimer.
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