The article says WBTV owns the mountain. I assume there was a radio station (WLNK) using their tower. But the tower that was there during my years living in Gaston County is not in the photo of the mountain.
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Spencer Mountain getting trails
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The article says WBTV owns the mountain. I assume there was a radio station (WLNK) using their tower. But the tower that was there during my years living in Gaston County is not in the photo of the mountain.
WLNK is on the WBTV tower off Bob Friday Rd near Dallas. WLNK used to have a backup transmitter on Spencer Mt. I suspect it is still there. NOAA Weather Radio WXL-70 is also on the Spencer Mt tower.
Was WLNK's tower on Spencer Mountain when that was the main WBTV tower?
I couldn't see anything like a tower in the photo.
There was once an emergency transmitter for WLNK on Spencer. I don't know if it's still there. Sirius/XM also has a terrestrial transmitter there. National Weather Service 162.475 mhz weather radio transmitter too, plus a few amateur radio repeaters still operate from Spencer Mountain at the old WBTV shortened tower.
I finally saw the tower in a larger version of the photo, but in the newspaper itself (which was only an eEdition because it was Saturday) I couldn't see anything.
I think the S/XM rig is gone.
The back up was originally a 10KW Harris that they bought used from some station. I remember they went and picked it up in a U-Haul. Ted Bryan (RIP) refurbished it. Looked brand new when he was finished.
They did not have a remote control for it at the time. It came time to grease the Dallas tower guy wires. They had to turn 107.9 off there for tower crew safety. I was hired to operate the Spencer Mt transmitter. It was a boring couple days. But I did get to explore a bit. A really cool site.
Since then the transmitter and the antenna have been replaced. The original backup ERP was something less the 20KW. Now I think it is around 40. No HD from that site. They can remote control it now.
Fun fact...They did not have a generator on Spencer. But they did have two power line feeders coming up from different sides of the mountain. If one went down they could switch to the other.
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