USS Yorktown Transmitter?

[jcprov21]

I was at Patriots Point in Charleston the other day and I happened to look up the mast of the ship and it looked as if there was a transmitter for some type of radio station on the top? Or am I just crazy..

 

[more kilowatts]

An Amateur Radio repeater has been located on the Yorktown for years. It is WA4USN on 146.790 with a -offset. I used to work this repeater every time I visited the area. It is part of a large linked system. Could that be what you saw?

 

[SCMidlands]

SC Educational Radio use to have their Charleston studios on the USS Yorktown. I don't think this is still true? ETV has had so many budget cutting moves over the years. Also Sumter use to have local educational radio studios in downtown Sumter. I believe everything for SCER now comes from Columbia or PBS.

 

[Radio-X]

SC Educational Radio use to have their Charleston studios on the USS Yorktown. I don't think this is still true? ETV has had so many budget cutting moves over the years. Also Sumter use to have local educational radio studios in downtown Sumter. I believe everything for SCER now comes from Columbia or PBS.

For the radio stations...I'm not sure. I know WSCI and WJWJ both announce their TOH ID's as (for example) "Your NPR News (Classical) station, ETV Radio, WJWJ Beaufort, WRLK Aiken...etc...etc"

Even for WJWJ-FM, I've never heard them break off from ETV News programming. I rarely listen to the classical network, so...

TV, however, is a different story. I know WJWJ has some of their own programming separate from the ETV Master Control in Columbia...even have their own (slightly outdated) website that has a lot of history on the station. If memory recalls, WJWJ, WNSC and WNTV all have (or had) local programming.

Radio-X

 

[jcprov21]

Well what I was speaking of was on the very top there apperared to be a red and white painted mast. I thought maybe they thought it was a creative place to put a radio transmitter.