KC 101.3 reported on Facebook that they've begun taken down the towers of sister station WELI. A video can be found at: http://www.960weli.com/main.html and it says new ones will be erected on the site.
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WELI Towers taken down
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Laurence Glavin
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More impressive than the pics was the news item that beer is superior to water to restore hydration.
Man, Marc, can't slide nothing past you!
The 2 towers at the end of the array (self-supporters) were installed with the original build ('41 or '42) when ELI moved from 1K days/1K directional nights at 930kc to 5K days/1K directional nights at 960kc, and from a 2 tower array at Thill St., West Haven (close to AVZ's site) to the original 3 tower array at Radio Towers Park. They were having trouble penetrating the steel buildings downtown with 1K at night, so in '61 they leveled the center tower of the old 3 tower array, and put 2 guyed towers up, so they could tighten the pattern, and go 5K/5K D. This past December, when we were getting the guy wires replaced, we found that the plugs on the tube steel frame rails had rotted away a decade or 2 ago, and the towers were rotted out from the inside. Tower 3 came down at 12:10 this afternoon, tower 2 came down at 14:30. Got some great pics of the tower crew cutting the guys with a K1200 cutoff saw. I was hoping to save one of the beacons, but they were both goners. I think one of the side lights is OK. Personally, I thought it would make more noise, but I guess camp swampy is still pretty wet from the thaw... They fell with a thud.
We switched the transmitter from the phasor to tower 1 direct, as the normal non-directional "day" tower was tower 3. WELI is operating 5K days, with a STA of a 1/4 power (1250 watts) non-directional nights. The new towers should be up shortly, and are solid steel framed, so the next guy won't have to do this in 2061.
Oh, and this?
Why, so you can hear Vinnie Penn poop Rainbow Goodness weekday mornings from 6 to 9, of course!
Ivan.
The 2 towers at the end of the array (self-supporters) were installed with the original build ('41 or '42) when ELI moved from 1K days/1K directional nights at 930kc to 5K days/1K directional nights at 960kc, and from a 2 tower array at Thill St., West Haven (close to AVZ's site) to the original 3 tower array at Radio Towers Park. They were having trouble penetrating the steel buildings downtown with 1K at night, so in '61 they leveled the center tower of the old 3 tower array, and put 2 guyed towers up, so they could tighten the pattern, and go 5K/5K D. This past December, when we were getting the guy wires replaced, we found that the plugs on the tube steel frame rails had rotted away a decade or 2 ago, and the towers were rotted out from the inside. Tower 3 came down at 12:10 this afternoon, tower 2 came down at 14:30. Got some great pics of the tower crew cutting the guys with a K1200 cutoff saw. I was hoping to save one of the beacons, but they were both goners. I think one of the side lights is OK. Personally, I thought it would make more noise, but I guess camp swampy is still pretty wet from the thaw... They fell with a thud.
We switched the transmitter from the phasor to tower 1 direct, as the normal non-directional "day" tower was tower 3. WELI is operating 5K days, with a STA of a 1/4 power (1250 watts) non-directional nights. The new towers should be up shortly, and are solid steel framed, so the next guy won't have to do this in 2061.
Oh, and this?
Why, so you can hear Vinnie Penn poop Rainbow Goodness weekday mornings from 6 to 9, of course!
Ivan.
Pictures of the WELI tower demo here:
http://home.comcast.net/~wa1hrc/WELI-Tower/weli-tower.html
http://home.comcast.net/~wa1hrc/WELI-Tower/weli-tower.html
Thank you for the pictures! I guess this means I'll temporarily receive no signal up in New Britain for a while? As for the other commercial AM stations in the New Haven market? I get a so-so daytime signal of WQUN-AM 1220 from Hamden here and get absolutely nothing from WAVZ-AM 1300 of New Haven.
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necrat123
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kms575 said:Why bother putting up new ones?
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So they can keep their patterns within the specs of their FCC license.
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TFJM
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Great pictures of the of towers 2 & 3 being dismantled. I grew up in the WELI neighborhood but moved here to Cleveland in 1993 so I missed out on the big event. My dad, Jack Miller, worked at WELI for many years from the mid 50's thru the early 80's and I watched him climb the towers more than once to change lights while attending Dunbar Hill school.
Many great memoires of living in the area. I'll have to contact the station and see if they is a tower part they can send me as a peice of the past.
BTW, as an 8 year old I was on site with my dad in 1961 to watch the original free standing tower #2 fall. I believe it was on an early Saturday morning and somewhere among the many WELI things my dad kept (and that I now have in my posession) is an article and picture of the tower falling that appeared in either the NH Register or Courier.
Many great memoires of living in the area. I'll have to contact the station and see if they is a tower part they can send me as a peice of the past.
BTW, as an 8 year old I was on site with my dad in 1961 to watch the original free standing tower #2 fall. I believe it was on an early Saturday morning and somewhere among the many WELI things my dad kept (and that I now have in my posession) is an article and picture of the tower falling that appeared in either the NH Register or Courier.
Terrific pics. Too bad the stuff that goes OVER the air isn't as good as the towers themselves.
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