Driving to Columbus for Easter and my wife noted the tri towers at WSVX are now just a single tower. The ATU is there for the side tower but only a single tower remains.
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WSVX Looses another tower
- Thread starter ChiefEngineer
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If someone were to write a journal about WSVX (previously WSVL?) it would be a journal of bradcasting's migration and change in our lifetime. I think I was working in Canton, IL the day WSVL signed on. The A.P. wire carried a story about it which I pulled off the teletype and though I had yet to set foot in Indiana, it caught my attention for some reason.
A couple of years later I would be working in Indy and could tune in the station from time to time and as it was my custom of the day to visit every station I could make time for, I dropped in. It was a neat decent station. The story I heard was that one event put them on the map was the February high school basketball tournament their first or second year on the air. Students had gone out of town by the bus-load and became stranded, unable to get back home. This being the era prior to cell phone, the era where a number of rural homes did not have telephones of any kind, and a limited number of long-distance circuits in and out of a town like Shelbyville, The station became an information conduit to assure families their kids were safe, and where they were. The station was a genuine HERO to many citizens.
It was the era when people in towns like Shelbyville and Columbus and Greensburg and Seymour thought it was their religious duty or something to listen to home-town radio when possible.
I always thought having a 3-tower direction was a real burden for a station like that in a market like that.
It has to be a real drag for people who worked there back then to see what it is today. But that is a story repeated several thousand times across the country.
If you young folks will turn and look the other way for a few minutes, a few of us old timers need a moment of privacy to shed a tear or two.
A couple of years later I would be working in Indy and could tune in the station from time to time and as it was my custom of the day to visit every station I could make time for, I dropped in. It was a neat decent station. The story I heard was that one event put them on the map was the February high school basketball tournament their first or second year on the air. Students had gone out of town by the bus-load and became stranded, unable to get back home. This being the era prior to cell phone, the era where a number of rural homes did not have telephones of any kind, and a limited number of long-distance circuits in and out of a town like Shelbyville, The station became an information conduit to assure families their kids were safe, and where they were. The station was a genuine HERO to many citizens.
It was the era when people in towns like Shelbyville and Columbus and Greensburg and Seymour thought it was their religious duty or something to listen to home-town radio when possible.
I always thought having a 3-tower direction was a real burden for a station like that in a market like that.
It has to be a real drag for people who worked there back then to see what it is today. But that is a story repeated several thousand times across the country.
If you young folks will turn and look the other way for a few minutes, a few of us old timers need a moment of privacy to shed a tear or two.
We lived in Hope. The station transmitter was the start of the Bears Of Blue River Trail we went on for many Scout events. Ann Williams was a legend.
Appears they have filed apps to reduce day power to 260 watts & night power to 4 watts...all non-directional.
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=2872
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=2872
I wonder if the other tower fell or if they took it down on the assumption that the requested facilities would be granted?
It was taken down on purpose.
Scott talked about this way back and the problem was and is the lack of night protection. Less than 250 w means anyone can usurp that night signal.
4 watts will cover Shelbyville at night, but the question is that since they have an FM translator, was anyone listening to the AM at night at 250 watts? My guess is that the 3 people who were lisetning at night all live within the range of the 4 watts anyway. Cheaper electric bill, only 1 tower to paint/relamp/fence...life's getting better all the time up on the Morristown Road.kb9wsl said:
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