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WTIX AM photos online

OMG, does that bring back memories.Wonder where the home built console is today? Almost got to work at the XMTR site when the studios at 332 Carondelet lost power.Luckily power came back on.Bob Walker did duty at the old site.Maybe he can chime in.Ray Fisher
 
Fortunately I only worked at WTIX XMTR Hell on two separate days during my entire TIX tour of duty. It seemed like "the workers in the neighborhood out there" were always alleged cutting the transmission line. That's the story we got as some poor soul with a long face was picked to go out there and play the same old stack of 30 forgotten records until it was fixed. I don't remember the board precisely, I just remember getting chosen to work out there for endless hours, bringing the log and a large box full of commercial cartridges, and the dread we all had to be stuck in that gloomy place which, at the time, was still buried in the swamp with no other life around for a couple of miles. Some of the more creative guys made the best of it by secretly bringing a chick and/or a 12-pack for a long day in the heart of the wilderness. Others, as I mentioned before, brought shotguns to shoot nutria and snakes from outside the front door while the records played, and some brought crawfish nets.

Poor Bobby Reno had to work out there every day when the office was there in the swamp (!) from 1965 till summer 1967.

I've sent the picture link to our chief engineer of those days, Ted Green. I'll post his comments when he replies. By the way, Ray, do you still own any stations or are you out of the bartering biz?

BW
 
Bob, I'm at that point in my life, you know,too young for medicare,too old for women to care.(ha).Basically half retired,but still help put stations on and a processor tweaker from hell(they say).106.1 sure could use some help.sound like hell for an oldies format.Ted Green,now wasn't he a mess,use to make fun of my bell bottoms.That old board should have made it to the hall of fame for louisiana radio.Did you mean a chick and a 12 pack or 12 chicks and a 6 pack at the old xmtr site?
 
Used to go out to the transmitter with Oscar and Barry Barrone on Sunday nights. They'd get me to run the base current readings in the tuning sheds. I remember when Oscar would sign on for maintanance and break out the vinyl for the "Oscar Lewis Show". And after, it was over to the K-Teri Grill on St. Bernard Hwy for one those famous omletts. It wasn't as fun when he left for the "B" and we got Chip Veras, Barry Chickini and a few others. They didn't like to "play" like Oscar. He was a hound!
 
Jeeves2 said:
Was that tower field out in the Bayou Bienvenue swamp (West of Paris Rd.)?
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It was a four tower aray on the west side of Paris Road. I say that because I think they have but one tower intact from Katrina. Back in the 70's, there were at least two towers left in the water after Betsy. I know the catwalk was rebuilt after those pictures. It had a handrail on one side and racoons loved to hang out it at night and chase you back to the building.
 
Wow. 'Love those pictures.

How 'bout the open-wire feedline going out to the antenna doghouses? One doesn't see that too much anymore!

DE
 
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