WYDD 100.7 to 104.7

[PHIL Z]

I came across an Article on WYDD 100.7 Moving to 104.7 and Selling 100.7 to Milton Hamond. My Question The WNUF 100.7 Transmitter was in West Deer Off Rt. 910 was that the Original WYDD Transmitter or Site? I Was Told the WYDD 104.7 Transmitter was with WKPA AM That's Why One tower is Taller than the Other. Could They Not have 100.7 and 104.7 on the Same Tower?

 

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I came across an Article on WYDD 100.7 Moving to 104.7 and Selling 100.7 to Milton Hamond. My Question The WNUF 100.7 Transmitter was in West Deer Off Rt. 910 was that the Original WYDD Transmitter or Site? I Was Told the WYDD 104.7 Transmitter was with WKPA AM That's Why One tower is Taller than the Other. Could They Not have 100.7 and 104.7 on the Same Tower?

WYDD when it was on 100.7 was 10KW ERP and used the south tower on WKPA's array. When they switched to 104.7, the used the same site but I think this is when they replaced the south tower with a much taller (500') tower. The City of License was also changed to Pittsburgh. With the power increase from 10KW to 50KW, they were legal.

The WNUF transmitter site was built for WNUF. It was a pain to drive up the driveway. In the winter, I had to park at the bottom of the driveway an walk up the hill to the building. WNUF had a 10KW Visual transmitter running at 8.5KW and WYDD had a 20KW Visual transmitter. I'm guessing the traveling Visual sales person made his sales numbers. WNUF did pick up a 3KW GE transmitter for a backup. One a good day going down hill it would put out 1.5KW. WYDD did buy a 20KW Collins and down rated their Visual to 10KW (more than that would cause smoke).

The WNUF building was in Indiana Township. WNUF was able to increase the power to 20KW and the move to Indiana Township allowed the station to miles closer to the North Hills part of time. Milt owned the North Hills Green Sheet and wanted the station to serve the North Hills too. As a part-timer, I did lots of stuff at the radio station and learned how the off-set printing press operated.

The larger WKPA south antenna was shunt fed so the tower could be grounded. This was done to accommodate the cable TV antenna system as the right side of the transmitter building was also the cable head end. The cable stuff is gone.