{"id":10844,"date":"2022-11-01T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=10844"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T22:02:42","slug":"new-transmitter-building-for-an-old-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-transmitter-building-for-an-old-station\/","title":{"rendered":"New transmitter building for an old station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the site looks like now with the old building removed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Putting the finishing touches on another transmitter site rebuild, this time in central NY. This station for many years used this rambling white residential-looking structure for both the studio and transmitter site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former studio and transmitter site for WDLA, Walton, NY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, over the years, the building has deteriorated beyond economical repair. A few years ago, the studio facility was moved to a new location in town. Now the transmitters are being moved to this repurposed cellular building:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former NEXTEL building, now WDLA AM\/FM transmitter site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was purchased used from a local crane company, which had dozens of them on their lot after NEXTEL was absorbed by Sprint. During the permitting process with the town, they referred to it as a “Circular Use.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are actually nice buildings, coming prewired with a 200 amp single phase service, two working Bard HVAC units, ready-made coax entry ports, etc. My only complaint (so far), is the light switch timer. I like the idea, the lights get switched off automatically and are not left on for months at a time when nobody is at the site. However, the timer only goes up to 2 hours. Thus, when we were doing the installation work, periodically there would be an audible click, then everything would go dark. Not terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Equipment racks and transmitters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Transmitters and equipment racks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are also two other FM stations that have an STL transmitter here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rack placement and grounding work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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STL equipment for two additional stations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All in all, an enjoyable project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: What the site looks like now with the old building removed: Putting the finishing touches on another transmitter site rebuild, this time in central NY. This station for many years used this rambling white residential-looking structure for both the studio and transmitter site: Unfortunately, over the years, the building has deteriorated beyond economical repair. … Continue reading New transmitter building for an old station<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[18,215],"class_list":["post-10844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-installations","tag-am-transmitter-site","tag-fm-transmitter-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11533,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions\/11533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}