{"id":3594,"date":"2011-09-10T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:47:17","slug":"the-gates-bc1j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/the-gates-bc1j\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gates BC1J"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This transmitter is found at <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WBEC_(AM)\" target=\"_blank\">WBEC<\/a> in <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pittsfield,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsfield, MA<\/a>. \u00a0It is still in operation as a standby transmitter for that station and has a manufacture date of 1955. \u00a0The <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/americanradiohistory.com\/Broadcasting_Yearbook_Summary_Page.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Broadcasting Yearbook<\/a> places WBEC first on air in March of 1947. \u00a0This would be the second transmitter the station installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gates-BC1J.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gates-BC1J.jpg\" alt=\"Gates BC1J in service as backup at WBEC, September 2011\" class=\"wp-image-3595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gates-BC1J.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gates-BC1J-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gates-BC1J-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gates-BC1J-400x331.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gates BC1J in service as a backup at WBEC, September 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The transmitter has been in service for 56 years, which is remarkable. &nbsp;This was made back when Gates was just Gates (no Harris) and AM radio was still king of the airwaves. &nbsp;TV was coming of age, FM radio still had a ways to go until widespread acceptance by the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This transmitter doesn&#8217;t get to run very much, the third transmitter installed at WBEC is a Nautel AMPHET-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This transmitter is found at WBEC in Pittsfield, MA. \u00a0It is still in operation as a standby transmitter for that station and has a manufacture date of 1955. \u00a0The Broadcasting Yearbook places WBEC first on air in March of 1947. \u00a0This would be the second transmitter the station installed. The transmitter has been in service &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/the-gates-bc1j\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gates BC1J<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[32,302],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-am-transmitters","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","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=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11724,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/11724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}