{"id":5342,"date":"2012-07-17T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5342"},"modified":"2023-04-29T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T12:29:38","slug":"wkze-transmitter-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/wkze-transmitter-site\/","title":{"rendered":"WKZE transmitter site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We rebuilt<\/a> this station’s studio <\/a>couple of years ago.  WKZE<\/a> is licensed to Salisbury, Connecticut<\/a>.  The transmitter is located near Millerton, NY<\/a> and the studio is in Red Hook, NY<\/a>.  Today, I had to go to the transmitter site to fix a problem with the station’s processor.  While there, I snapped a few pictures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"WKZE,<\/a>
WKZE, 98.1 MHz, tower near Millerton, NY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The WKZE single-bay antenna is mounted on the left-hand tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"WKZE<\/a>
WKZE single bay Shively 6810 antenna with Radome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The transmitter is a CCA FM3000DS, made new in April, 1970:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"WKZE<\/a>
WKZE 98.1 MHz CCA FM3000DS transmitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The CCA designs are dirt simple. Grounded grid, driven with an external solid state amplifier that is a modification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"WKZE<\/a>
WKZE CCA FM3000DS  transmitter, 42 years on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"WKZE<\/a>
WKZE CCA transmitter name plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As you can see, this transmitter was originally manufactured for WHVW-FM, which is now WCZX<\/a>.\u00a0 The station has a large, mostly cult following throughout the mid Hudson valley.\u00a0 Even though it is a 3,000-watt class A station, its coverage carries far beyond its theoretical 60 dBu contour:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"WKZE<\/a>
WKZE predicted 60 dBu contour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is because the station is in mono<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We rebuilt this station’s studio couple of years ago.  WKZE is licensed to Salisbury, Connecticut.  The transmitter is located near Millerton, NY and the studio is in Red Hook, NY.  Today, I had to go to the transmitter site to fix a problem with the station’s processor.  While there, I snapped a few pictures: The … Continue reading WKZE transmitter site<\/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":[4],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-fm-transmitter-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342","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=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11576,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions\/11576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}