{"id":7300,"date":"2013-10-24T08:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T12:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2023-03-29T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T18:05:36","slug":"bucket-trucks-and-landing-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/10\/bucket-trucks-and-landing-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucket Trucks and Landing Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hopefully, that title is descriptive enough:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"ATT<\/a>
ATT bucket trucks, , mobilized via landing craft to Pleasure Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We loaded a couple of ATT bucket trucks on a landing craft and waged an assault on Pleasure Beach.  This is to finalize the repair work from Hurricane Sandy<\/a> last year.  The other factor is the construction taking place on the Island.  The City of Bridgeport is constructing a park, which involves extensive repairs and renovations to the buildings.  Construction vehicles driving under the old lines have ripped them down several times, thus repairing the lines on the new utility poles was necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"ATT<\/a>
ATT truck offloading<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"ATT<\/a>
ATT truck offloading<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ATT is the LEC for the Bridgeport area, something they don’t do in most other parts of the country, from what I am told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Landing<\/a>
Landing Craft Challenger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It took approximately four hours to complete this work and reload the trucks back on the landing craft.\u00a0 The boat itself looks like a slightly modified LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized)<\/a>, which was produced from 1943 onward.\u00a0 This is an LCM-8<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"WICC<\/a>
WICC towers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

WICC towers almost in line, I was about one second too late with this shot. This would be “down the bore” of the daytime pattern into downtown Bridgeport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"WICC<\/a>
WICC towers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another shot of the WICC towers. These were designed to hold up a horizontal T top wire antenna strung between the two of them.\u00a0 At some point in the early thirties, somebody realized that the tower itself could be excited as a vertical radiator and the antenna configuration was changed. Up until the mid-1970s there was a horizontal wire which supported a third wire element hanging between the two towers, making it a three-tower directional array.\u00a0 This was removed and it was then that the current phasor and two-tower DA-2 system was installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in a day’s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hopefully, that title is descriptive enough: We loaded a couple of ATT bucket trucks on a landing craft and waged an assault on Pleasure Beach.  This is to finalize the repair work from Hurricane Sandy last year.  The other factor is the construction taking place on the Island.  The City of Bridgeport is constructing a … Continue reading Bucket Trucks and Landing Craft<\/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":[3],"tags":[87,18,61],"class_list":["post-7300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-am","tag-am-transmitter-site","tag-telco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300","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=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}