{"id":8507,"date":"2015-04-21T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2023-03-21T21:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T01:00:43","slug":"the-general-electric-by-4-c-fm-broadcast-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/the-general-electric-by-4-c-fm-broadcast-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"The General Electric BY-4-C FM broadcast antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst working in the generator room at WFLY, I found this bit of treasure stashed on an overhead shelf:<\/p>\n

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General Electric BY-4-C FM circular broadcast antenna, ca 1948<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That is a very old FM broadcast antenna from 1947-48.\u00a0 It must have been intended as a spare antenna in case the main antenna had a problem.\u00a0 It was never needed, so it remains in its original shipping crate.\u00a0 I would think that these were rather well made since the original main antenna was in service from 1948 until 1970 or so when it was replaced with a Shively 6710<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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General Electric BY-4-C antenna element<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The entire antenna is intact including the Interbay lines, power divider T’s, and tuning section.\u00a0 Of course, it is of little use to the radio station today, as it is horizontally polarized.\u00a0 Perhaps some museum somewhere?\u00a0 I don’t know, it would be kind of neat to put it all together and use it as an exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whilst working in the generator room at WFLY, I found this bit of treasure stashed on an overhead shelf: That is a very old FM broadcast antenna from 1947-48.\u00a0 It must have been intended as a spare antenna in case the main antenna had a problem.\u00a0 It was never needed, so it remains in its … Continue reading The General Electric BY-4-C FM broadcast antenna<\/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":[82,229,215],"class_list":["post-8507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-fm","tag-fm-antenna","tag-fm-transmitter-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507","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=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11180,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions\/11180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}