{"id":8777,"date":"2015-08-22T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T13:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=8777"},"modified":"2023-03-26T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:55:25","slug":"north-adams-tower-update-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/08\/north-adams-tower-update-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"North Adams Tower update II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Work continues on rebuilding the North Adams tower after the collapse of March 2014<\/a>.  Over last winter, a new tower was erected.  This is a fairly substantial tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"New<\/a>
New North Adams tower on the ground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"North<\/a>
North Adams new tower erected<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the interim, a new Shively 6810 four bay half wave spaced antenna was ordered. This antenna will be combined for two stations, WUPE-FM<\/a> and WNNI<\/a> using a Shively 2630-2-06 branched combiner. The 70 foot utility pole<\/a> next to the building will be retained as a backup facility for both stations. The Shively Antenna went up in stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"New<\/a>
New WUPE-FM and WNNI Shively 6810 antenna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Tower<\/a>
Tower climbers rigging tower for new antenna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Prescott Tower from Rutland Vermont was on site to do the tower work. They were the primary contractor for installing the new tower and did a really nice job of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"New<\/a>
New North Adams tower ice bridges to various shelters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hanging<\/a>
Hanging the top two bays of the new antenna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Lift<\/a>
Lift of bottom two bays and first tuning section<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Securing<\/a>
Securing the bottom section and bolting bays together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After that, there were twenty feet of rigid line, another tuning section, then the 1 5\/8 inch heliax into the transmitter room. The antenna was tuned and the load looks very good. We are waiting for the electrician to finish wiring up the new racks and we will move both stations into their new home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work continues on rebuilding the North Adams tower after the collapse of March 2014.  Over last winter, a new tower was erected.  This is a fairly substantial tower. In the interim, a new Shively 6810 four bay half wave spaced antenna was ordered. This antenna will be combined for two stations, WUPE-FM and WNNI using … Continue reading North Adams Tower update II<\/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":[229,243,60],"class_list":["post-8777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-fm-antenna","tag-fm-tansmitter-site","tag-fm-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777","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=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11194,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions\/11194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}