KOMO Transmitter Site and RCA BTA-50F

Paging Steve...

DavidEduardo said:

A friend of my www.americanradiohistory.com site sent me this link with a video showing the August, 2017 SBE picnic and tour including a working vintage AM transmitter, complete with the original control desk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0HGLvLFsSM

And, if you like this one, one of my favorites, although it is 30 minutes long, is this one about KFI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnvmf8mPUW8

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Yep, I was actually the last one to have that transmitter on the air running. Shortly after, it was disconnected to make room for a Nautel XL50. The power bill went up $3,000 just to light the filaments.

Had not watched the full video before. Now you all know who and what I look like. A few mistakes in my dialog, I need liner notes.

The original 317C1 at KIRO is in the process of being removed but I hope to save parts of it. Console collection now has a KMPS board from when they were near the Pike place market. The radio collection has grown a little and I'm in the process of putting in more shelves.

Already have a tour scheduled in June for an engineering group. I would eventually like to hold regular tours. Lots of work still to be done. One day I was looking for install notes on the Nautel ND50 at KIRO. Didn't find them but did find 40 years of notes on the old water cooled 407A that were exchanged with WCCO, interesting reading.

KIRO was not the first 50KW west of the Mississippi, but was the first 50KW to use a directional antenna west of the Mississippi.

My long term goal is to have a radio heritage museum out here on Vashon.