Connecticut, June, 2005
The great thing about this hobby is that there are few enough other
people doing it that you get a pretty good chance to meet most of
them, and share contacts. We've been friends with Mike Fitzpatrick of
NECRAT for a few years now. Not
only does Mike keep the cathodes hot at WWLP-TV (22/11 Springfield),
but he recently became chairman of the SBE chapter in the Connecticut
River Valley. Mike came along with us for our Boston adventures on
Wednesday, June 8, and he was kind enough to reciprocate on Friday by
arranging for tours of Hartford transmitter sites with Rick Walsh of
Clear Channel, John Ramsey of WCCC/WTMI (who also does contract work
for many smaller operators in the area), and Jeff Hugabone of
Infinity.
The galleries for this trip are organized by state:
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| WKSS, WPHH txen |
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| WKSS/WPHH plumbing |
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| WDRC-FM tower |
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| Armstrong's monopole |
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| Fybush and the monopole |
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| WHCN transmitters |
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| WHCN reject load |
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| WHCN tower |
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| WWYZ tower |
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| Old UHF antenna |
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| WATR-TV studio |
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| West Peak towers in haze |
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| WATR-TV tower |
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| WZMX/WPKT tower |
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| WWYZ transmitters |
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| WWYZ IBOC tx |
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| WKSS/WPHH antennas |
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| WLAT night towers |
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| WLAT day tower/WRCH backup |
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| Old 100.5 transmitter |
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| Dead base insulator |
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| WLAT backup tx, phasor |
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| John Ramsey and WLAT tx |
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| WCCC-FM promo Hummer |
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| WCCC-FM towers |
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| WCCC-FM antenna |
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| Old WCCC tx bldg |
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| Base of WTMI skirting |
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| WTMI tower base |
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| Old tower base |
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| New WCCC-FM tower base |
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| WCCC-FM transmitters |
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| WTIC/WFSB tx bldg |
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| Old WFSB antenna |
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| WFSB tower leg base |
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| Looking up WFSB tower |
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| WTIC-FM; WWUH behind |
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| WFSB backup batwing |
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| WWUH backup |
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| Back of WTIC/WFSB bldg. |
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| WTIC towers |
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| Front door |
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| WTIC-FM tx |
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| WTIC-FM backup tx |
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| WFSB DTV tx |
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| WFSB, WTIC txen |
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| WTIC phasor |
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| WTIC history |
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| Old WTIC logo |
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| WTIC tuning house |
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| WUVN tower |
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| WTIC day tower |
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| WTIC ATU |
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| WTIC-FM, TV towers |
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| Wow, that's big! |
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| Jeff and his night tower |
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Copyright 2005 Garrett Wollman. All rights reserved.