[NJARC] Atlantic City Broadcast Transmitter

[SalB203 at aol.com]

It was a fun and exciting day, some back breaking moments loading the  
transmitter on my trailer but we did it sucessfully! I took plenty of photos but  if 
you go to this link  
http://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=62869&sid=920b498fa426db4cf82888551ede83e3
you  will see some photos of the move. I posted these photos on the 
Antiqueradios.com  forum.

Thanks to all who helped.

Regards,
Sal Brisindi
 
In a message dated 10/31/2006 10:44:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
enrpnr at erols.com writes:

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The  work crew of Sal Brisindi, John Ruccolo, Steve Goulart, Ray Facinelli
and  Ray Chase, greatly assisted by Tom McNally, the station Chief  Engineer,
successfully removed the 1947 vintage transmitter from the  station building
in Atlantic City and moved it to InfoAge where it is  temporarily stored.
This was accomplished without smashing any fingers or  toes although there
will be some sore backs today.  We removed four  heavy transformers and with
judicious planning maneuvered it out of the  building and onto Sal's flat bed
trailer.  The transmitter is a RCA  BTA-250L 250 watt AM unit, 7 ft. tall and
fully loaded weighting 1360  pounds.  They sure made them tough in 1947.
While removing the heavy  "iron" reduced the weight by about 400 pounds, that
big heavy steel cabinet  was tough to handle (no hand holds).  The unit needs
a lot of  cleaning, some flaked painting repair (any good body & fender
craftsmen  available?) as well as replacement of a jury rigged circuit
breaker.   Site http://hawkins.pair.com/atcitynj.shtml shows a picture of  the
transmitter along with much other useful information about the  transmitter
site.  BTW, the station call is WMID @ 1340 khz and this  transmitter was the
backup to the backup unit and was used on the air  several years ago.  Many
thanks to the owners and workers at WMID for  donating this equipment to
InfoAge and to the club members who did the  work.
Ray
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