Transmitter Remote Controls and Efficiency - Mt Wilson Los Angeles

This is part five of my tour at Mt. Wilson in Los Angeles, CA. We're looking at the auxiliary facilities for KBIG, KIIS, KOST, and KRRL. This is at the Deer Park facility on the northwestern part of Mt. Wilson.
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[@jrjr1273]

I really enjoyed the videos.
Thank You

[@JohnLeslie68]

Loved this 5 part tour. Thanks so much for producing and posting it. Being in NH I doubt I’ll get to Mount Wilson anytime soon and couldn’t see inside buildings anyway. Any mountain top sites you can video…. I’m there. John KC1ANI

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Thanks for watching! I am working on one here outside Denver at Lookout Mountain to post in a couple of weeks.

[@SeanBZA]

Thanks Marcus, a nice view of your world.

[@StringerNews1]

The structures look so ... California. Yesterday I came across a website with photos of Chicago (where I started my career) transmitter sites, and there everything is steel and stone. On the plus side, WMVP AM has kept the old WCFL art deco letters on its transmitter building. As a kid in the '60s and early '70s, WCFL and WLS were the Top 40 AM powerhouses in Chicago.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

It does seem that each region has somewhat of a theme of how the sites look.
KFI in Los Angeles has art deco on their transmitter site. It’s pretty neat to see.

[@johnpinckney4979]

@@TheBroadcastEngineer When I DX'ed KFI in Northern VA back in 1972, they even put EKKO stamps on the QSL card with a 50th anniversary commemorative seal. It was a trip hearing KFI under the splatter of WMAL-630.

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

@@johnpinckney4979 Honestly I didn't know skip went that far. I have heard many from the west to other places in the west but never heard anything from the east coast.

[@johnpinckney4979]

@@InsideOfMyOwnMind Furthest east I've ever heard on AM while our west was WWL-870 from New Orleans while driving late at night on the 15 Fwy in the desert. DX can be strange, though. On the 6-Meter ham band (50 MHz), I've heard Bermuda and British Guiana in in Virginia, but couldn't work them. I've also heard Hawaii on 6, but didn't see any of the TV's although a couple of Californians made it.

[@HooptiesProduction]

Hey I wanted to tell you guys that do the stuff on broadcasting engineering I like it it's really cool I learned by watching and understanding how it all works why did you blur out some of the images on your video is that personal information or why did you do that outside of that the video looks really good

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Thanks for the kind words! I love being able to share something that I really enjoy doing.
I’ll blur things out if they have confidential information. Sometimes it’s device log in information or phone numbers, etc.

[@roncaruso931]

It seems like the radio engineer is becoming obsolete. Like he said in 20 years they will no longer need a human on site.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Someone still has to maintain the equipment. Things do go wrong and having someone with knowledge and experience reduces downtime significantly.

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

So BCEs spend their days doing nothing but preventing the 2AM calls.🤣

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

I guess that’s one way of putting it… Another way is spending their days preventing failures that would result in being off the air.

[@ThumperKJFK]

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