Kinda neat
June 26th, 2009, 8:53 am · 3 Comments · posted by Andrew Wineke
KRCC has an online tour of the transmission towers up on Cheyenne Mountain.
Also, Colorado College’s public station is doing a special one-day fund drive this Sunday to fill the gap in the station’s budget created by the recession.
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There’re a few more towers and transmitters up there than when Bud Edmonds donated KCMS’ old backup to us at KRCC and we drove up to disassemble it and haul it down.
After visiting the engineers living up there (the FCC required live monitoring of transmitters then) we took it apart and brought it down. Unfortunately, Bud had described the wrong unit to us so, we pulled his on line standby out, and had to put it back after a blizzard. KCMS didn’t loose its main transmitter during the time and I don’t think Bud ever let the FCC know about the situation — which would have required re-certifying the transmitter and antenna.
That’s a fascinating bit of history. How long ago was that?
The date on the slides I shot during our adventure put it sometime in the winter of ‘69-’70. We knew the old transmitter way dying and we were looking for a backup while we worked with the CC administration and Chief Tyree to figure out the future of the station.
In one of life’s little coincidences, Mrs. Tyree was my 5th grade teacher at Skyway Elementary