On the maintenance subject, the boss wanted visits to the transmitter to be as short as possible so that I could be assigned to other tasks. I told him that cleaning was part of the job, but if he did not want cleaning done he should never take anyone to the site. The big boss came down from corporate and wanted to see the site, so I e-mailed him ahead of time telling him of my direct supervisor's unwillingness to let me take the time to make things spotless. Next thing you know my boss is insisting I go up to the site and put a shine on everything. It took hours, but the floor and equipment was left so clean you could lick it like a dinner plate. I even sprayed some stuff on the block walls to prevent dust from being there. When the big boss saw the place he was ready to give me an award!

That's some of the best cable management I've ever seen behind the racks. Usually there's a thousand wires hanging and connected to nothing.

Jay: Thanks for the tour. I worked at WABC AM & FM in NY in the late 1950's, never went to the transmitter. Hank

My husband grew up in a radio family. In the tube era transmitters needed the constant attention of the Chief Engineer. With AM, FM & TV solid state (FET) transmitters Nautel revolutionized broadcasting and brought dependability up and cost down. This company started out with solid state radio beacons in the early 1970's. With online seminars and excellent customer service Nautel is truly the industry leader.

My company made the Wohler audio monitor. I believe that this model was produced before we sold the company. In the early days, we did not anticipate the extent to which our gear would also be used at transmitter sites but they came to be seen as essential to many such facilities. It is always gratifying to me to see it in so many KZfaq facilities tours. Also, I knew almost all of the people behind so much of the other gear you and others use in broadcasting. We would all find ourselves meeting again and again at the many broadcast electronics trade events around the world. I've been privileged to know many of the greatest names in the radio, t.v., film and recording industries including Ray Dolby and Rupert Neve.

Love station tours! Not sure how I missed this on your channel before now! Great video, Jay!

Nice presentation. I retired from exactly what you're doing in 2007. I was CE for Maui stations from 1960 to 1989 then Big Island from 1990 to 2007. It was a good run, I surfed a lot back then too. Look up AH6V. ALOHA Jeremy

Cool! I manage about 15 Nautel transmitters -fun stuff!

Never forget about the kettle and the Coffee. That is vital. My boss always tells me no work, no pay. My reply to that is No Coffee, No Work. Needless to say, I always have an endless supply of Coffee at work.

It's interesting how so many stations are converting to the solid state transmitters. I removed a Harris 3.5K a few weeks ago as the station had bought a new solid state BE. The building is very very small, so it gave them alot more room. The Harris was cleaned up and retuned for another life elsewhere.

I’ve been working on towers for 23 years and I still have never walked the site with an actual technician that knows about the radios being mostly alone in my job so seeing videos like this are awesome and much appreciated

Great video, thanks. I've always enjoyed transmitter site tours.

Thanks for the tour Jay, very nice!

Thanks a lot TVJAY. Your video is a lifesaving one. I don't think you can imagine how useful it is to me (my graduation project).

Awesome! Great job! Good tour explaining what the different parts are.

Thanks for putting this up. Quite interesting to see what's in those sheds.

Thanks for uploading this, I'm currently doing an assignment on diffrent workflows relating to the broadcasting industry. One of the workflows is about how a radio goes from a playlist with music on it, to being mixed with software like radio DJ to eventually being transmitted. Your video is really helpful it shows a traditional professional system at a basic level.

Neat tour Jay! Thanks for sharing.

Great explaining Video - thanks for the tour.....very nice transmitter station!👍👍👍👍

Thanks for the tour Jay, a very nice and useful video

Thank you for the tour! Lol...I was thinking to make a radio channel in my village cause only two stations u can find with bad service...so I tought I get a transmitter from Amazon for couple hundred bucks😂 all this stuff 😂 and the maintenance...just beautiful ❤

Very cool

Awsome.... Excellent description. The description is so well done, I can run the site in an emergency...

Great video and tour once you get everything running and the process and use are basically the same almost all the time and you have redundancy you are good to go. The equipment does need some cleaning and dusting though. Looking forward to a lot more projects and tours.

Thank you for the tour of your site. There are so many "armchair" transmitter site experts out there with all their wise guy comments on how THEY would keep things so clean and pristine. It seems you are doing just fine with the budget you have been given, and the once-per-month schedule you have at the location.

Nice Video. Always love visiting our stations transmitter site. 100k Watt Transmitter. Things a monster! Top of the bally over looking all the valley. Beautiful

Thank you for sharing a vidio i work in community radio myself

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing. 😁👍

Cool tour!

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

I am an intern at a radiostation. We use optical fiber to transmit digital signals from some audio processing technology to the transmitter where analogue signals will transmit to receiver.

Nice tour but you might want to invest in some clean filters for that Nautel transmitter, clean out the junk and clean the dust and dirt out of there. All of your equipment will run much cooler and last a lot longer.

Nice work

Very nice Nautel. I’m a huge fan. Mine has been running for almost a decade. No hiccups.

Nice videos i worked in Community radio the mosely stl link is the best quality out there 😅

It's really interesting how all this equipment survives on a tiny place like that, against the moisture, storms, dust...see how it would be easy to vandalism ! 🤔. I think these sites need more protection and care.

Palo firewall, nice!

Thanks

Really nice equipment. I'm surprised there isn't a desktop computer setup in there as well.

not bad, i wouldn't mind that tower for my ham repeaters lol.

I think seeing this stuff is awesome! Also what kind of music does the station play?

I think that propane tank needs a good high pressure wash to get rid of all that alge. 🍒🍒🍒

Please more about this

Really awesome tour, thanks for sharing! I've always been curious for sites like these, is there any ability to pipe the audio stream over the Internet connection as a backup STL in the event of an issue with the 900 MHz link? Looking forward to more interesting content from your channel!

Great video. Would be interested in a video showing the studio and its wiring/interconnects. Thanks!

Nice tour - thanks. You showed an Aux Tx - I think a BE unit, but I didn't notice any Tx line switch to change between the main and back-up Txs. Did I miss it?

Great OPTIMOD 8200 !

Great tour! And, btw, I can see you have a big problem with bugs and spiders 'cause you have a ready Raid sprey at hand... 😉 Thanks for sharing, *Cheers!*

cool stuff! always wanted to see what makes one of them thar radio towers do the waves! :)

The base is only holding the pin the guide tower sits on. Below grade you have a block of concrete that equals the downward force of the tower. So it could be a 5x5x10 block or bigger depending on the soil and bedrock.

Great tour it was very interesting. Can I how do you get internet for all the networking equipment out there?

Great

Nice set up onmia one a good processor in time you might get a onmia 9

Cool. Something about a radio transmission site for FM.

When was the last time the air filter on the transmitter was cleaned? That hut if filthy!

The APC UPS battery should not be flashing like that -- there may be something wrong with it.

Thanks for the video. Wouldn’t the equipment give off enough heat so that you would not need to run a heater?

Hi TV Jay why did they not use Hard line to the Gen set instead of just soft copper on the blocks is not good if ice falls off the tower and cuts the gas line open. How is the tower grounded not for RF, But for lightning strikes. I worked in radio for 10 years had fun fixing things. The tower was so well grounded that never had problems even in bad weather and lightning. It had 4 inch copper straps coming off all 4 sides and screen welded to each copper strap. It had a day time Gates 5000 watt Am and a 3kTube Harris transmitter.

Curious about the current state of the art in transmitters- I would guess this is solid state? I do way different electronics now- not sure of the state of the art for broadcast transmitters. I will try and check out other videos to see if you get into this. In the 80's I volunteered in the engineering department of our university station- that was a tube transmitter, fed by a BE exciter. Moved to another university station (volunteer CE there for nearly 10 years FWIW), and our transmitter was just a BE exciter at 10W.

How often do you get to the transmitter site? You also have a set of monitoring gear (mod monitors, etc) at the studio?

Thank you for the video. I was wondering, what might be the gain factor of your antenna?

Great tour! Does the transmitter run on 110V AC? Or something beefier?

Dude! U really need to clean the air filter :)

They used to have a C-band feed, I am guessing either NPR or they actually had a lease on a C-band frequency and an uplink at their studio

I hope by now you have cleaned it up. The transmitter is full with dust, as is the other equipment. Other then that it is a standard setup.

Can you please make more content like this

Wow! Thank u for the tour. What is the range or coverage of this setup?

5:17 Good heavens, is THAT what your dummy load looks like?! :O It's enormous! Is it just a big tank of mineral oil with an enormous resistor inside like the ones we use in ham radio? Or are these beefy industrial ones more complex than that?

Omnia for the win!

Hey! I’m have been getting into the radio hobby for the past couple of years, and I want to ask you a couple of questions. I currently run on an 25 Watt, tiny little LPFM station, and I’ve been doing many experiments on it. First of all, I’m thinking of running RDS, but in case I do it wrong, I don’t want to waste $300. My transmitter has an RS232 port. I want to know if it is possible to convert RS232 into MPX? I have been looking and found a stereo encoder, and an RDS system for just around $300. Would you think RDS would work if I convert RS232, into MPX, run that to the stereo encoder, and then to the RDS system and loop back? Please comment and I’ll show you the equipment I’m looking at.

What is the way to measure the mod? Is it a test tone you have to use?

Would you have an installation plan showing the synoptic of the system?

The big juice would have to come off if I was even around. I'd clean it for free. Can't stand dirty gear.. One of my defects I guess. 😂

Hi. Can I ask, the thicc pipe is grounded and contains a coax inside? And also, the 40kW amp is on the mast? Thank you.

Hello. I have a question please. One of the local FM stations here in Tampa is run out of the University, and I notice the radiators are placed halfway up the antenna. Why not mount them at the top? Thank you.

KZfaq challenge: find every radio frequency and vibe to them all simultaneously ☺️😊👌🤪🤘😆

@TVJAY - I have always been wondering why thieves never break into these small spaces that stands in the middle of nowhere. All this expensive equipment would be a gold mine for them! What kind of security do you have? I can't see any cameras or alarms? I mean... All these has to be connected to the internet which means they all should have a camera equipped inside?

What would happen to the cows if they were near the tower in the event of a lightning strike? Voltage dissipates through the ground. Step potential current can go in one leg through another. Since cows have farther feet spacing they may get a bigger shock then humans. That tower would get hit for sure sooner or later. I would not wat to be standing nears the base if it got struct! I ran this question through Chat GPT and it said that danger zone could be 50 feet or more. Same thing if you are near a tree that gets hit.

I saw a cablemodem with no coax connected to it. Did you have cable service to that building at one time?

46,000 watts, I just got happy.

Hello, is there any type of equipement that can mesure the listener? thank you

tremenda estación amigo en que país es?

Sad to see the orban not in use 😢

how many amps is the electric service?

What city does this station serve ? And what frequency is it on ?

Interesting. So, I notice your using 88.3 fm, is that info correct? Also, I notice you mention 9500 mhz too. Could you dummy it up a bit for those less knowledgeable for people like me? Also, with what you mentioned about the split ac system barfing out heat due to it being winter. What? The station equipment doesn't barf out enough heat on it's own to make up that difference 😁?

Okay my question if the transmitter is in that shed how does the actual dj and radio host stream live,from where ever the dj and radio host is?

Which country is this Fm transmitter located ?

Could you please explain the dummy load antenna? Thanks

He failed to mention the tower light switching and monitoring equipment. Ron W4BIN

Wao, luarbiasa... Itu keluar berapa what powernya?

How far does a 4000 Kw transmitter reach

And can u turn that tower to be HD radio?

What does the nitrogen do?

Where is that

How do know what size or what kind of transmitter we need to get.

Can you turn the transmitter off?

Is the optimod for sale

Is the station digital

What does that big satellite dish do??