KCBS Transmitter Site

A Little History

KCBS Transmitter Catwalks KCBS Transmitter Tower #3 Tuning House and Counterpoise

The first picture is taken from the roof and shows the catwalks leading out to Tower One, on the left, and Tower Two on the right. Each catwalk, measured from the central hub to the tower, is about 400 feet long and about five and a half feet high. The catwalks keep us out of the mud when we need to get to the tower during the winter and also protect us from angry cows during the summer. You can see them massing by the tower two catwalk waiting for an unwary engineer to fall off. In the meantime they are keeping themselves amused by scratching against the barbed wire attached to the catwalk that is put there to keep them from amusing themselves by scratching against the catwalk.

In the second picture we are looking at Tower Three. The metal building is known as a Tuning house or Dog House. I prefer the latter. Each dog house contains a matching network to couple RF energy from the transmission lines to the antenna and isolation coils for monitoring the antenna array. The two silver donuts at right angles to each other at the base of the tower make up the lighting transformer for the tower lights.

Enough of the outside stuff, let's look at what's going on inside with the rebuild.


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Questions or comments about the tour?
Contact Dave Wigfield at
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Updated 01-14-08

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