The "Original Frame
Building" referred to above was the home of WMI from its founding
in the mid-1930s until the new WMI building was constructed in 1941.
Same as the
top photo but without the annotations. These photos were taken from 100
ft. level of the 285 ft. high north VHF tower. These VHF towers were erected in 1953.
This is the south VHF tower
looking south from the 100 ft. level of the north VHF tower.
This tower was back in the woods at least 1000 ft. from the WMI
building.
Mark Karney comments: "The building at the base of the south tower
also contained the MF/HF receiver front ends. A long wire
antenna ran south from this building into the woods. This kept the
receiving antenna as far away as possible from the transmitting
antennas. WMI also had a similar remote receiver site on Oak
Point Road in Lorain about a mile or so west of the Meister road
station. In both cases the IF from each receiver strip (one
per channel) was sent down a conventional phone line (I think it was
around 50 kHz.) to further amplification and detection in electronics
in the rack at the main station. I think the switching between the
Meister Rd. and the Oak Point receivers was automatic based on signal
strength."
