Our Old Transmitter

	November 20, 2001 One each Raytheon RA-1000, sitting where it had lived at the 1470 Sacramento transmitter site since being moved there from the original site in 1969. The 3-tower DA-2 phasor, that matches the Gates MW-5 (now the backup transmitter for the Nautel main hiding behind the Raytheon), is in the background. I worked for 1470 as Assistant Chief Engineer from 1978-1983 when it was KXOA .
	My wife Patti models the fabulous Raytheon. (She's 5'11") (The transmitter is 7')
	Modeling the controls.
	One inside wall.
	The other inside wall.
	Yours truly K7YXZ modelling the back of the transmitter. I would look happier, but minutes before I had to put on the warmup top to protect my arm after being stung by a wasp. Thankfully, I am only mildly allergic to wasp stings, so after applying an ice pack and taking an antihistamine, only my forearm swelled up and turned purple.
	After all the iron and the hanging chassis (plural) were removed, it was tipped onto a piano dolly and rolled to the site building's trap door. Why a trap door? Look farther down the page.
	With one real sling and a tow strap, down and out it goes by chain hoist.
	Once it got free of the building, it was rotated 90 degrees and set onto our trailer.
	Here's how and why it had to leave the building this way! Flood pictures below. That's the STL tower on the other side of the trailer.
	Patti ponders life with a 2,300 pound broadcast transmitter, that needs to be towed back to Portland.
	A slight weather complication in Yreka, CA on November 24th.
	Patti models the chains required by CalTrans, even on a 4-wheel drive van, 'cause we were towing a trailer. This is where we stopped to remove them, south of Ashland, OR.
	The transmitter sat languishing the trailer, but still wrapped up, under the new carport at the Sylvan Tower site until 12/20/01. It got got unloaded by a team of volunteers at the KXL transmitter site in January of 2002. We had carefully backed the trailer through the shop doors on the side of the transmitter building. Joel Determan K7TGZ and Gary Hilliard are ready to push it off of the trailer.
	We pushed it off of the trailer and tilted it up onto a piece of 3/4" plywood outfitted with ten 250-pound "ball transfers."
	Patti removes some of the tape covering the fragile parts.
	Mike Brown N7AXC checks it out. The head in the foreground belongs to his wife, Betty McArdle.
	In its new home, next to the 50 kW KXL Kintronic dummy load. With the ball transfers under the Raytheon, one person can move it. It is warm and cozy and waiting for my wife and I to finish rebuilding our house.