Tacos Digest, Vol 140, Issue 9

[Chip Fetrow]

I believe this is Kenwood Country Club.  I believe it to be an AUX site for 94.7 (whatever the call sign is today, and the NEW site for WAVA-AM, 780, and a MUCH earlier AM that has been there forever.  I don’t recall the call sign, not that they stay the same today.  I recall it being near .9 MHz.

—chip

On Oct 8, 2014, at 10:39 AM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 22:55:57 -0400
> From: Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com>
> To: Mike ODELL <mo at ccr.org>
> Cc: AMRAD Tacos <tacos at amrad.org>
> Subject: Re: antenna site in Maryland near intersection of Goldsboro
> 	Road & Radnor Road
> 
> Mike ODELL <mo at ccr.org> writes:
> 
>> Off River Road inside the Beltway.
>> 
>> it's in an enclosed area on a golf course. Looks like it could be TV Tx
>> but I didn't see it well. Google shows 3 1000 gallon propane tanks
>> and what looks like a Tx shack with a cable/waveguide rack going to the tower.
>> looks to be self-supporting - no evidence of guys, esp not on a golf course.
>> At first I thought it might be a navaid for DCA but looks like more watts
>> go up the tower than would be needed for that. Maybe it's a comms 
>> ground entry point? 
>> 
>> anyway, I just saw it this afternoon and thought it pretty odd to be located
>> on a golf course among some mighty pricey digs.
>> 
>> Dropped Pin
>> near 6701 Pemberton St, Bethesda, MD 20817
>> http://goo.gl/maps/G3ZwJ
>> 
>> anyone have a clue?
> 
> Antenna site registration 1231205 - 91.4 feet high and apparently owned by the golf course.
> 
> Several Clearwire microwave paths and a passel of Montgomery County public service stuff.
> 
> Doesn't seem like a lot to see...
> 
> -r