HARTFORD RADIO HISTORY
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WTIC (AM) 1929 Technical
    The October, 1929 issue of QST magazine, an amateur radio magazine published by the American Radio Relay League in West Hartford (now in Newington) featured an extensive article about the new WTIC AM transmitter site on Avon Mountain in Avon, CT. 

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Above:  Control Desk for WTIC transmitter, 1929. Courtesy of wticalumni.com.

Above: Block diagram. Courtesy of wticalumni.com.


Courtesy of wticalumni.com.


Courtesy of wticalumni.com.


Courtesy of wticalumni.com.


Courtesy of wticalumni.com.


Courtesy of wticalumni.com.


Original 50 KW tubes.  2009 photo.


This is the original entrance to the WTIC Radio transmitter site.


Base of one of the original WTIC towers on Avon Mountain, installed in 1929.  Note the spotlight which was used to illuminate the opposite tower. 


1926 Master Control on Grove St in Hartford.

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