WTIC (AM) Orig. Avon Ant

 Rare picture of the two original Avon towers at night, each tower illuminated by the spotlight on the opposite tower!

    WTIC initially started broadcasting with a "T cage" antenna on top of the Grove St. studio building in downtown Hartford.
    In the late twenties they moved their transmitter to Avon Mountain in Avon.  Their first antenna at that location was a wire "T" antenna strung between two, self-supporting towers each approximately 200' tall. The towers are long gone but the foundations and center tuning house remain and are shown in the pictures below.


This was the center tuning house of the original T cage antenna. 



Original base of west self supporing tower.



The three photos above are of what remains of the base
of the original east tower.



This is where the original open wire line entered the center
tuning unit.



Two pictures of the west tower base.  Note the old spotlight which was used to illuminate the other tower.

A wide view of the original center tuning house.