What piece of Woovit equipment had to be occasionally beaten with a stick in the winter?
The WUVT-FM antenna, circa 770 Watts ERP. John Lyles explains:
The GNM69 [final amplifier] delivered about 430 Watts from the single 4CX300A tetrode. Into our antenna, "770 Watts ERP from high atop Lee Hall on Washington Street on the Va. Tech campus." The antenna [left] was a BFI-2H horizontal polarized thing, with sash cord for guy wires. We used to have to go and smack the mast with a board during icing, to keep the transmitter from blowing a fuse due to high reflected power. It was no fun in the middle of the night, but anything was done to keep the Woove on the air then.
