This picture is of the WWUH transmitter building on Avon Mountain, 40 years before WWUH came on the air. The building was originally used as the center tuning house for WTIC AM and in the picture above it can be seen sitting between the two original AM towers.
Early, 1971, air studio
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The first air board
Bob Katz and John Anderson preparing for a live broadcast from Suissman Lounge. 1975
Engineers Charlie Allen and Jon Anderson supervise live broadcast from the Hartford Civic Center, center court, 1976. L-R: Charlie Allen, John Anderson, Dave Parsons, Mimi Spillane.
Dave Gardiner adjusting an antenna on the Gengras tower, 1981
Gengras STL rack, 1979
JR on top of the same tower, 1980
1981 picture of the transmitter
Transmitter site on Avon Mountain. 1982 photo.
Temporary mixing and recording set up for live broadcast of the band "Holding Pattern" from Lincoln Theater. Engineer Dave Gardiner is in the top photo, Dave Viveiros in the middle picture, from 1984.
WWUH's first antenna on Avon Mountain, the three objects in the upper left.
WWUH Transmitter shack on Avon Mountain, 2007
A view only an engineer could love, looking up the old 90' GSU STL tower
Engineer Ken Kalish, 1971
Engineering Advisor Ed Nelson supervises assembly of new antenna, 1988.
STL Site
WRCH's engineer Lee Steele helps repair an STL cable
on Avon Mountain. 1981.
Ecom members getting their hands dirty (and getting Poison Ivy) at the tower site while they help dig up a faulty line.
L-R, Tanya Weiman, Allison Masloe, Stuart Werner, Grant Miller and Alan Livermore.
Dave Viveiros takes a break at the last Fiddle Contest of the eighties.
Engineer Jim McGivern, 1977
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
The studio got a new, 100kw, emergency power generator in 1998 with enough fuel for well over two weeks operation during a power failure
Engineer Chuck Dube in the old Tech Room in Gengras
WWUH Engineers Larry Titus (top) and Steve Berian (bottom) being interviewed by Grant Miller at the 20th Anniversary picnic in 1988.
Engineer Dave Gablas
Upper: Newly renovated recording studio. 1993.
Lower: Master Mixer Dave Gardiner during Folk Next Door II
Top: Engineer Dave Vivieros, 1993
Bottom: Engineer Albert H, 1994
Gengras tower
Chuck Dube, Chris Marti and Dave Viveiros
Chris Larsen - IT Director
Chuck Dube mixing Folk Next Door
New campus generators
Transmitter site, 1982
Above: Its All Live broadcast.
Lower: Chris Heerema and Chris Larsen, 2001.
Live broadcast of Fireworks from Rockwell Country Club
in West Hartford
Chris Larsen and Kevin Lynch
1985 New England Fiddle Contest in Pope Park.
Upper: Dave Gardiner
Lower: JR and host John Merino
1985 air studio, no CD player yet!
Production racks, 1982
Engineer Bonnie Hast, 1999
New antenna being installed, 1995
Studio Generator
Chris Larsen engineering a Bushnell Park jazz broadcast.
STL Rack, 2005
Engineer Chris Heerema, 2003
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Engineers prepare to remove the radioactive core
from the WWUH transmitter on Avon Mtn.
