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[IRCA] ZBVI 780 Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
- Subject: [IRCA] ZBVI 780 Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
- From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:32:21 -0400
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I've gotten word construction on their new 300 foot tower has begun. In
fact, the tower is standing at about 160 feet.
The studios for ZBVI are in Road Town along Station Avenue near the Road
Town Police Station but the tower is about 1 mile down the road at Baughers
Bay. The tower is ON the beach and some of the guy wires AND some of the
ground system are IN the water.
At about 4:30 on the morning of Saturday March 9th, a drunk driver came
went off the road, coming into contact with several things including a
telephone pole and some trees. The driver also clipped some of the guy
wires for ZBVI's tower which sent it to the ground in a crumbled up mess.
The station wasn't able to sign on for Morning transmission at 6am that
morning. It took about 12 hours to lash up a temporary solution. For the
last several months, ZBVI has been operating with a 60 foot long wire
strung between two telephone using an AM transmitter loaned to them from
the Department of Disaster Management in the BVI.
ZBVI is "licensed" for 10,000 Watts but hasn't run that much power in
years. I'm told they run between 1KW at 3KW. As far as I know, stations
down there are licensed for X amount of power like the US.. but UNLIKE the
USA, if they run under it.. that's OK apparently.
I'm trying to convince the powers that be at ZBVI to run a 2 or 3 minute DX
test one night before their usual 10pm sign off.
I have pictures of the ZBVI tower collapse along with the tower work being
done. THey're on the Facebook group, "I Take Pictures Of Transmitter Sites.
Paul Walker
www.onairdj.com
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