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Mr. Bill's Area 10
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Where is Area 10? Somewhere between Area 51 and The Twilight Zone. I make videos about various things that I have an interest in such as hiking, camping, and exploring from forest to desert and sometimes the equipment needed to do it with. Interested in the old, the abandoned, urban decay, prospecting for naturally occurring radioactive ores, abandoned mines, geiger counters, various electronics, cameras , 4x4, navigation, etc., etc. So if you like this kind of stuff, please subscribe.
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Testing Radium Springs Water
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Testing water sample from Radium Springs for radioactivity.
Radium Springs near Albany, Georgia
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A visit to Radium Springs where the water has been found to contain the element Radium. Remains of old 1920s resort that was built around the springs. We collected a water sample from main spring for testing. Enjoy!
The Unseen
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Short cinematic film. Creepy, ominous. I used Sony FX 30 and edited with DaVinci Resolve18.
Abandoned Uranium Mine, Radioactive Mi Vida Mine
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Exploring another abandoned Uranium Mine. Link to mine explorers photos of deep interior of mine. www.undergroundexplorers.com/moab1.htm
Train Station of Dread
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Found Footage of old analog tape estimated to be 25 to 28 years old. Not high-definition tape. Is in old 4:3 aspect picture ratio. Tape probably has some damage from attic heat during storage. Obviously an abandoned and very creepy old train station. Music credits: 1. Music with Shakar 2. Vivek Abhishek 3. Audiolist Productions All can be found on RUclips.
Snorkeling at Panama City Beach, Florida
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Snorkeling at St. Andrew State Park, PCB. Easy to get to rock jetty located at the channel entrance to St. Andrew Bay. This is the bay side. Water conditions can be either crystal clear to pretty murky depending on tides, wind, current, etc. This day would be about medium clarity. No background music so you can hear the fish sounds. Be sure to watch to the end to see the jellyfish and hermit cr...
Detect Radiation with a Scintillator
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Building and testing of a scintillator for detecting gamma radiation
Pith Helmet Adventures
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Bring back the pith helmet. Joys of the vintage pith helmet.
Delicate Arch 420 at Arches National Park
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Hiking up to Delicate Arch in mid summer. Shorter version of a previous video for a quicker view. Hits the highlights without so much of actual trail walking.
One Day in Savannah, Georgia
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We took a open air trolley tour around the Historic District of Savannah. We went with Old Town Trolley Tours. For one fee you can ride all day and get off at various stops, walk around, explore, then get back on the next trolley. It would take several days to see everything, so this is a sample had in one day. No narration on this video, just enjoy the ride just like you were there
Uranium Drive In
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Vintage Drive In theater sign on Main Street in Naturita, Colorado and story of how it came to be.
Utah Mountain Drive
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Coming down LaSal Loop Road from Mill Creek, ending almost to Ken's Lake Campground which is just off Hwy 191 going into Moab. Sorry for dirty windshield.
Oowah Campground Road
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Scenic drive on a dirt road through an Aspen Forest, beginning where pavement ends at LaSal Loop Road and ending at Oowah Lake campground. Located a few miles south of Moab, Utah/
Light and Shadow in the Forest, Third Test of FX 30
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Light and Shadow in the Forest, Third Test of FX 30
FX 30 Cinema Line Camera, Second Test Run
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FX 30 Cinema Line Camera, Second Test Run
Inexpensive Handle for Sony FX30 Cinema Line Camera
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Inexpensive Handle for Sony FX30 Cinema Line Camera
Gloomy Winter Woods, First Test of Sony FX30 Cinema Line Camera
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Gloomy Winter Woods, First Test of Sony FX30 Cinema Line Camera
Old Farmhouse Radio Station in Middle of Nowhere
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Old Farmhouse Radio Station in Middle of Nowhere
Abandoned Famous Fast Food Restaurant
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Abandoned Famous Fast Food Restaurant
It has been years since I hiked that area. Thanks for exploring and sharing.
I have to think the station moved to another building and this stayed as the transmitter site. There are FM antennas at the top of the tower. This would be a great location to house a ham radio station.
Just a comment about the horn on the end of the building. Most likely an alarm horn for the security system
Best vacation i ever had!!!!!
Thanks for watching!
Just drove by this yesterday and was curious so i typed it in youtube and your video came up! Thanks! Subscribed
Thanks so much!
They where first developed in the Philippines.
You are correct, Sir. Thanks for watching!
The old tower is still home to WTVY-FM. so when your at the Site looking up there should be an FM antenna on that tower the house house some part of the FM transmitter . so this location thought the building is decaying technition must be out there mantaining the tower and equipment all the time .
Fascinating stuff. Look forward to seeing more radiation experiments.
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching! More stuff coming.
Awesome video Mr. Bill enjoyed
Well conducted Mr. Bill
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Bill! We were there on haystack the other day and there are fences on either side of that road... was that the case when you were there? Are you prospecting off of haystack rd?
We were on County Rd 23 near the intersection of Hwy 605 which runs up from Grants. I think Haystack runs into 23. It’s all dirt road and it is fenced but I was told by a guy that has been there many times that the part we were on is BLM land. Apparently it’s okay to fence BLM land to keep the cattle in but the public has access. Just close gates when entering or leaving. Good luck! Thanks for watching.
Those antenna towers would be great to mount my Ham radio antenna beams on!🤠👍🎙⚡️
Broadcast Engineer. There are a lot of abandoned stations like this and more coming as local stations go network. Originally studios would sometimes be with the transmitter like this was. Back in the day the transmitters and associated equipment required constant monitoring and servicing which is why I suspect many went off the air at night. Never mind the tube using a small neighborhood worth of power. We still use tubes in some transmitters but they only require checking up on from time to time. The solid state stuff is slowly taking over and don't really even need an engineer anymore as it's smart enough to tell you what's wrong. In the case of a lot of radio stations I know and done the changover they go network and all that is left is a rack of equipment at the base of the tower being fed by a sat dish and/or an internet connection. Usually by that time the studios have been allowed to languish so are often full of old equipment thats only worth salvage to other engineers needing it to maintain other old studios and thus gets abandoned. We try to save the old stuff when we can but sometimes aren't able/allowed to. Makes me sad really and wish I was around for the heyday of the local stations being the social hub of the town. I heard stories from my mentors about how awesome it was. The studios that are left... just ghosts and memories now sometimes you can feel the vibe it had. Good luck and safe exploring.
I remember very well when I was a kid, when the television station shut down late at night or early morning, the station would put up a test pattern, one test pattern I remember was black and white, round with an Indian head wearing a huge feathered head dress like an Indian Chief, there were also pie shaped slices some were a black some were white and there were numbers and letters printed on the test pattern. As a matter of fact, you can Google television test patterns and see what I am describing, some of the newer test patterns were colored, I think the colored ones were to test the stations color guns, there are three main colors used in the analog television stations, red,blue and green. Anyways, cool video and thanks for sharing this with us.🇺🇸😏👍
It’s sad how the urban culture of tagging and vandalizing is everywhere!
It was originally a Hardees that was converted to a Wendy's, great find!!!
Good observation. The outside design seems to be the way many Hardee’s used to look. Thanks for watching!
@@bltc11 There is an Arby's in Fostoria, Ohio that was a former Hardees, just like this design, a step futher on the back side of the building had a gable roof, that from Burger Chef. So, one building with three generations of branding.,
that nice place there, Jee I wish i had that old place. be great for ham radio station, nice wish I had that place id be so happy. thanks video ve4akf
Thanks for watching!
I noticed a lot of Privet. I hate Privet!!!
1200s are low power stations they go off the air at night or do something with their antenna
This is ao cool!
It's a shame the property isn't kept up better.
As for that wire spool, I wonder if it was for the coax going up the tower? You see, for am AM station, the entire tower is the antenna. AM runs on lower frequency or longer wavelengths and the height of the tower matches that wavelength. More efficient for transmitting that signal. However, if the transmitter was changed to the FM band, then FM is sent on higher frequency than the AM band which means shorter wavelength. ( Yes, higher frequency means shorter wavelength). Those antenna on top of the tower are matched to that wavelength.. Shorter wavelength, shorter antenna. Therefore, the tower itself in not the antenna but mearly the hoist and that spool of cable connnects tha transmitter to the antennas up there! I hope this explains things in case some one may not understand that. Laws of physics!
It is presently transmitting an FM signal from another station so that would be right in line with what you said. Good info, thanks for watching!
Looks very much like KDAN-AM near St. Paul, MN did some decades ago. It went off the air in the early 80s, I believe. My friend and I went there and noticed a lot of the studio equipment was still there all racked up and seemingly, ready to go back on the air. Don't know why they went off. The station was set among the cow pastures.
Perfect property for a ham ❤ will love to renovate that
Nice property to build a house!😊
I'd like to see what, if any, old equipment is inside, like old broadcast turntables and such.
I couldn’t see anything through window. Thanks for watching
I remember seeing The House of Blood and the Beast that ate Minnesota at this Drive-In. Both good movies
Sounds like a great double feature!
Thanks for the tour, Bill. WGHM out of Nashua, N.H. has a similar tower at 900 AM. It's 900 watts and also shares homes via a multiplex system with 1590 WSMN. AM 900 has a music oldies format, and is locally owned with no commercials. I believe they run small power under 100 watts after dusk. Birds like to perch at the top of the stick.
Long live AM stations! Thanks for watching.
The fence is illegal. You should never have been able to walk up to the base of that tower. Towers must be fully fenced per FCC rules, especially since there is an active station using that tower.
I traveled through the area a few weeks ago and noticed the back area was now fully fenced in. Thanks for watching.
It’s 😞
Spool was for the Helix coax that feeds the FM antenna. You need a big bend radius.
I wonder what the daily (24 hr) cost would be to broadcast am from that place?
not counting staff, the largest bill is usually electricity, then rent or bank payments, then property taxes. From what I see here, they have several AC systems so that's in addition to running the transmitter gear. Might be a couple of grand a month for power. Might be less, depending on the local utility rate.
Music format: I am a man of constant sorrow I've seen trouble all my days I bid farewell to ol' Kentucky The place where I was born and raised
Strange that the gate would be left open with that tower still in place. The tower appears to be maintained and, something is in that building with the air conditioner on. The call letters WTVY is still active station, owned by the same company that owns TV stations in my area (Eastern NC).
"the spirit of radio"
I worked at an AM station thst wasn't quite that remived from civilization, but it was alone out in some fields. The building was wood frame up on cedar piera. It was my first commercial annnouncer job and I'll never forget it.
Sounds like the isolated lighthouse station in the movie, The Fog. Thanks for watching
Surprised you can get that close to a working tower.
FM broadcast stations use antenna's mounted on top of their towers. AM stations use the entire tower itself as the antenna, this is why you cannot touch an AM station tower that's on the air, but it's safe to touch an FM tower while it's on the air because the tower is not carrying any RF current.
Reminds me of abandoned palace in Singapore which was covered by forest trees. 😱
I install security system for a living. That may be a siren speaker. That is how/where we would install one.
That is true but could also be a speaker. I grew up close to a radio station and I used to hear music playing sometimes. Who would hear a security alarm out in the middle of know where? Maybe he can get someone who owns the house to give a tour.
@chrisgarrett9619 I've been installing for many years (45) and many customers want them outside. I tell them not to but the customer is always right.
Thanks for posting this video.
I agree thanks for posting!
Art Bell's spirit might be around there.
What surprises me is the local thieves haven't destroyed the place yet for a few dollars worth of copper.
Good question. It seems like the copper theft thing might be subsiding compared to a couple of years ago.
@@bltc11in Florida you must strip the wire by hand or prove it's yours with a receipt where you got it from. They don't accept burned copper.. I guess they could melt it down into something else but then another expense to get rid of the scrap metal. 73
Thank you for sharing some local radio history
My pleasure! Thanks for watching.
Caution walking around the tower and lines - electrical hazards and high RF pouring out of that antenna into your cranium 😆
Luckily, the frequencies of AM radio (540 kHz - 1.7 MHz) are orders of magnitude lower than what is considered ionizing (~900 THz).
@@scratchpad7954 being an FM station these days the radiation from the antenna would be near the top, not the whole tower
@rupe53 That is true. The wavelength of AM is such that the entire tower becomes the transmitting antenna. However, I, too, could see the actual transmitting antenna array for the FM station near the top of the tower. Since WBBK completed their transition to FM, that frees up more of the tower's height for serving as the transmitter facilities for other stations whose studios could share the old WBBK-AM building.
@@scratchpad7954 yeah, I picked up on that too. These days I would venture a guess that most towers have more than a single license holder because it's easy to sell extra tower space and there's always someone looking for a site that's already approved by zoning, the FCC, etc. BTW, with the advent of fiberoptic and high-speed cable, a studio can be most anywhere and remotely fed into a tower site.
good to know when the zombies come!
interesting:)
Creepy😮 you did a good job capturing this place on video
Thanks!
Are you sure this was an AM radio station tower? I have never seen an AM tower without a brown insulator at the base of the tower. Also, with AM towers, the fence around the tower would be all wood, not chain link as shown in this video. It's obvious this property lacks regular maintenance. All the vegetation around the tower and turnbuckles needs to be removed.
Shunt fed towers are Grounded at the base. By adjusting the point the wire attaches to the tower the Impedance can be adjusted to 50 Ohms.
@@billbrown1476 - what about the chain link fence around an AM tower then? That is a liability. I also noticed that there is no isolation transformer for the FM station.
The tower is not hot at the base. So only liability without a fence is someone climbing it and falling from the tower. It should have a secured fence around it. Shunt fed towers can take the FM without an isolation transformer. FM Feedline is tied electrically to the tower.
Key word (in the video) *WAS* an AM station, now an FM station. I suspect the tower was replaced at some point.
They are cool literally and figuratively! Very nice video.
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I never heard of VOA operating within the domestic AM broadcast band. (add a zero at the end and maybe) Ron W4BIN
The speaker at the peak is most likely a Security Siren.