All Materials on Hand for New 3YA

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 7, 25 August 1933, Page 3

All Materials on Hand for New 3YA

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HE site of the new 8YA radio station at Gebbie’s Pass is a bustle of activity. . Twenty-two men are at work on the foundations of the new station building and. cottages are being built to accommodate the staff. Three steeplejacks are employed on the erection of the 300ft. towers. The transmitter building is to be of ferro-con-crete, with: a solid concrete floor. At present. ‘the. men are working on the tower farthest away from the

or actual transmitting station site, Fifty feet square at the base, the towers will taper gently until, at the top, they will be only two feet wide. All the steel for the job is ready on the spot. It has been imported from Australia, where each piece has been made exactly to specifications, so that the men’s task is merely to assemble it in the right. order, The building which is to be used as the garage and storeroom of the new station has been temporarily fitted up as sleeping quarters with stretcher bunks to accommodate 24 men. Part of it is partitioned off as a mess-room. while a cookhouse has also been added. The whole job is timed to. be completed in three months from its com-

ral | mencement, but in the month past a week has been lost by wet weather, so that this time may be extended.