This is an 8-Bay AXIOM® Master FM Antenna just completing final test and almost ready to be taken down, get painted and packed for shipment. The system supplied by ERI also includes a three station FM channel combiner.
This 1,000-foot tower support WLDR-FM’s ERI Model SHPX-8BCSP/LP-6C-SP Shared Aperture FM antenna. The antenna is an interleaved array made up of a high power 8-bay SHPX Series ROTOTILLER® for the analog FM signal and a low power Model LPX-7C ROTOTILLER® for the digital HD Radio™ signal. To provide additional isolation the antennas are cross polarized, the analog signal has right hand circular polarization and the digital is left hand circularly polarized. Photo courtesy of Doc Searls and can be found at flickr.
The tower pictured is a 996-foot guyed tower that supports WTCM-FM’s main antenna which is an ERI manufactured G5CPS-10AC, which is a private labelled FM antennas built for Continental Electronics. If you look carefully you can see WTCM-FM’s auxiliary antenna which is an ERI Model 300-3AE vertically polarized FM antenna at 615-feet above ground level. Photo courtesy of Doc Searls and can be found here: flickr.
This is an auxiliary AXIOM® Master FM Antenna for KBIG/104.3 (21kw), KIIS/102.7 (4kw), KOST/103.5 (10kw) and KRRL/92.3 (19kw). The antenna is a true broadband master FM antenna, this model is an 8-bay version. The array has half wave bay-to-bay spacing and has a unique feed system that is broadband over 18 MHz of the FM band. Photo courtesy of Doc Searls and can be found at flickr
This is a top mounted, elliptically polarized, UHF TRASAR® television antenna in the process of having final test data taken. All ERI top mounted television antennas are provided with dedicated climbing facilities that do not penetrate the radome. This prevents potential contamination or moisture intrusion into the antenna radome which can cause corrosion, impact electrical performance and shorten the antenna’s useful life. This also provides climbers superior access to the beacon and improves safety.
This item is an ERI Model 788A-SP High-Efficiency FM Analog/HD Digital Diplexer. ERI’s innovative All Pass™ design allows stations to operate hybrid digital with HD Radio™ power levels up to -10dBc. The All Pass Diplexer maintains high efficiency while incurring a much smaller penalty to performance than other methods currently available. The analog insertion is less than 0.35 dB, and the digital HD Radio signal loss is less than 1.4 dB with digital group delay variation less than 600 nsec and is fully compliant with the HD Radio™ FM Transmission System Specifications. The 788 is an ideal choice for FM stations that have very high FM transmitter power output requirements due to long transmission line runs and also have the desire to operate at elevated HD power levels.
The antenna elements freshly painted and with its markings added to aid in assembly at site. This is an SHPX-8AC FM antenna bound for Dallas.
An ERI Model 100A-1M-DP Directional FM Antenna packed and awaiting pick up. This antenna is for a new FM translator which will rebroadcast WVLG AM 640, licensed to Wildwood, Florida.
The ERI Model CF103 Low Power FM Group Delay Equalizer provides group delay pre-correction for FM transmitters at low level, usually between the FM transmitter’s exciter and intermediate power amplifier. The pre-correction applied offsets excess group delay variation and asymmetry that is unavoidable in FM combiner systems that include closely spaced frequencies, of 1.8 MHz or less. The CF103 has a power rating of 150 watts and provides up to one microsecond of correction across a single FM broadcast channel. ERI also has available group delay equalizers that operate at high power, which offer greater correction range and are located directly before each individual station’s combining module.
A 12-bay AL PLUS UHF television antenna in final test. This is a directional circularly polarized antenna is built for RF Channel 22 and has a wide cardioid directional azimuth pattern. All AL PLU antennas include 15-inch (381 mm) standoff brackets for mounting on poles or tower legs from 1.5-inches (35 mm) to 7.5-inches (191 mm) OD
