The W233AA translator serves the Winchester area from a site located just behind the
National Fruits Products Co. (White House) plant on Fairmont Avenue. The tower is actually on
White House property and is not to be confused with the neighboring towers to the west.
The tower site is on a hill near Fort Milroy. The site may have been used as a lookout during
the War between the States. This photo shows the White House plant from the tower site.
We share the site with WAZT television. Here is a view of the transmitter building and the tower.
From this tower we cover most of Winchester, bounded on the west by Rt 37 and the east by Opequon Creek with only 17 watts out of our transmitter.
Much of Winchester proper is shadowed by terrain and cannot receive our 90.7 signal clearly.
To gain a good signal to retransmit, we use a 9 element yagi antenna. The enlargement also shows our two crossed yagi antennas, which generate a special fill-in pattern.
There's not much to a translator. Here is the entire station in a rack.
