Yet Another Old Perserved VTR Recording

[holmesuser01]

Back in the late 1960's, I lived in Candler, NC, about 10 miles west of Asheville, NC.

I could regularly find WIS-TV on channel 10, but only for a few minutes at a time.

We had a 50 foot tower with a huge fringe antenna and a rotor.

I sent a letter to WIS-TV, and they wrote me back, and were amazed that their signal made it this far, too. The letter I sent them listed the time of day, and the stuff they were playing.

Later, they sent me a letter confirming that I had indeed received their signal, from their chief engineer at their transmitter site.

After a few weeks of receiving their signal for an hour or so a day, it gradually faded away. I've never seen it again, either.

I love seeing all these old snippets of TV from the days of my youth.