That's me, up on the back side near the top, summer of 1992, doing some maintenance work to the tower for WMMT in Whitesburg, Kentucky. WMMT serves a large portion of Eastern Kentucky, Southwestern Virginia and portions of West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina.
This antenna system, along with a new transmitter, was installed by BESBD in 1985.
A complete rebuild of the antenna system and transmitter plant was completed in 1995.
The old antenna is now mounted below the main antenna, and the WXKQ-FM antenna is mounted up near the top. Here's what it looks like now:
And the view west from the adjacent WIFX-FM tower:
The tower straddles the Pine Mountain ridge, 3450 feet above sea level, and on a clear day you can see Cumberland Gap, about 70 miles west.
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