Montanavision, Inc.
Full Service Client Since 2005.
Connoisseur Media
KPBR, Joliet, Montana.
FCC Facility ID:164107.
Frequency: 105.9 MHz.
ERP: 100 kW (H & V).
The KEMC transmitter site, south of Billings, ASR 1000802.
Composite image of the KEMC tower, showing the 10-bay ERI antenna at the top for KEMC.
The new Joliet FM antenna will be mounted below it.
Single-phase electrical service to the site. There is one 37.5 KVA transformer for each transmitter.
This site has a good view of Billings.
Yellowstone Public Radio Director of Engineering Randall Rocks checks the meter readings on
his Continental transmitter at the site, 26-Sept-2005.
At one time, KEMC shared this site with Billings FM station KRSQ. Since KRSQ moved to another site, the second Phasemaster sits patiently, waiting for the new Connoisseur Joliet
transmitter.
The old duct work for the KRSQ transmitter will also fit the new Connoisseur Joliet transmitter.
This site is also used as an STL relay point for one of Clear Channel's FM stations.
Moving day was January 19, 2006, when Baker Transfer & Storage brought the new transmitter
to the site.
First in was the 1500 pound high voltage power supply.
Inside of the high voltage power supply.
Dick unwraps the transmitter cabinet and prepares to remove it from the pallet.
Just like moving a refrigerator, only more expensive, the crew from Baker eases the
transmitter through the door.
The new Harris HT25CD stands inside the transmitter building, awaiting the day it will go on the air.
Inside the back of the HT25CD.
Low pass filter in place on the output of the transmitter, temporarily
supported by ropes.
ERI 8-bay FM antenna, still in shipping boxes.
Apprentice Kevin Judd helps the crew from Baker Transfer + Storage to unload the
spool of 3 inch Heliax.
The crew from Colton Tower has assembled the antenna elements to the
inter-bay line and attached the mounting brackets. An inch-and-a-half of snow
had fallen the night before, 27-May-2006.
Colton himself feeds the 3 inch coax up the tower.
It was a sunny day when the antenna was installed, the golden ERI roto-tiller elements
gleaming under a cloudless blue Big Sky, 10-Feb-2006.
This page updated 14-Mar-2016.
