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Thursday September 27th, 2007 @ 8:58pm

City News

I shot these approximately a year ago, for some reason, I never got around to uploading them until now.  The CJAM Antenna is located on what you’d consider the 12th floor of Laurier Hall at the University of Windsor.  The transmitter room is on the mechanical floor (11th).

Laurier Hall (from uwindsor.ca).  Antenna is a 3 story tower extending from the roof.

 

The transmission equipment is housed within a cabinet, similar to a rack structure for computer servers.

The room was tall, and poorly lit.  Unfortunately some of these shots didn’t turn out so well, my flash was just not powerful enough.

Transmitter modulation units; the unit on the bottom is a filter for the nitrogen cooling system.

Close up..

Seems the transmitter was not operating at full power..

Frequency switch!!  Looks easily changeable; not something you’d want to touch without CRTC permission though.

Behind the unit.. tubes, hoses and gauges for the cooling system.

A table next to the transmitter had a neatly piled stack of manuals.

The CJAM Transmitter Log

..and lastly, within the pages of the log!  Some of these entries date back to 1998, with updates that seem to be 20 days or so apart.

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  • mikebeauchamp

    VERY nice dude.. a little part of the station that even most people involved in the station (myself included) never get to see.

    In CJAM’s vault, there’s also the OLD antennas that were used before CJAM got it’s power increase.

    When I first started DJing there with some friends, there was a rack of other equipment in the engineering room.. which we thought at the time was the broadcast equipment. One of the units was a simple FM tuner, set to 91.5FM and we assumed this was the device used to set what frequency to broadcast on.. so the whole night we tempted eachother to turn it to broadcast overtop of 89X, but never did.

  • westerntragedy

    Yeah there are some wicked cool areas at the U that I’d love to investigate. Apparently Prince of Wales school is being used as storage for years old things from the university’s glorious days (er, im not too sure about that expression).

    Working at Erie Hall before, I learned that the under-area of the large lecture hall 1120 is completely storage, with a 30 foot drop to the bottom from the doors, but it’s locked and alarmed..

    Another floor down, the film studio.. I went for a Summer Discovery film course there when I was a kid, and they had some HUGE storage rooms for sets and all kinds of props.

    I’d really like to get into the tunnels like you did. When working in housekeeping, I had keys for the tunnels, but then I heard some negativity about surveillance cameras at the entrances. Guess I chickened out/didn’t want to jeopardize my employment.

    The same summer I did the film course, we shot some scenes in the tunnels. We walked all the way from the Central Refrigeration Plant at the river to the Physical Plant near 7/11. I wish there was a map somewhere online..

    Last thing in my rambling, the basement of Electa Hall was apparently a morgue at one point, the cold lockers are still there but are used for year-to-year storage; things like bedframes and furniture for dorm rooms. Down the hall from that area was “Hell’s Kitchen”; back when Electa was a catholic residence, their main food outlet was an asbestos filled cafeteria on the south end of the building.

    Ahhh the U is a real treasure chest.

  • mikebeauchamp

    I’m sure you’ve seen the pics from some of my explorations at the U:
    http://mikebeauchamp.com/images/index.php?cat=15

    Shoot me an email or add me to msn, and I’ll show you the map I’ve made of the tunnels.. maybe you can help me add to it, it’s incomplete thus far.

    A few of the things you mention definitely sound new to me, but a lot of them I’ve been in, like the studio, etc. The university is fucking great for exploring, and having cool shit, and throwing away cool shit, etc.. etc. I’d really like to do more exploring at the university, and I know a few people who would be interested in helping as well.

    Mike

  • hey_joe42

    you’d think there’d be more equipment and all.
    I know guitarist with more rack units in their guitar equipment.
    But then again I don’t get radio transmitting.

  • anonymous

    Do these tunnells connect to Assumption church?

    Is it true back in the day dead people were baried below the Church?

    Do you know what they are doing to the outside of the church now??

  • westerntragedy

    I know that there is a basement under the church, catacombs, etc. Mike would know more about those than I, I believe he made a visit there before. (www.mikebeauchamp.com)

    As for the outside of the church, they are spending some dollars on restoration work for the exterior brick. Also I believe they’ve been working on re-roofing the entire Assumption Church/University complex.

  • anonymous

    Thanks..Im new to Campus…Do you know if that church is open during the week??

    Whats the purpose of that little building with the garages thats behind the church?? It’s such a short building…That looks very out of place…

  • westerntragedy

    Ah, that is the Assumption Church Rectory (minister’s house). I’m fairly sure the church is always open. I work at the U on Sundays, and I know for a fact that there is mass at 8AM and 11AM on Sundays. The church gets a hearty amount of use during the week too, many funerals and such.

  • anonymous

    Awesome thanks!

    Must be an interesing place for the minister to live…Considering its not only next to the bridge…but also the student center….Must be some nosy nights for sure…doesnt seam like they would get much privicy…But I guess the Church was there first.