After great deliberation, we have finally found a solution to safely deliver our new 500 pound transmitter to the top of Blue Hill Mountain.  It’s been a series of fits and starts looking for a solution that is safe for our equipment, people, and the mountain trail, but thanks to the generous collaboration of Blue Hill Heritage Trust, Timberline Communications (a New England outfit coordinating the helicopter transport and labor for T-Mobile), and North American Helicopter, we are approaching the finish line with this massive undertaking.

We’re already down to low power, and there is a chance that we will go off air, but as always, we will still be broadcasting over the web and app.  So bear with us, we are about to spring forth with a heck of an advancement in transmitter power, and guess what! We are proud to announce that thanks to our generous anonymous donor, we were able to support our local economy by buying a unit made in Bangor at the Nautel Maine factory.  How cool is that?  We feel grateful to have a local hub to go to if we have any issues with our infrastructure.  Hooray for WERU and the support of all those who have made this possible.  Thank you.

During a recent tour of Nautel Maine, we got permission to take this picture inside of the Bangor based factory, but we were asked not to photograph our transmitter because it’s innards were showing 🙂 The machine photographed here helps form the steel housing that the transmitter parts live in.