WRMI in Okeechobee scrambled back to service despite hurricane damage
October 13, 2017
by James Careless
Among the many victims of Hurricane Irma in September was the transmitter/antenna farm of Radio Miami International, WRMI in Okeechobee, located on a cattle ranch 40 miles inland from Port St. Lucie on Florida's Atlantic coast.
On Sunday Sept. 10, Irma's roaring winds tore across the flat plains housing WRMI's 23 antenna systems, comprising a total of 68 towers — the largest commercial shortwave radio transmission site in the United States. The hurricane-force winds snapped one of WRMI's towers in half, leaving the torn metal lattice dangling suspended in the transmission lines. A second tower was bent in half like a paperclip. Many transmission lines radiating from WRMI's central 16,000-square-foot transmitter building to the arrays also were knocked down along with the telephone poles that supported them.
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by James Careless
Among the many victims of Hurricane Irma in September was the transmitter/antenna farm of Radio Miami International, WRMI in Okeechobee, located on a cattle ranch 40 miles inland from Port St. Lucie on Florida's Atlantic coast.
On Sunday Sept. 10, Irma's roaring winds tore across the flat plains housing WRMI's 23 antenna systems, comprising a total of 68 towers — the largest commercial shortwave radio transmission site in the United States. The hurricane-force winds snapped one of WRMI's towers in half, leaving the torn metal lattice dangling suspended in the transmission lines. A second tower was bent in half like a paperclip. Many transmission lines radiating from WRMI's central 16,000-square-foot transmitter building to the arrays also were knocked down along with the telephone poles that supported them.
Additional story and photos Radio World:
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