Power up the radio transmitter

[dedtel36]

I need to power up a radio transmitter, but i am missing aluminium and nuclear material to build build the power generator. What the hell do i do?

[A Simple Pigeon]

get aluminum and nuclear material, for starters

[Psycold]

I built a generator and put it right next to the transmitter, then used wire to connect them both, however it doesn't seem like the transmitter is working. Did you ever figure this out?

[Alexandria38]

I am supplying 12 power when it says the radio transmitter requires 10 and I can't activate it. Has anyone figured this out?

[Psycold]

So I have all the supplies to make the biggest generator so I can power up this damn transmitter...but it doesn't let me build it like the other ones. No idea what to do and this game doesn't give you any hints or help.

[Shahadem]

Why do you need nuclear material to power a radio tower? A diesel engine produces enough electricity for a radio tower.

[Psycold]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

Why do you need nuclear material to power a radio tower? A diesel engine produces enough electricity for a radio tower.

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It's a prebuilt transmitter tower that you are supposed to get running right after a boss battle, I don't think it's the same as a radio tower you can build but maybe I'm wrong...the whole building system is a mess and they don't explain anything properly. It let me build a generator right next to it and I even attached wires between the two but it still says I need to activate it and going up to it and pressing activate doesn't work.

[Alexandria38]

Apparently if something requires 10 power, you have to have a power source which alone produces that much power connected to it. Having 3 of the generators that supply 3 power each connected to the radio, which requires 10, doesn't work. You have to build the third generator and connect it with wires to the radio.

[Scream]

A couple more pieces to the puzzle:

There's a switch on the back of it that by default is set to "off" I switched it on.

It also says that it requires 10 power AND a settler.

Now, I have the switch set to on, but when I tried to assign a settler it said "This Resource cannot be assigned to this NPC"

And my character still just says "this looks like a powerful transmitter." When I activate it.

[The_Pastmaster]

I powered it up and some guy came over and started using it.

[Badzy]

Attach a wire to the power conduit on radio tower itself AND the radio transmitter! I done this and worked for me right away, hope this helps!

[Tossy]

built 2 medium generator. attached wire between generators. then attach one of it to the tower.

[Kraigdankk]

I'm with jmall, have everything but can't assign a settler I get "this resource cannot be assigned to this npc", my dude keeps says "this looks like a powerful transmitter" I talk to Preston and he says "let's worry about getting the radio tower working first". Everything is on but no one to work it. And way to far just to just load a old saved game.

[Psycold]

I did what was mentioned above at it worked...I created two generators that created 5 power each and put them right next to the tower, then connected wires from the generators to the tower and it allowed me to proceed.

[Datsikkid]

So i have two "Large Generators" within the walls of the castle all connected to supplelines which are connected to difference objects (lights, water, turrets). I managed to turn the transmitter on juat after the boss battle and for some reason it decided to turn back off. Now im told to throw the flare but i can't turn the transmitter back on. I've looked at it and the icon when hovered over indicates that i have 10 power to the transmitter. Nothing seems to help. Throwing a flare is a waste if i dont have that transmitter turned back on

[Datsikkid]

(Spoiler) do you think taking the fusion core from the barracks would glitch this out and be the cause of why so many of us have tried to do everything and it still doesnt work?