RenaissanceII

When I was a wee one, I and/or my brother would accompany my dad on driveabouts to check on the progress of various road projects that the Road Commission was working on.
In the process, we would pass places such as this:

This is the transmitter/tower and auxiliary studio site for Mid-Michigan's ABC station, WJRT (DT/TV). As is typical outside of the big cities, these sites tend to be in the middle of farmers fields out in BFE. (in this case near the village of Chesaning)



The x-mitter/auxiliary studio building, the stations' radome (doppler radar), sat dishes, and on the tower (Stick) itself, a few of the studio transmitter link (STL) receive points.



Further up the stick.



The top of the stick itself (the antennas). The lattice work on the side of the tower at the bottom of the picture is the stations temporary Digital antenna. The small box jutting off of the tower is a Live truck receiver. And at the top is the stations current Analog (and will be main Digital as of 2009) antenna.



I like this picture best of all, the composition of it is dumb luck amazing.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin


I Wish You Well.

shakran

and the best part is, way up on the top of that tower is an anticollision strobe light for airplanes. Every once in awhile the thing burns out and then a tower engineer gets to go WAY up there and change it. You should see the insurance policies for those guys.

RenaissanceII

not to mention the radiation hit they take.

__________________
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin


I Wish You Well.

shakran

Well if they're gonna be screwing around near the antenna for any length of time we flip it to low power mode, or even off if necessary. They won't be growing any third eyes on our watch