[BC] RE: TV tower kills birds

SHAFFER, RANDY L RandyShaffer
Fri Oct 7 01:31:00 CDT 2005


Linc-Reed Nickerson wrote -
(snip)
>Back in the days of manned TV transmitters I lived at the WOWK transmitter
>in Huntington, WV.  We had two towers, 800 and 1049 ft.  We would see
>evidence of bird strikes, but only a few at the height of the migration
>season.

Okay, I'm seeing a trend here, towers in Binghamton, WOWK, WLYH. Maybe the birds were just targeting Gateway Communication towers? 

Randy Shaffer
WLYH-TV/WHP-TV
Harrisburg, PA


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