[BC] Antenna Question

[Kevin Trueblood]

I am presuming you're wondering about the orange balls?

It's supposed to be for marking the guy wires for small planes like crop 
dusters.  We're building a new tower at a contract station (next to I-55 
just south of Lexington, IL), and the county was going to require them in 
the building permit.  Although we weren't sure how the county had 
jurisdiction over it, eventually we got the building permit without the ball 
requirement.

Kevin Trueblood
Broadcast Technologist
WGLT 89.1 / 103.5
Illinois State University



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Speaking of antenna questions....

Two trips down to Decatur, Illinois and this past weekend to
Indianapolis I saw along I 55 and I 65, north of Pontiac and north of
Lebanon, Indiana....

A guyed tower perhaps 50-60' tall with orange balls around the guy
wires perhaps ten-twenty feet off the ground. At first, I thought it
might be a NDB antenna as it is about five miles north of the Pontiac
airport off of
I 55 on the east side of the road.

Does not look like there is much gear at the base of the antenna. Not
much of an antenna at the top either.

Curious to know what this is for.

Next trip to Decatur in a few weeks, I may take a walk though the
farmer's field.

It is all out in the open field and several hundred feet off the hi-way.

Russel L. O'Toole, P.C.
R&M Consulting
31 Ponderosa Drive
Romeoville, Illinois 60446