Channel 42 on Mt. Diablo, CA (was: Re: [BC] P.O.ed...)

[Alan Kline]

------ At 02:34 AM 1/26/2006 -0500, The Most Honourable Jeff Johnson wrote: -------
>WOW! Beautiful pix! Scary site! Never snows, I assume.

Very, very seldom...but, the antenna is equipped with a de-icer, and we used it
at least several times per winter.  Lots of moisture coming off the ocean, and at
that elevation (3550', plus about 80' for the tower, IIRC) it could ice.

>Prettiest view in my personal experience was hanging a translator antenna 
>on a tower in Mackinaw City, MI. The bridge and the straits need a towering 
>viewpoint.
>
>There is a pizza parlor in town with a museum of the building of the bridge 
>upstairs. Waiting for a pizza was never more interesting!

That's got to be neat...  I watched a show on cable a few months ago about the
building of the Mackinaw Bridge--I think it was a "Modern Marvel" on the History
Channel.  That took some nerves of steel to build, that's for sure...

ak