[BC] TX shacks......horror stories

[Gary Zocolo]

I have seen some pretty bad ones....worst ones were the tiny little Sears 
shacks with a hole cut in the side for a window air conditioning unit. In 
the summer when the ac failed, there was so little ballast air in the shack 
the temp would skyrocket and throw the xmitter into thermal failure in 
minutes.

One of the most interesting ones was the Framingham tri-plex in a land sea 
container. It seemed like a lot of customizing to make a complex project 
like that work.

That was 7 years ago, perhaps Grady or Dana can tell us how that install has 
fared in its young life.

Gary Zocolo CE
Cumulus Nashville

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent Winrich" <kwinrich at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] TX shacks......horror stories


> <sarcasm>
>
> Gary, how do those Sears sheds hold up to any falling tower ice?  Are they
> so tough you dont need any ice shielding?
>
> </sarcasm>
>
> Low spot in a hog lot??????   ewwwwwwww
>
>
>
> On 2/14/07, Gary Glaenzer <glaenzer at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> What's the worst you've ever seen  ?
>>
>> I had one near here that was an old U-Haul truck body sitting on cinder
>> blocks
>>
>> wouldn't have been bad but for:
>>
>> 1) holes in the floor big enough to break a leg in
>>
>> 2) severe rodent infestation
>>
>> 3) ditto june bugs
>>
>> 4) former owner used a the claw end of a claw hammer to make openings for
>> coax's
>>
>>
>> in 2-way service around here they were fond of those $ 199 Sears 'garden
>> sheds'
>>
>> you haven't lived till you tried to service a 330-watt Micor repeater in
>> one
>> with no floor that sits in a low spot near a hog lot
>>
>>
>>
>>
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