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

[Robert Bowe]

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My favorite was a refrigerator that was clamped to a pole that was
driven into the ground (tower) - it did have a couple of holes drilled
into it for ventilation and cinder-blocks for ballast.

Currently we have a small truck box with rohn 25 at all four corners on
the face of a cliff (of course the cliff is crumbling away) at the
entrance to a long-ago abandoned oil-shale mine (the power XFs there are
from 1944).  The cliff above it will drop some truck sized rocks in the
future, I just hope I won't be there when it happens.

Gary Zocolo wrote:
> 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
> 

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Robert Bowe, CSRE
Director of Engineering
MBC Grand Broadcasting
Grand Junction, CO
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