[BC] Highway Promotion

[Mike McCarthy]

Being anonymous can be very dangerous too. As a rule, I place a sign with 
the station's calls, street address, and contact phone number at the 
gate.  Thus in an emergency, the EMS/fire/police can have a good reference 
on which to locate the site/building and to contact the station.

I seem to recall the FAA frowns upon the placement of anything but 
obstruction marking lights on the tower.  In certain cases, the FAA asked 
the station to remove the call letter signs placed on the towers.

Now having said that, there is a trucking firm in St. Cloud, MN. who has a 
300+ ft. tower on their lot.  They run strings of lights up about 150 ft. 
to create a LARGE cone/Christmas tree effect from the tower.  At the top of 
the cone, they light a very large star....which is left mounted on the 
tower all year.  Just not turned on during the off-months.

MM

At 10:41 AM 2/16/2007 -0500, Rich Wood wrote
>------ At 04:42 AM 2/16/2007, Robert Meuser wrote: -------
>
>>I would take that as a matter prudent engineering.  Radio stations are 
>>too much of a target without hanging out a big sign that makes the target 
>>more specific. I have always made it a priority to build transmitter 
>>sites to be as anonymous as possible.
>
>I've noticed that many stations that had prominent signs, either neon on 
>the tower or wooden, have removed them. I have a 50Kw site a few miles up 
>the road and it looks like a juicy target. The satellite dishes are out in 
>the open and there's no gate or fence around the site. At night the only 
>lighting is on the towers. The area is sparsely populated. No one would 
>notice until the transmitter was disconnected and on a flatbed truck miles 
>away with the equipment securely covered.
>
>Rich
>
>
>Rich Wood
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