[BC] Highway Promotion

[robertm@nyc.rr.com]

That depends on the jurisdiction and what is housed in your building.  
If the municipality is small enough, I would meet with police and fire 
and actually bring them in the building. I have done minor re-designs 
after the actual hands on fire department guys did a dry run on how 
they would handle a call.  In another instance we had some police 
repeaters in the same building. It was alarmed directly back to them. 
Trust me, they knew how to find it. :-)

R 

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com>
Date: Friday, February 16, 2007 10:56 am
Subject: Re: [BC] Highway Promotion
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>

> 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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