[BC] Highway Promotion

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

When I was in Rural Southwestern Virgina, driving along the highway with a
friend... I spotted a radio tower... and just a few hundred feet away was
one of those, like..drive in type signs.

You know, the type you could hall on the back of a pick-up truck with a
flashing area on both sides and place for you to put up plastic letters.

It worked great, you could easily see it from the highway.. and everyone
knew who they were.

Paul



On 2/16/07, robertm at nyc.rr.com <robertm at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>