[BC] More Tower Sites on Google Maps
R A Meuser
rameuser at ieee.org
Tue Oct 30 18:11:36 CDT 2007
Willie
You just described WWJ in Detroit. They went from 5 KW to 50 with a
'Glen Clark special' 8 tower broadside array. The only small difference
is that the land was not sold but re purposed for an HDTV tower.
WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/30/2007 1:05:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> RichardBJohnson at comcast.net writes:
>
>
>>Maybe. However, when I was in the business, we designed
>> arrays to protect other stations, not to create a MW Yagi
>> to poke a signal into some obscure hole.
>
>
> LOL!! For some reason, that just struck me as funny. ;)
>
> Nowadays, tho, I could imagine it happening... some station's existing tower
> site is being drooled over by some landgrab developer, so the station ends up
> moving across town, but wants to recreate the coverage they had, while still
> needing to protect others, etc... so a pattern is developed to "poke that
> signal".
>
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