[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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