[BC] The Worst I've Ever Seen!

[Mike McCarthy]

I've seen worse and one of my stations was as bad, if not worse before we
rebuilt it 10 years ago.  The base piers were listed 15 deg. and the tower
base had slid off it's pin point resting on an adjacent bolt. The towers
were just as snaked as this one.  All 6 towers were dropped.

I find the suspended base insulator concept ingenius. While I concur that
tower is in a very precarious state, guying every 30 ft. at the weakest
point of the mast isn't a terrible design on it's own merit.  The person
who did the design was clearly knowledgeable.  Just brute force
frugal...and trades skilled. I have to give the guy credit.

MM

> One thing that would be even more funny, at least to me, is if some
> active broadcaster and member of this list announced "I can top it"
> and proceeded to do so with pictures from his/her own station.
>
> For myself, I can't imagine what would be worse than this.  I would
> have been afraid to take the pictures.
>
> Jeff/KD4RBG
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Dave Dunsmoor <mrfixit at min.midco.net>
> wrote:
>>
>>> ... well, you'll just have to see it to believe it.
>>>
>>> http://www.thebdr.net/articles/warstories/worst/Worst-tower.pdf
>>
>>    Good grief! After seeing how it was suspended at the base, I'd be
>> wanting to put some distance between me and it, and quickly.
>>
>>    Yeah, that's one for the books. Has to be #1 on the worst list.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>
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