[BC] The Worst I've Ever Seen!

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Yes. You can have well-constructed "homemade" towers. WACE in Chicopee, Massachusetts, is an example. It is a steel pole of various sizes welded together. It is basically a very robust guyed flagpole. An improvement I made when I was Chief Engineer was to drill a hole in the bottom to let accumulated water out. I noticed that the bottom had swelled a bit from freezing. The original designers probably thought that the pole was so well-welded that no water could get inside. That was the first tower I painted. It took a summertime to do it, because I scraped and primed it. That tower will probably last another fifty years.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Trombley" <ET at Munn-Reese.com>

At radio station WMAM, 570 kHz, Marinette, WI, Its tower is 300 feet 
of stacked well casing, guyed, painted and lighted.  Its been some 
time since I've seen it but I think it sits on a traditional 
insulator.  It must have been done right.  It's been vertical for a 
lot of years too .

ET