[BC] BE AM-1A Transmitter Air filter Heads-up!!

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

I think the tower was a "Johnny come lately" because the refinery was there probably before Bayonne. It happened in the early '70s. It is likely that there were concrete footing problems because the soil is so polluted and acetic.

The real scary thing is that there is ongoing construction of a 2,000 ft tower http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/nyregion/tv-stations-prefer-bayonne-for-new-tower.html?pagewanted=1 to replace the World Trade Center towers.

This is going to require a great deal of site preparation. Last I heard, the Bayonne refinery has been shut down (one of the oldest in the country) and THIS will be on the site where it existed!

Also, many people lived downwind from that refinery and paint on their cars didn't last a year! This was all before he EPA.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: mrfixit at min.midco.net

> I'm told that they make refineries to survive in refinery   
> environments. This is apparently not true for radio transmitters and  
>  radio towers.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard B. Johnson

Well, true enough, but I have a difficult time accepting that the  
concentration of H2S at the distance (was it a mile or so?) mentioned  
(and it would only be occasionally, according to whatever the wind  
direction happened to be) would eat away steel within a year.

I drive by these things all the time, and while you certainly don't  
want to be close downwind (that stuff is extremely toxic), I don't see  
anything being eaten up.

Dave