AM antenna base insulator, cable insulators

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An attempt to add photos of a guyed AM antenna insulated base and its typical cable insulators into the archives. Cable insulators are usually black or grey. These look white because of zoom. There will usually be 2 or even 3 or more insulator balls in the wire.

Normally the red painted pointed metal base comes down into the concrete like a pencil. Here a black insulator is between the red painted metal and the concrete base.

Note the ridiculous, cheap, low fence with no barbed wire. AM antennas normally do not so greatly profit its owners as to encourage them to spend a lot on fences. I have seen 3 foot high white picket fences before.

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Ok. So that didnt work out so well. How about this.

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And by golly, since we're having so much patootin fun, heres a standard 1500 foot FM tower with stinger on top, and a 360 degree crows nest style platform (at 1100 feet) from my own private reserve.

The analogies for Am antennas and Fm antennas is this: An AM antenna is like a fluorescent office light tube stuck in the ground vertically. It is "hot" (electrified) from the ground up, and radiates the length of the antenna.

An Fm antenna is like a street light. A long cold dark pole stuck in the ground with a light at the top, broadcasting its energy. Other lights can be hung on the pole, but they still broadcast from that point. Not from the whole tower.

PS. Yes I got a digital camera, so now I can be twice as irritating as I was ever before. But as you can see, thats me getting some coca leaf to calm y'all down... :D