truckerbase
June 26th, 2005, 09:44 AM
Yes, yes. The last of the dreary am antenna infomercials for the archives. Have been waiting to get these photos for a bit (daytime shots). The first set shows four identical 550 foot freestander am antennas in the distinctive grouping characteristic of the breed. The typical crappy wooden fence around it used to be a 3 foot white picket fence. Apparently the owners have been reading my posts and decided to add 3 seconds to the time needed to go over the fence by rebuilding the entire thing and raising it to nearly 6 feet. They also appear to have run off Tom Aiello and his wingsuit "scruffy". Literally an insufferable pair. Er...inseperable...I meant....of course....
Closeups of one of the legs clearly shows the shiny black insulator between the metal and the concrete base, as well as the Ring in the Ring "magicians rings" used to route lighting strikes to the ground rather than through the transmitters electronics. Lightning discharges to the ground via arcing. Also visible but less clear are "drumsticks", metal poles sticking out from the base with round balls on the ends, very close to one another but not touching, serving, I assume, a similar function.
Also included just for the hell of it is a 650 foot guyed quadwire ugly, a good example of a large scale high power am antenna which stands alone generating its signal singly, rather than combining power of 3 or 4 antennas in a line via "overlap".
:p
Closeups of one of the legs clearly shows the shiny black insulator between the metal and the concrete base, as well as the Ring in the Ring "magicians rings" used to route lighting strikes to the ground rather than through the transmitters electronics. Lightning discharges to the ground via arcing. Also visible but less clear are "drumsticks", metal poles sticking out from the base with round balls on the ends, very close to one another but not touching, serving, I assume, a similar function.
Also included just for the hell of it is a 650 foot guyed quadwire ugly, a good example of a large scale high power am antenna which stands alone generating its signal singly, rather than combining power of 3 or 4 antennas in a line via "overlap".
:p