Sometimes it does not take a complaint.
Sometimes it is done to get zoning approval,
and sometimes it just makes sense - use the strobe
during the day and you don't have to paint, use the
red LED lights at night for lower maintenance and cost.
Don't take your organs to heaven,
heaven knows we need them down here!
Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Reed" <sreed@nwwnet.net>
To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Lighting
> Sometimes local complaints about the strobes get them changed. I do not
> know the process, but I know in the area a pair of towers was strobes
> 24/day and the residents didn't like it. They are now strobe day and
> red at night.
>
> Larry Burke wrote:
>> You may have just answered one of the great mysteries of my morning
>> commute.
>> Recently a 2000 foot commercial tower was erected not too far from where
>> I
>> live. It has BOTH flashing red lights and strobes, but they do not run at
>> the same time. At daybreak the reds go off and the strobes go on. At
>> dusk,
>> the opposite takes place. Two other nearby 2000 footers have strobes on
>> 24/7. None of these towers is painted red/white. So it sounds like it's
>> legal to run strobes during the day but not red lights.... and strobes
>> are
>> required during the day if there is no red/white painting?
>>
>> This still does not answer the question why the new tower has two
>> lighting
>> systems. Why not just run strobes all the time and not bother with red
>> lights at all?
>>
>> Larry K5RK
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
>> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of D Calder
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:30 PM
>> To: 'Tower and HF antenna construction topics.'
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Lighting
>>
>> Not legal. You can't leave them on all the time. I'm assuming these are
>> red
>> only incandescent at night
>> and this tower is painted red/white for daytime?
>>
>>
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