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Re: [TowerTalk] WSPA-TV Tower Collapse

To: "bill rubin" <brubin2010@gmail.com>, <ai4wn@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] WSPA-TV Tower Collapse
From: <pstark@suddenlink.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:51:32 -0500
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I looked up the wspa channel 7 antenna in fcc cdbs and it is a Dielectric 
TW-12b7r traveling wave type.

Here is dielectric page url:
http://www.dielectric.com/broadcast/brochures/TW.pdf


WSPA is a channel 7 station.
So look up the antenna weight.
I read 14,400 pounds(assuming slot covers).

Some of the broadcast antennas are big.
They had a spare antenna too.  For channel 7.
They also had an antenna for their interim dtv channel 57.  Lotsa weight up 
there,  and ice.


Pete K4OM
Huntington, WV
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bill rubin" <brubin2010@gmail.com>
To: <ai4wn@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] WSPA-TV Tower Collapse


Typical news... never reporting the facts correctly ... "Each antenna
weights 7 tons"   Yea sure.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:24 PM, AI4WN <ai4wn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here's the latest news video from the WSPA-TV tower collapse----
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> http://www.wspa.com/spa/news/local/article/repairs_continue_on_news_channel_7_transmitter/15205/
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> WSPA-TV is the CBS affilate in the Greenville-Spartanburg, SC. market.
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> 73 Tedd
> 73 de AI4WN
> Tedd Davison
> 116 Mountain Shore Dr.
> Greenwood, SC 29649 (USA)
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