About Stadium towers:
The University of Tennessee Amateur Radio Club has their tower on the top of
the skybox on the east end of Neyland Stadium. Check their website:
http://www.utarc.org/gallery2/v/shack/skyboxtowernew/
Makes you watch the football games more just to spot the tower. Go Vols!
Freddy Curtis - KC4GUG
Smithville, TN
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lux
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:57 AM
To: Gary "Joe" Mayfield; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Stadiums as Tower/Contest Locations
At 09:29 PM 7/3/2007, Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield wrote:
>Due to NCAA regulations requiring equal numbers of sports scholarships for
>women as men many universities have done away with football all together.
Not exactly a NCAA rule (although they may have rules that implement
this).. it's a federal law called Title 9. Wikipedia says:
<quote>Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, now known as the
Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act in honor of its
principal author, but more commonly known simply as Title IX, is a
37-word United States law enacted on June 23, 1972 that states: "No
person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded
from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to
discrimination under any education program or activity receiving
Federal financial assistance."[1]
</quote>
The practical implication is that schools have to spend the same on
men's and women's sports and provide substantially equal facilities
(no putting new carpet in the men's locker room, and leaving
splintery old wood floors in the women's..).
>Their stadiums sit idle for as many as 50 or more weekends a year. I know
>this is the case for most of the Missouri Valley Conference Schools.
>When I was an undergrad at Wichita State those light poles looked like
>incredible antenna mounts. The stadium now hosts less than four events a
>year.
>
>Does anyone know how much those 100 foot plus un-guyed poles would cost?
>The structures at WSU look similar to the giant poles you see at interstate
>interchanges only they seem much heavier.
>
>73,
>Joe kk0sd
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
>[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve W2ML
>Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 7:49 PM
>To: towertalk@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Stadiums as Tower/Contest Locations
>
> > Roger K8RI)
> >
> > I wonder, if properly approached, stadium management would allow
>hams/contesters
> > to set up semi permanent, or perhaps permanent towers/antennas or to use
>existing
> > tall structures at the stadiums for antennas and contest operations?
>
>If you are talking about stadia that host the NFL or other professional
>sports,
>keep in mind that 70,000 - 90,000 people are there for sporting events on
>the
>same weekends that contests are held.
>
>I passed this concept past the people who run Giants stadium at the
>Meadowlands in
>New Jersey and host 5 professional sports teams during the year. They
>thought
>I was joking.
>
>College stadia may be a possibility, but they, too, make a great deal of
>money on
>football during the fall contest season.
>
>While the towers and lighting grids look wonderful for ham antennas, if it
>doesn't
>make money for the venue, the chance of getting in to use the place for
>contesting
>rests solely on the coincidence of a ham being in a management or key
>position at
>the venue.
>
>Many places I visited, when I was traveling with Monday Night Football,
>would have
>made wonderful anchors for long wires/dipoles, but all the hams on the crew
>could
>do was dream about it.
>
>Of course, TowerTalk rule #1 applies here.... YMMV.
>
>-73- Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML
>President, North Jersey DX Association
>Game Day Frequency Coordinator, New York Jets
>
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