[Towertalk] MW BC tower

[Rob Atkinson, K5UJ]

I think I sent something to this list a couple of weeks ago about touring a 
radio station and looking at their tower.  Continuing that, I'm putting out 
a quick note to everyone to tell you all that if you happen to be in the 
west Chicago suburbs sometime you might find it interesting to take a quick 
look at the WSCR (ex WMAQ) tx site on Army Trail Rd. in Glendale Heights IL. 
  The property itself is fenced in of course *but* the land just west of the 
site has been developed and is now the qth of a Dominicks Supermarket and 
parking lot.  You can now park and walk along the station property line 
behind the supermarket and get a pretty good look at the feedpoint insulator 
and other hardware from about 300 ft. away.  This is a 50 Kw. day/night 
clear channel 1A omnidirectional site operating on 670 Khz.  The tower looks 
like it's about 700 or 800 ft. tall.  The way the guys are insulated and 
anchored and the overall massiveness of the thing is pretty awesome 
considering it's sitting on an insulator.  Surprisingly (to me) they used 
3-way guying. I guess when you know what your doing that's enough.  There 
were also all these RF hazard warning signs about 50 ft. away from the 
tower--I should get some of those and put them in my yard and see what the 
neighbors do, hi.

73,

Rob Atkinson
K5UJ
k5uj@hotmail.com

P.s.  On some of the guy insulators, they had these green flourescent tube 
looking things hooked around the insulators from one side to the other.  
Anyone know what these could be?

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