[TowerTalk] Here's a real Mess for a Tower - Picture Link

[Dino Darling]

Someone needs help putting a web page together.  It is a lot of work 
to click each unlabeled link and work your way through all the pictures!

At 10:46 PM 02/16/2006, Bob Smith wrote:
>HI All,
>
>I'm a wireless network consultant in my 'other life' and thought you
>all might get
>a real charge out of seeing what some people call a 'commercial tower install'
>
>The tower in the pictures is used by a TV translator system , but a new WISP
>in Ky. is thinking of putting up a system on the tower also.
>
>He is experiencing a whole lot of electrical noise when he mounts his antennas
>on the tower, but he can hold them in his hand, not mounted, and the noise
>goes away.  So now he's thinking of wrapping the mounts with 
>electrical tape to
>insulate them from the tower and install his equipment.  (Good
>electrical practice?)
>
>My comment to him was "tie a cable to his bumper and to the tower and
>drive away from the tower, this way he would be doing both the tower owner and
>himself a favor".   No kidding aside, as you can see in the pictures
>(#13 - #27)
>the tower is a mess.
>
>http://www.kywifi.com/images/vptower/index.php
>
>Gawd, ham's get hassled in California for a 30' tower, and in Ky. you can just
>put of anything, anyway and use it  ,, Go figure.
>
>Bob Smith
>NA6T
>
>
>
>Bob Smith
>A.R.S NA6T
>ARRL Life Member
>Fort Bragg, California   95437
>
>"On The Air-Conditioned Mendocino Coast, In REAL Northern California"
>No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message.
>However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
>
>
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