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Posted: 10/19/2017 5:46:33 PM EDT
As much as I hate "public radio", it was very sad to see the old tower come down
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Posted: 10/19/2017 5:58:01 PM EDT
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An old radio tower coming down is sad?
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Posted: 10/19/2017 6:15:28 PM EDT
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That certainly is a contender for the most-vertical vertical video ever recorded.
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Posted: 10/19/2017 7:06:31 PM EDT
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An old radio tower coming down is sad? the area changing. They're nostalgic. Same thing happened with a long-term broadcast AM station in our area that was much loved, the station pre-dated WW2 by like 15 years. When it was decommissioned they actually had a ceremony and walk-throughs and opened a museum about it nearby, because it had many decades of history, celebrities, notable events and such. There's actually a few historical blogs dedicated to this stuff. Here is one multi-part travelogue about radio station visits. |
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Posted: 10/19/2017 7:38:05 PM EDT
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An old radio tower coming down is sad?  Any tower coming down is heartbreaking. It's a ham thing, many people won't understand.
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Posted: 10/19/2017 9:27:07 PM EDT
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These are rhe ones I hated to see come down -- VOA, the end of an era.
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Posted: 10/19/2017 10:21:31 PM EDT
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These are rhe ones I hated to see come down -- VOA, the end of an era.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR6xc3EW4HA |
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Posted: 10/19/2017 10:55:21 PM EDT
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Man, that was depressing.
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Posted: 10/20/2017 12:49:28 PM EDT
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What's even more depressing is remembering how active the SW BC bands used to be just 10 years ago. I had favorites I'd tune to just about every evening: Austria, Netherlands, Prague, Romania, Czech Republic, BBC, Switzerland, even The Voice of Russia. Many of them could even be picked up with a simple two stage vacuum tube regen receiver.
BBC is still broadcasting in English from Africa and can be picked up when the propagation is good. Romania may still be around, but I haven't checked in several months.  Failed To Load Title |
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Posted: 10/24/2017 2:12:16 PM EDT
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Sad, yes. But cutting guy wires never stops being exciting! My company dropped a 260' guyed microwave tower earlier this year. Quite the big to-do when it's in the middle of town! I was on the crew that toppled a 130' Rohn 65 a couple of years ago, that one was in the woods like in OP's video though.
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