[BC] Terraserver - KVI, Seattle

[Michael Nerenberg]

Here's CBU Vancouver, BC...
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=vancouver,+bc&ll=49.138498,-123.198634&spn=0.004839,0.007918&t=k&hl=en


Andrew Skotdal wrote:

>>The ground system extends under the sand and out into the salt water.
> 
> 
> Now, having spent some time installing ground radials, I have to ask:
> how'd they do that?
> 
> They probably did it the same way it was done for another radio station
> in the Puget Sound area - secured an Army Corps permit to head out in a
> boat with a spool of copper at slack tide in the morning (over several
> days) and drop the copper end over the side of the boat attached to a
> cement block.  3/4 of the KVI ground system is in the salt water (but
> it's been argued that the system has eroded quite a bit).  The beach
> part was basically trench and bury, probably manually, and out to the
> water as far as you could go on low tide.  
> 
> I'm guessing it's the same for KNEW, San Francisco - take the boat, drop
> the copper overboard.  I'd like to see somebody post some TerraServer
> photos like the KNEW link I've provided, but show them from Florida or
> the Gulf states...I know there are lots of these salt water AM sites.
> I've seen some from Florida, but would like to see more.  Those were
> some great shots of WCBS/WFAN from High Island.  I've been told there
> are a few sites on the Ol' Miss like that, too.  Can anybody on this
> list prove it?
> 
> KNEW - The best antenna site ever and not the only one of its kind...
> 
> http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=8&Z=10&X=11187&Y=83889&W=3&q
> s=%7cSan+Francisco%7cCA%7c
> 
> 
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> Dave
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