[BC] Your site in view - Radio Town USA Chicago

[Mike McCarthy]

Both of the aux. WGN and WBBM towers are painted.  Both sites are 
within/under the approach cone for O'Hare runways 9L and 9R.  They both 
pre-date O'Hare by 30 years...  Under no conditions would those towers 
be built today...local zoning not withstanding.

MM

> On 8 May 2005 at 9:24, Tom Bosscher wrote:
> 
> > Alan Alsobrook wrote:
> >  >Heck, the paint even looks good on the NW tower.. But can't see 
any on 
> > the SE one. If that is a SE one.
> > 
> >     The painted tower is WGN's main tower. My guess is that the 
> > unpainted maybe an aux AM tower, at a quarter wave length, which 
may 
> > have strobes on it.
> 
> Wouldn't the aux tower(s) be unlighted, coming within the obstruction
> marking "umbrella" of the WGN and WBBM tall towers?
> 
> Phil Alexander, CSRE 
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