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

[Scott Fybush]

At 05:22 PM 5/9/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Mike wrote:
>
> >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.
>
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>
>The quality of those pictures is amazing!  I counted 11 crows, 8 
>blackbirds and a raven on the towers.  Er - wait ... oops, that's just 
>spots on my CRT, sorry...

That would be 20 birds KILLED by those evil towers, right? :-)

By the way, the "W G N" letters visible in the satellite image are, I 
believe, rocks painted white and laid out on the grounds of the site. I've 
seen them more than once on approach or departure from ORD when the 
weather's nice and I've been on the right side of the plane...

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