[BC] Shopping center arrays

[Barry Mishkind]

This is something that has become more and more common in recent 
years.  As was noted with WSB and other major stations, the pressure 
to get income from the land has moved many stations to allow shopping 
centers, even industrial parks, to surround the antenna.

A comparison look at KFI 20 years ago and recently (until the 
airplane dumped the main tower) is instructive. The business park 
that grew around the tower was so close, it was amazing no one was 
hurt in the accident.  A couple of pix are on the KFI page at 
www.oldradio.com, one from 1994, after some incursion had already started.

Perhaps the most famous is KTNQ, Los Angeles. Where the five sticks 
were located, eventually, INSIDE the buildings built under the array. 
I've got some pix of that, too.

barry

At 01:48 PM 11/20/05, Gary Blau wrote
>I forgot about WFAX, too.  A shunt fed self supporter in a strip mall.
>
>g
>
>"Dale H. Cook" wrote:
> > ...We have one of those here in Roanoke - WFIR, where a mall and 
> its parking
> > lots were built on top of a two-tower array of self-supporters...