[BC] Shopping center arrays

[Paul Smith W4KNX]

WGUL 860 site in Safety Harbor Florida (Clearwater area) has their three
towers in an industrial park.  The streets go under the guys.  One tower is
in a small parking lot next to one of those steel buildings, another is in
the middle of a retention pond in the middle of the industrial park.
I always wonder how hard it is to keep that array in tune

Paul Smith
Sarasota, FL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Mishkind" <barry at oldradio.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 4:05 s PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Shopping center arrays


> 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...
>
>
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