[BC] Long Island, NY Metro PCS Cables Cut

[Cowboy]

On Sunday 04 December 2011 10:47:07 am Dave Dunsmoor wrote:
>  I don't remember the station, but I do remember seeing once
>  a smaller tower built along side as a cable race.
>  Apparently, worked well.
>  That way, the change as a cable is added, is much much smaller
>  per cable, so much less change, if any.

>     Curt, elaborate on the physical layout of this, would you? I'm picturing
> the radiating tower with a smaller cross-section tower adjacent to it with
> any/all cables running up it, then "jimping" over to the radiating tower at
> some level. Is that about it?
> 
>     Were the two towers mechanically bonded together, and how far apart were
> they? Cables bonded to "cable chase" tower, then to the radiating tower I
> take it? I'm picturing something like a 2-m j-pole here.

 Your imaginings are consistent with my memory.
 The radiator, about a 24 inch face stick, maybe 36, had an 18 inch
 or so "cable race" tower next to it, about two feet away,
 bonded at its top to the taller radiator stick. 
 Cables were run up in standard fashion for any grounded tower, except
 they ran up the smaller "race" tower.
 I didn't climb it, but presume that *all* were bonded at the point where
 the bridge ran from the larger to the smaller steel.
 That bridge appeared to be a short section of the smaller tower.
 As I recall, it was pretty heavily loaded.

 Another "odd" feed, though it's been some years since I was there,
 is/was the 1100 Cleveland.  ( WTAM/WKYC/WWWE/KYW )
 1/2 wave radiator fed at the base through a 1/4 wave section of
 tower layed horizontally and supported just above ground.
 Can't remember much more than that, though.
 RAM needs a refresh cycle, I guess.


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Cowboy