Request Info TV station
 

In my town there is a (TV ) tower ?
A series of towers four or five in a field, high 200 ft in a low flat area.
Is it a TV or FM station and to they string wire from pole to pole? and feed
the end or center.

Explain.

"Rich" wrote in message
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In my town there is a (TV ) tower ?
A series of towers four or five in a field, high 200 ft in a low flat
area.
Is it a TV or FM station and to they string wire from pole to pole? and
feed
the end or center.

Sounds more like a directional array for an AM station.

Please inform me, and thank you for your post's.


"Evan Platt" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:29:55 -0400, "Rich" wrote:

In my town there is a (TV ) tower ?
A series of towers four or five in a field, high 200 ft in a low flat
area.
Is it a TV or FM station and to they string wire from pole to pole? and
feed
the end or center.

The town / area may help. Someone may be in the same town or have seen
it.

Explain.

Gee, most people use something like 'please' or 'thanks.'

It's a phased array. No wires, the tower is the antenna. It sits on isolated
plates.
They point in certain directions so as to be available for the handy-dandy
AM emergency-whatever-coverage.
So there.

"Rich" wrote in message
...
In my town there is a (TV ) tower ?
A series of towers four or five in a field, high 200 ft in a low flat
area.
Is it a TV or FM station and to they string wire from pole to pole? and
feed
the end or center.

Explain.

It's a phased array. No wires, the tower is the antenna. It sits on
isolated plates.
They point in certain directions so as to be available for the
handy-dandy AM emergency-whatever-coverage.


Clarification for the original poster: that is an AM radio antenna
system. As Woody said, the towers are the antennas, no wires. The towers
are all connected by coax and fed in phase so as to provide a directional
Transmit pattern. THey probably did it this way because the FCC mandated a
specific coverage area for their license requirements.


Ed