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700 and 990 xmitter pics

V

vide0chik

Wow... someone remind me that the county roads in Hunt County are NOT paved... and NOT easily driven with a motorcycle. WOW. Who's idea was it to build those in BFE?

Anyway... I went with a printed out map of the 770 area.. and after a bit of searching, I found it. Most of the pics (25 or so of them) are of 770 - there's no fence around the area - just the doghouses and xmitter bldg. 990 had a fence up, so I didn't bother going in.

Lots of the pics of 700 show the radials more or less sprawled everywhere. They're obviously not done with those yet. Also it appears they HAVE been digging around/under the doghouses as if to level them out some. I didn't see any that looked real bad - and they all had slabs under them, but the ground out there was very cracked and dry... and I'm assuming there's a lot of shifting going on.

As an afterthought I decided to go find 990. Thanks to my web browser on my phone, I was able to get close enough with the FCC AM Search "area map" to actually SEE the towers in the distance... and more or less drive straight to them. I think the whole trip was ~130mi.

Disregard the 2 or 3 cat pictures... I'm too lazy to setup the FTP and delete them - I just dumped the whole contents of my camera into this dir.

http://www.vide0chik.com/funstuff/xmitters/

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> Wow... someone remind me that the county roads in Hunt
> County are NOT paved... and NOT easily driven with a
> motorcycle. WOW. Who's idea was it to build those in BFE?
>
> Anyway... I went with a printed out map of the 770 area..
> and after a bit of searching, I found it. Most of the pics
> (25 or so of them) are of 770 - there's no fence around the
> area - just the doghouses and xmitter bldg. 990 had a fence
> up, so I didn't bother going in.
>
> Lots of the pics of 700 show the radials more or less
> sprawled everywhere. They're obviously not done with those
> yet. Also it appears they HAVE been digging around/under
> the doghouses as if to level them out some. I didn't see
> any that looked real bad - and they all had slabs under
> them, but the ground out there was very cracked and dry...
> and I'm assuming there's a lot of shifting going on.
>
> As an afterthought I decided to go find 990. Thanks to my
> web browser on my phone, I was able to get close enough with
> the FCC AM Search "area map" to actually SEE the towers in
> the distance... and more or less drive straight to them. I
> think the whole trip was ~130mi.
>
> Disregard the 2 or 3 cat pictures... I'm too lazy to setup
> the FTP and delete them - I just dumped the whole contents
> of my camera into this dir.
>
> http://www.vide0chik.com/funstuff/xmitters/
>
WON'T BE LONG NOW! Soon you'll see a really nice "FOR SALE OR LEASE TO OWN" sign on 990 and 700. Come on gang! Let's start a cluster! Everyone borrow some money from their folks and we'll make an offer.

Thanks Vid! I didn't think anyone would really take the time to go out there. Kudo's to you for the great pix. My favorite was of the calico passed out in the sunbeam.
 
> Wow... someone remind me that the county roads in Hunt
> County are NOT paved... and NOT easily driven with a
> motorcycle. WOW. Who's idea was it to build those in BFE?
>
> Anyway... I went with a printed out map of the 770 area..
> and after a bit of searching, I found it. Most of the pics
> (25 or so of them) are of 770 - there's no fence around the
> area - just the doghouses and xmitter bldg. 990 had a fence
> up, so I didn't bother going in.
>
> Lots of the pics of 700 show the radials more or less
> sprawled everywhere. They're obviously not done with those
> yet. Also it appears they HAVE been digging around/under
> the doghouses as if to level them out some. I didn't see
> any that looked real bad - and they all had slabs under
> them, but the ground out there was very cracked and dry...
> and I'm assuming there's a lot of shifting going on.
>
> As an afterthought I decided to go find 990. Thanks to my
> web browser on my phone, I was able to get close enough with
> the FCC AM Search "area map" to actually SEE the towers in
> the distance... and more or less drive straight to them. I
> think the whole trip was ~130mi.
>
> Disregard the 2 or 3 cat pictures... I'm too lazy to setup
> the FTP and delete them - I just dumped the whole contents
> of my camera into this dir.
>
> http://www.vide0chik.com/funstuff/xmitters/
>


Outstanding!! The tower and buildibg pics are also excellent.
 
> Thanks Vid! I didn't think anyone would really take the
> time to go out there. Kudo's to you for the great pix. My
> favorite was of the calico passed out in the sunbeam.
>
I agree. Well fed kitties, at that. Thank you for sharing.
 
> > Thanks Vid! I didn't think anyone would really take the
> > time to go out there. Kudo's to you for the great pix.
> My
> > favorite was of the calico passed out in the sunbeam.
> >
> I agree. Well fed kitties, at that. Thank you for sharing.
>
The Black and white cat would definitely be an improvement over most talk show hosts.
 
> The Black and white cat would definitely be an improvement
> over most talk show hosts.
>


They both live up to their names. The calico is "Princess" and she knows it. The black and white one I've had since he was 3 weeks old (hes just now a year) and his name is Rascal. He loves biting ANYTHING that moves. Including talk show hosts *grin*

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BTW: Off Topic

Hopefully the mods won't pull this... it's not technically advertising... I'm going to try to kill myself for a good cause. *grin*

If y'all would be so kind as to just click the link and read up, I'd be much obliged!

click here


Thanks!
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vide0 killed the radi0 star</P>
 
> > The Black and white cat would definitely be an improvement
>
> > over most talk show hosts.
> >
>
>
> They both live up to their names. The calico is "Princess"
> and she knows it. The black and white one I've had since he
> was 3 weeks old (hes just now a year) and his name is
> Rascal. He loves biting ANYTHING that moves. Including talk
> show hosts *grin*
>
Mark Davis are you listening?;)
 
> Wow... someone remind me that the county roads in Hunt
> County are NOT paved... and NOT easily driven with a
> motorcycle. WOW. Who's idea was it to build those in BFE?
>

Cool pics... thanks. I've actually had the fortune (or misfortune) to sit at the 990 Xmitter and monitor a ball game.. this was right after it went on the air, pre studio. We hooked up a Comrex Hotline, and plugged it into the BE board that they had out there, and it worked pretty decent.

J
 
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