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T-town Jug Factory road tower?

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Doctor_Technical

Stopped by Tuscaloosa to pay homage to the original Dreamland; I'm sure the locals were amused by me standing in the middle of the road, trying to figure out all of the antennas on the tower across the street.

I guessed that the not-so-evenly stacked, cross-polarized Yagi's were a translator -- although I also noted 3 or 4 aimed in one direction and another one aimed 90 degrees off.

But wha-a-a-at is that eight-bay thing on the top? Eight levels of stand-offs (again, not very evenly-spaced) hold... what? The individual antennas look like ground-planes without the driven element. Horizontally-polarized crossed-dipoles? The top "bays" are smack-dab in the middle of the UHF antenna's aperture. Hmmm.

The FCC site pulls up three LPFM's on 103.3, and sure enough it's a shared-time channel with two other licenses. Anything to do with the tower in question?

What's the story?
 
I believe the tower you were looking at was WDBB's original (?) right behind their studios. That tower is loaded up, isn't it? :)

All three LPFM's on 103.3 are on the tower, and from what I've seen on the FCC's site, all three are at different heights and with different power outputs!

I *think* the 88.9 translator may have been on there, too, before it was given the old bump up to real power.
*Thinking again* there may have even been a translator on 100.1 for WQZZ on there at one time, but I can't find any info on that one anymore.

Oh! And WVUA-CA channel 7's broadcasting from there.

Gosh, I wonder if WDBB's old antenna is still up there as a backup?

No telling what else is up on that old thing.

As a side note, seeing WDBB's studio and tower up on that hill, along with WCFT's old studio and short stick near Cottondale are pretty much what got me interested in radio and TV, and their facilities... Even as a kid I wondered why WCFT located their tower down in a hole well below the surrounding terrain, along with their studios... At the dead end of a residential street, no less.
 
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