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There is no substitute for altitude...

Pretty awesome...wonder what magnitude of earthquake it can survive?
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
Heck, we have a 2000 ft tower in Oklahoma. I'm guessing it's not THE tallest out there...
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Yes, but can I pop up to the 1476' level of your tower and whip out my camera, or stop at the 1148' level and get dinner! (I might drop my dinner, but thats another story) :D
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
Heck, we have a 2000 ft tower in Oklahoma. I'm guessing it's not THE tallest out there...
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Actually, at 2080 feet, the Tokyo Skytree is the tallest radio tower currently in existence, and the second tallest structure of any kind in the world. The Tokyo Skytree is 13 feet taller than the next tallest radio tower (KVLY-TV in North Dakota), which is a guyed structure. The Warsaw Radio Mast was taller than either of those two (at 2121 feet), but it collapsed over 20 years ago.

For what it's worth, the world's tallest structure is the Burj Khalifa, which is a whopping 2,723 feet at its tip. I'd assume that it has some broadcasting taking place from its top, but I haven't found what services are using it.
 
Kent T said:
WWWifi, LOL and more. Almost spilled drool over my keyboard. Altitude is good, I love my ERP to go with it.
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Imagine what a class A would do at that height...it'd carry forever but wouldn't penetrate the coffee shop across the street.
 
I live at 6650'. And the FM's nearby are at 10,300'.

But then Mt Washington overlooks mostly areas with nothing as high.
 
mgpt6 said:
WMTW 94.9FM Poland Spring, Maine. Antenna atop Mt Washington ,NH 6700 feet above sea level.
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That call letter are WHOM and I've stood up there near that tower...it's a short tower but the mountain does most of the work. I want to say the Portland market they successfully serve is 65 (!) air miles away.
 
It's clear as a bell in Portland.

I've also received WHOM clearly in Portsmouth, NH, Haverhill, MA, Gloucester, MA, and a with static in Scituate, MA (south shore!!) and other places. Anywhere north of Boston and it starts to come in when the pirates aren't on 94.9.

48kW (50kW with beam tilt) at 6,312 feet above sea level, and 3,743' HAAT; when a lot of the land slopes down near sea level to the south and east it creates a monster of a signal. It will stop the seek button on Rt. 93/95 anywhere north of Danvers, MA.

I should run a Longley-Rice on it just for fun. Those FCC contour maps don't really tell the full story.
 
Sitting on a couch on Pocasset on cape cod. Got WHOM right now on a Grundig G3, 4 out of 10 on the signal strength meter (whatever it's calibrated to I don't know).

Pretty amazing. That has to be at least 175 air miles from here.
 
WNTIRadio said:
Sitting on a couch on Pocasset on cape cod. Got WHOM right now on a Grundig G3, 4 out of 10 on the signal strength meter (whatever it's calibrated to I don't know).

Pretty amazing. That has to be at least 175 air miles from here.
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Mt Washington may be known for snow, but it also hosts a flamethrower. There's a 103.7 up there as well that's 3-4db down from WHOM. Does it scream too?
 
WHOM claims to have the largest land area coverage of any FM station in the US -- but the "principal community" it is officially licensed to serve has the fewest permanent residents: Zero. Does this make any sense?
 
Play Freebird said:
WHOM claims to have the largest land area coverage of any FM station in the US -- but the "principal community" it is officially licensed to serve has the fewest permanent residents: Zero. Does this make any sense?
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If it were a new station today, the FCC probably wouldn't have licensed it to Mt. Washington. Although, given the number of businesses with "Mount Washington" in their names, the applicant might have been able to make a successful case, as long as they could steer the Commission away from the Census figures! (or lack thereof!)

But it wouldn't have made much difference. They would have found some other actual community to license the station. As Bob says, there's another station up there -- it's licensed to North Conway, 2010 pop. 2,349. (which IIRC is a relatively recent change, wasn't WPKQ originally licensed to Berlin?) There are obviously plenty of populated places within the city-grade contour of WHOM!

Strangely enough, the TV station that used to be up there is also licensed to a non-existent community... Best I can tell there is no incorporated community of Poland Spring, Maine. There's a Town of Poland (named, strangely enough, after a Native American chief) but Poland Spring is, well, a spring.

Arguably, you couldn't change it now. Since you can't remove a community's only station, if you relicensed WHOM to some other community you'd have to find some other station to license to Mt. Washington.
 
w9wi said:
Play Freebird said:
WHOM claims to have the largest land area coverage of any FM station in the US -- but the "principal community" it is officially licensed to serve has the fewest permanent residents: Zero. Does this make any sense?
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If it were a new station today, the FCC probably wouldn't have licensed it to Mt. Washington. Although, given the number of businesses with "Mount Washington" in their names, the applicant might have been able to make a successful case, as long as they could steer the Commission away from the Census figures! (or lack thereof!)
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There's a post office up there, and I think the researchers at the observatory count as "residents." It bears noting that the original Armstrong/Yankee FM station up there was licensed to... "Boston"!

But it wouldn't have made much difference. They would have found some other actual community to license the station. As Bob says, there's another station up there -- it's licensed to North Conway, 2010 pop. 2,349. (which IIRC is a relatively recent change, wasn't WPKQ originally licensed to Berlin?) There are obviously plenty of populated places within the city-grade contour of WHOM!
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WPKQ was indeed licensed to Berlin...the change to North Conway allowed for a main studio move, IIRC.
 
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