Tijuana's (smaller) version of Mt. Wilson

[Big 121]

A family's view DOWN to Tijuana. The pics show towers with mostly Microwave, Land mobile, and maybe 2
UHF TV stations. Click 'actions' to get the full-size renderings.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathangibbs/3307745063/in/photostream/

 

[600kogo]

Ok in response to that picture I would just like to say to those walking in the picture "Welcome to Sterility!!" I hope children were not in your future plans!! LOL

 

[SDRadio]

Is that an AM stick on the right side (in the background) in the midst of all the others? I can make out at least three FMs and at least three UHF.

As far as the sterility ... 600KOGO ... your nuts .... Not "you are nuts" but 'your nuts'!!

 

[RadeoEngineer]

Nah, nobody looks close enough to be overexposed. You'd be amazed at how close you can be before you hit the limit. I was measuring a KOGO tower with Tom Cox one day and I actually had to physically touch the tower with the probe to get any reading at all.

 

[SDRadio]

These are Mexican watts, which bring out American "WHAT?!?"

 

[pianoplayer88key]

Nah, nobody looks close enough to be overexposed.  You'd be amazed at how close you can be before you hit the limit.  I was measuring a KOGO tower with Tom Cox one day and I actually had to physically touch the tower with the probe to get any reading at all.

So maybe I wasn't all that close to KTIE in this photo?   Hey I wonder how close I could get to a 50kW stick before hitting the limit, or getting RF burns just by standing there (not that I'd want to get quite THAT close )?  Also if someone was to put an AM station at or below 720 kHz with a 1/2-wave or Franklin antenna in the center of a nuclear power plant disaster's exclusion zone, what power level might it be able to transmit so that the exposure limit would be the edge of the exclusion zone, and how far might the groundwave signal go, not taking into account interference from other stations?  And how high/powerful might an FM have to be to duplicate the coverage area that, for example, a 500 kW on 540 with a 1/2-wave antenna would have over a saltwater path, such that where the AM is fading into the atmospheric noise, the FM may still be decoding stereo or HD (assuming a receive antenna height of about 1.5 meters above ground level)?

 

[RadeoEngineer]

Nah, nobody looks close enough to be overexposed. You'd be amazed at how close you can be before you hit the limit. I was measuring a KOGO tower with Tom Cox one day and I actually had to physically touch the tower with the probe to get any reading at all.

So maybe I wasn't all that close to KTIE in this photo? Hey I wonder how close I could get to a 50kW stick before hitting the limit, or getting RF burns just by standing there (not that I'd want to get quite THAT close )? Also if someone was to put an AM station at or below 720 kHz with a 1/2-wave or Franklin antenna in the center of a nuclear power plant disaster's exclusion zone, what power level might it be able to transmit so that the exposure limit would be the edge of the exclusion zone, and how far might the groundwave signal go, not taking into account interference from other stations? And how high/powerful might an FM have to be to duplicate the coverage area that, for example, a 500 kW on 540 with a 1/2-wave antenna would have over a saltwater path, such that where the AM is fading into the atmospheric noise, the FM may still be decoding stereo or HD (assuming a receive antenna height of about 1.5 meters above ground level)?

Sorry, that made me dizzy AND gave me a headache.