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Where Was This Antenna Tower That Fell After The Ice Storm?

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This is an excerpt from a FOX 7 (online) news article:

The utility is warning residents that restoring power to a single circuit could be a multi-day effort due to equipment possibly being in hard-to-reach areas like a greenbelt or buried under extremely heavy debris. One example of this is a 500-foot steel communications tower that crashed down on a three-phase distribution line, four spans of wires and five power poles. Repairing this site alone will take several days.

What tower fell? Was it a "broadcast" tower (AM or FM radio tower) or what?

Thanks.
 
I haven't heard about this tower collapse.

Most AM towers are not that tall. Generally, and this is a broad generalization, the lower the frequency the taller the tower. In Austin most stations are in the upper half of the band. 590's towers are a little under 400 ft and I am not sure there are any power lines for them to fall on. All the other AM towers are substantially shorter. 1370's for example are just about 250 ft.
 
Ryan Williams said:
I haven't heard about this tower collapse.

Most AM towers are not that tall. Generally, and this is a broad generalization, the lower the frequency the taller the tower. In Austin most stations are in the upper half of the band. 590's towers are a little under 400 ft and I am not sure there are any power lines for them to fall on. All the other AM towers are substantially shorter. 1370's for example are just about 250 ft.
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The tower that fell appears to be one of the shorter ones in the antenna farm off near the end of Waymaker.

I'm not sure there was any fm broadcast on it currently. Maybe some two-way?

There is a picture at... City of Austin Winter Weather Morning Status Update - February 4
 
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