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Nicely done a whole different perspective !

Seeing people close up to the engine at the start of this video and in the distance those people in the cab, really gives you a clear sense of the sheer size and scale of this locomotive. Truly amazing.

From 0:00 to 0:10 inside your intro music of this video what is the name of that song.

The good thing about this location is that it’s close to a highway and occupied buildings adjacent to it. If this tower was located in a remote area, the tower and horns would have been vandalized and most likely the horns would have been removed by now. It’s good to see an intact tower and horns still in place and in good condition (at least cosmetically). It’s the horn antennas that make them interesting.

Can also recycled into road asphalt.

I work at Howell asphalt plants in Greenup effingham and Mattoon and made the mix for this job After milling we screen it and divide small from big and a percentage goes back into the new asphalt

The health and safety on this job is one the worst I have ever seen zero traffic management tractor Jcb just coming out from worksite into live traffic zero cones nothing you Americans are horrendous at road surfacing

I have worked doing this job every day 26 years in Scotland your comment about the diesel or oil on the re used millings and goes like concrete is a fallacy diesel rots asphalt all you need to do is pound them once laid with a vibrating roller that is all we sell them they are poor man’s driveway

Towers were no further apart than 20-25 miles, not "100 miles." The "pipes" connected to the antennas were called "wave guides." They were made from copper and went all the way from the base of the horns down the tower and inside the building. There were no "computers" inside the building as you state. These were 100% analog radios operating in the 4GHz and 6GHZ bands. The received signals were reamplified and then retransmitted to the next tower. The "fronts" of the antennas did nothing. They were completely transparent to the microwave signals. They were there to simply keep the weather out. The functional part of the antenna was the curved back side. These antennas were like a slice of a pie. If you look from the front of the antenna and were to rotate the entire antenna from the narrow point at the bottom (making that narrow point the center of the pie), you would have one giant parabolic dish with center as its focal point. Of course AT&T didn't need a giant 60' parabolic dish, so only the top slice of the "pie" was needed on the tower.

Such disappointment. What…?!? No FPV footage? Many options existed for a “professional “ drone pilot or operator. Examples: Hitting the “Gap” between the propellers and roof of the chopper. or Hitting the “Gap” between the floor of the chopper and the skids. You need to hire someone like BotGrinder. Someone with tremendous experience while working under the effects of many assistive substances. 🤣 Kidding aside, Nice Job!

It's not a "transmitting station" it's a "relay station," a bidirectional "relay station." They used two bands, 4 Gh and 6 Gh. American Tower hopes to lease space for cell phone and/or local FM radio station use. The type of antenna is called a "cornucopia antenna." The feedlines are rectangular waveguide that support the two different RF bands simultaneously. Each antenna can transmit on one band and receive on the other band. The RF comes into the weather tight cover and it is reflected by the curved back (a part of a parabola) down into the funnel. The TPO (Transmitter Power Output) was about four Watts. (not bad for tiny triode tubes, tiny because of the frequencies involved) These four antenna setup allowed two redundant paths for fail-safe operation. Ron W4BIN

Located down by Lakeland Collage south of Mattoon @ the intersection of I-57 and Route 45. The next closest one to the east is located in Edgar County just south of Route 16 between Grandview and Kansas, IL. Then the next one east was located in Terre Haute, IN downtown at the AT&T building by 7th & Ohio Street.

Need to add this town to my " need to go and see" list. Tanks for the info!

Cool shots, I didn't know AELT worked in Il, sometimes we work with them at my fire department in Oklahoma. Pretty birds for sure