I was on this tower, swapping a light which burn out to be hoisted up the day Wako burnt down, and again the day OJ was found Innocent....(Same light) It was solid and well built. Lightly built by today standards ( 1966 54 years ago). However Mother Nature had her hand in it like the WOLX tower (Baraboo WI) built 1948-9. Which fell for the same reasons New Year Eve 1997. This 9 foot face 4 sided tower had a similar full facial icing issue due to fog from the river drifting up on the colder steel structure. Glad know one was hurt. Job well done Crew.
Very well done! I am an old retired TV Tech. Hired by WFMY-TV in 1975, as a Master Control operator, in the Engineering Dept, while I finished my Degree. In 1980, the mandate came down, to build a 2,000 ft. tower. It took 18 months to get all the permits, buy the land and get the tower set and the antenna set. That was a monster for central NC. I know the feeling when the switch is flipped for the first time.
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The design, build and installation of the new 2000 foot tower is a tribute to American ingenuity and team work. The new Harris UHF transmitters are very much state of the art and in combination with the new tower and antennas, should provide many years of service to the public.
@@1L6E6VHF when I moved to Apex NC I logged a channel 35 from virginia.. That same night I watched a tv station at 1am from atlanta GA on channel 20.. Those were the days..
Amazing documentation and narration. I have built towers for 20 years. I found very informative information that I did not know so, thank you for this masterpiece.
This was a very big job and the people who worked on this Tower should be very proud! The Documentary and Engineering were the very best, Excellent job!
@@rudybigboote3883 Hmmm, let's read your comment again, shall we? "What the hell are you so defensive about? Did it fall? YES IT DID!" I'm not crying about it, you are. seems like you're the defensive one.
Took me 2 years to put up a 40' tower and 16' beam antenna, but I only had myself and not a crew. I applaud these guys. 40' up in the air scares the poop out of me.
On2wls I know what you mean, when I was a teenager, I put up a 30-ft tower, plus guy ropes for a 12-ft dipole and beam for when I was on the CB rigs. That took me about 6-months to design and work out how to do it for all-weather construction. And yes it was just me and my brother, but still we thought it was like a huge job to do. We had to put concrete anchor points into the backyard. Funnily enough I always wonder what happened with that antenna. The new owner of the property probably thought oh geez this has got to come down.
this is a great video on the fabrication of the tower, very detailed unlike most videos, really shows what goes into the fabrication, thanks for making and posting.....cheers
I'm amazed at all the steel that went into this structure. I cannot imagine how much downward force is being exerted on the base foundation.... there's the weight of the steel in the structure, the weight of the antenna at the top, and the weight of the cabling and signal conduits and the weight and force of the heavy guy wires pulling down to keep the antenna upright!!!! That base is supporting a LOT!!! Anyone have any numbers on all of the combined weight? I'd bet that the penny they placed under the first base piece is nothing but a paper-thin wafer.
Awesome video. I love how everyone helped. I really love how everything was made in the USA. I really wish we could go back to everything made in the USA
I could not physically/mentally do this kind of work. (Highest I ever got as a carpenter was 40 feet off the ground walking plate on walls. Hated it.). The depth of expertise, the long tradition of manufacturing, and the sheer scale of production is amazing.
Great work by all involved in the industry to get the new tower built. And great applause to those other stations that came to help get them back on the air quickly in time of need, that is what America should be about!
In Japan, all TV stations are built together in the mountains. Nowadays, there is Tokyo Sky Tree, but in the 1960s, the optimum height of the TV tower was around 250 meters in areas without high mountains. I also wanted Japan to standardize on 600 meters.
I was living in this area when that tower fell. WEAU and Waxx 104 were the two primary stations I watched and listened to. I was amazed at how fast the new tower went up.
I’ve done a bit of broadcast radio work here, fantastic documentary, and insane work schedule to get all that put back together, kudos and congratulations
There was a tower in Poland that was the world's tallest ,after it collapsed during a maintenance accident the Poles said they went from world's tallest to the world's longest tower .
That was an outstanding video detailing the entire event, from the disasterous collapse and cleanup to the production of the new tower and all it's components. What an outstanding job all the people involved did to make this renovation a success in record time. Erecting a structure such as this is a difficult and dangerous job. My compliments to all those who were involved. I know something about tower erection, even though the tower erected for me was a 120 foot motorized extendable section Amateur Radio tower. There was so much civil engineering and construction work on the base alone it's amazing. Then there is the part where the tower itself is lifted into place, leveled and bolted down....My neighbors always had a show to watch of all the construction equipment that was used to erect a tower came into play....Even that was a hell of a project...LoL N2YWI
Now if only they could find programs worth watching I don’t even try watching television anymore and cut off my satellite connection to expensive for all the junk programming
The tv industry is killing themselves with so many commercials. The commercial breaks come so often and last so long you forget what you was watching. The reason I am seeing this is I look at videos on the computer. They are beginning to kill themselves with commercials too. I have never been much of a reader, however i read a lot now. Also magazines are nothing but commercials and the industry can't figure out why they are going down the tubes. DUH.
Odd, those cable reels had 'Bethlehem Strand' painted on them....Bethlehem Steel has been out of business since 2003. Must have been reused. When going to college, I worked at the Nelson Company during the summer, where we made many of those big cable reels. I later worked for Bethlehem Steel before it went under.
My God that was a very sad day...I’ll never forget where I was, and doing when that tower came down..It truly changed our lives, and it took a long time to get back to some normalcy..
I’m always, taking the piss out of Americans, but this was a phenomenal undertaking 🙌🏻👏🏻 I cant express myself enough to all the people involved in this project....well done.
Got my feet wet working for Pat and Don when they were in Cedar Hill TX. I helped build and stack a 2000 footer in Denton TX.I worked with some guys from the original Tower King crew who knew their shit.I look back and think WTF was I doing back then. Thank the Lord I was around Men who knew what they were doing because I didn't have a clue.I hope all those guy's are safe today.
Excellent documentary & all labour & materials were made in America. What was the total cost, from clearing the damaged antenna to turning the new one on ? Awesome job you guys.
Very detailed video... covered a lot of the production for the materials and the techniques to erect the tower but left out how much it all ended up costing
Nice job - the people who participated in designing and constructing this new tower should be proud. I am left wondering though how much this project cost and how a seemingly small rural TV station could afford it?
Very cool. I has the opportunity watch the process of the erection of the 1,164' WDAF TV tower at 31st and Summit Streets in Kansas City Missouri in 1971 that replace the 724' tower erected in 1949.
Very impressive! Stick one of these in the UK and, from space, it would look like a dart stuck in a board. As the original tower was brought down by ice, is there any de-icing gear fitted? Not sure how they would do it, but one possibility would be to use hot air rising through the main tubes, with "booster" heaters at regular intervals on the way up. After al, the tower does not have to be hot, just a little over freezing. That said, my background in Automotive Engineering, so what do I knojw about building a TV Tower. THis project just shows just what a number of different firms working co operatively can do if given the chance. Well done, it makes my 50 foo ham radio mast look like the tooth pick it is!
What tubes? The only tube on the tower is the transmission line(s). The tower structure itself is made of all solid steel. Typically, towers are designed to be able to withstand the worst conditions in their location. So this tower should have enough strength to withstand the worst ice storm ever known in Eau Claire.
At 60,000 ft tower workers would need pressurized space suits. Even at that height, the transmit footprint would only be about 200 miles at best. I operate an earth station using communication satellites. LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites orbit at a range from 200-2,000 miles above the earth. Even at that height the footprint of range is limited. Not to mention it would never stand just due to the sheer weight and wind load. A 60,000 ft tower is beyond impractical and completely impossible.
It's 2020 as O watch this video. I know that I have been without broadcast TV or Radio for over 5 years. Of course, at that time, 2011, I doubt that concern for Netflix and/or Amazon Prime Video could NOT have been imagined. But there you go!
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
I know that country and it is a life blood of the region. Not everyone wants to watch some cable/sat channel during a disaster that Sat's and cables are not working.
scott brandt, you're right... it does say that in the descriptions below the video and so definitely agree that it's not a free-standing structure if it has anything attached that's helping to keep it standing
FAA allows towers to remain unpainted if it is equipped with working type approved strobe lights. However, comma, the tower must remain in good condition - protected against corrosion, rust, etc. which is one of the purposes of painting a tower,
That is a great thing but was the steel made in the USA? I'm not sure how it is in The States but our steel industry (along with every other manufacturing industry) in Canada is a shell of what it once was in favor of cheaply made Chinese junk.
Before the tower fell I used to receive this signal! I had a older yagi antenna on my house, ever since the new antenna was up I haven’t gotten it back. And I really wish I did. And I know that they much have changed something I wonder if it’s because it switched to UHF and my antenna just wasn’t pointed right. I don’t know exactly
What a nice veiw seems like we should have 360 degree veiw cameras every 100ft going up it streaming the video like traffic cameras do but i suppose the data gathered from something like that even metorlogically wouldn't be valued enough still would be neat like having veiw from sears tower and other famous tall structures
100 percent correct - ATSC has so much latency and problems. Even in 2011 lots of people were watching online. Even in 2001 reading news online tower was co leased and its also creepy how media companies work together .
This is impressive and interesting to watch. Too bad Stainless closed the tower manufacturing facility in 2013 (and subsequently sold the rest of the business to FDH Velocitel.) Perhaps this was their last hurrah....?
If they applied under the original permit from '69 (which they said in the program), then they'd have to abide by the obligations of that permit...which was to have each 30' section painted.
@@uploadJ Towers such as this are purpose built. The reason for building this tower was to maximize/optimize the signal coverage area in keeping with the economics of the situation. The bragging rights are mere advertising hoopla. Valuable, to be sure, but not the reason for building.
re: "Towers such as this are purpose built. The reason for building this tower was to maximize/optimize the signal coverage" Funny man. You're explaining this simple sh*t to a radio engineer. Look again at the crap sentence the original poster in this comment thread wrote. WHY do you think I wrote "Wha? Maybe you're better at reading, approving "crap writing" than the rest of us are willing to put up with?
That was part of the environmental impact statement. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93956323 Cows orient themselves to the magnetic poles of the earth north-south. A strong transmitter such as this interferes with this ability and they had to enumerate the number potentially impacted. If you look at google earth shots of existing towers, you can notice that the cows are radially arrayed about the center where the tower is much like the Muslims genuflecting towards Mecca. Perhaps the electromagnetic waves stimulate some archaic bovine gland? @TheDopplegangster That was a sharp pickup. Didn't even notice. Thanks. ( I guess that's considered Wisconsin humor?)
my question is if they were back on cable why did nt they just go to cable in the past and just not use the tower . i suppose because they still wanted the signal to get out farther on the air. but even that could of been done by satellite uplink which today is probably cheaper and safer. i gis they had the permitt to rebuild so they spent alot of money.
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I was on this tower, swapping a light which burn out to be hoisted up the day Wako burnt down, and again the day OJ was found Innocent....(Same light) It was solid and well built. Lightly built by today standards ( 1966 54 years ago). However Mother Nature had her hand in it like the WOLX tower (Baraboo WI) built 1948-9. Which fell for the same reasons New Year Eve 1997. This 9 foot face 4 sided tower had a similar full facial icing issue due to fog from the river drifting up on the colder steel structure. Glad know one was hurt. Job well done Crew.
Very well done!
I am an old retired TV Tech. Hired by WFMY-TV in 1975, as a Master Control operator, in the Engineering Dept, while I finished my Degree. In 1980, the mandate came down, to build a 2,000 ft. tower. It took 18 months to get all the permits, buy the land and get the tower set and the antenna set. That was a monster for central NC.
I know the feeling when the switch is flipped for the first time.
The design, build and installation of the new 2000 foot tower is a tribute to American ingenuity and team work. The new Harris UHF transmitters are very much state of the art and in combination with the new tower and antennas, should provide many years of service to the public.
i use to live in Apex nc and could get wfmy ch 2 all day long in 1992-1995 before moving .. nice strong signal.
I finally logged WFMY-TV from my Michigan QTH in the spring of 2009 -during the "nightlight phase" after regular analog TV had stopped.
@@1L6E6VHF when I moved to Apex NC I logged a channel 35 from virginia.. That same night I watched a tv station at 1am from atlanta GA on channel 20.. Those were the days..
Amazing documentation and narration. I have built towers for 20 years. I found very informative information that I did not know so, thank you for this masterpiece.
This was a very big job and the people who worked on this Tower should be very proud! The Documentary and Engineering were the very best, Excellent job!
Its amazing that we are able to make strong/stable towers at such heights. Its great to see all American labor and steel being used for it.
Uh, it collapsed so no it’s not that amazing.
@@rudybigboote3883 Yeah, and they rebuilt it... and it hasn't fallen yet.
@@CreeseDF What the hell are you so defensive about? Did it fall? YES IT DID!
@@rudybigboote3883 Yeah, and is it gonna fall again? NO IT ISN'T
@@rudybigboote3883 Hmmm, let's read your comment again, shall we? "What the hell are you so defensive about? Did it fall? YES IT DID!" I'm not crying about it, you are. seems like you're the defensive one.
Took me 2 years to put up a 40' tower and 16' beam antenna, but I only had myself and not a crew. I applaud these guys. 40' up in the air scares the poop out of me.
On2wls I know what you mean, when I was a teenager, I put up a 30-ft tower, plus guy ropes for a 12-ft dipole and beam for when I was on the CB rigs. That took me about 6-months to design and work out how to do it for all-weather construction. And yes it was just me and my brother, but still we thought it was like a huge job to do. We had to put concrete anchor points into the backyard.
Funnily enough I always wonder what happened with that antenna. The new owner of the property probably thought oh geez this has got to come down.
Shit, bro --- I once climbed up a 15 foot tower to adjust my OTA antenna and I was crapping my undies LOL
this is a great video on the fabrication of the tower, very detailed unlike most videos, really shows what goes into the fabrication, thanks for making and posting.....cheers
The way that they had documenting all the process from start to finish are amazing.
Excellent documentary .It has answered so many questions that I had regarding the construction of these superstructures.
I'm amazed at all the steel that went into this structure. I cannot imagine how much downward force is being exerted on the base foundation.... there's the weight of the steel in the structure, the weight of the antenna at the top, and the weight of the cabling and signal conduits and the weight and force of the heavy guy wires pulling down to keep the antenna upright!!!! That base is supporting a LOT!!! Anyone have any numbers on all of the combined weight? I'd bet that the penny they placed under the first base piece is nothing but a paper-thin wafer.
IF I recall... the tower itself weighs about 1,000,000 pounds
Awesome video. I love how everyone helped. I really love how everything was made in the USA. I really wish we could go back to everything made in the USA
I could not physically/mentally do this kind of work. (Highest I ever got as a carpenter was 40 feet off the ground walking plate on walls. Hated it.). The depth of expertise, the long tradition of manufacturing, and the sheer scale of production is amazing.
Great work by all involved in the industry to get the new tower built. And great applause to those other stations that came to help get them back on the air quickly in time of need, that is what America should be about!
In Japan, all TV stations are built together in the mountains. Nowadays, there is Tokyo Sky Tree, but in the 1960s, the optimum height of the TV tower was around 250 meters in areas without high mountains. I also wanted Japan to standardize on 600 meters.
I was living in this area when that tower fell. WEAU and Waxx 104 were the two primary stations I watched and listened to. I was amazed at how fast the new tower went up.
I’ve done a bit of broadcast radio work here, fantastic documentary, and insane work schedule to get all that put back together, kudos and congratulations
There was a tower in Poland that was the world's tallest ,after it collapsed during a maintenance accident the Poles said they went from world's tallest to the world's longest tower .
OLD TOWER:😵
NEW TOWER:😀
That was an outstanding video detailing the entire event, from the disasterous collapse and cleanup to the production of the new tower and all it's components. What an outstanding job all the people involved did to make this renovation a success in record time. Erecting a structure such as this is a difficult and dangerous job. My compliments to all those who were involved. I know something about tower erection, even though the tower erected for me was a 120 foot motorized extendable section Amateur Radio tower. There was so much civil engineering and construction work on the base alone it's amazing. Then there is the part where the tower itself is lifted into place, leveled and bolted down....My neighbors always had a show to watch of all the construction equipment that was used to erect a tower came into play....Even that was a hell of a project...LoL N2YWI
Excellent broadcast. 25+ years in the broadcast tower industry with Central, ERI and Dielectric/SPX.
I was using a lift the other day that got me up about 40 feet. It was terrifying. This is unimaginable.
Great video, very well done. Makes my little 40 foot Rohn 25 tower feel pretty puny though....
GeckoProductions That’s what I thought
Lol. Your comment was funny. Thanks
Call Stainless LLC. They will help you 🗼
I'm still in the planning phase of putting up a 30' Rohn tower. Hopefully by next summer.
Great, detailed, documentary! Retired TWR rigger. Makes You Tube worth while!
I love TWR Beacons. Good job man.
Now if only they could find programs worth watching I don’t even try watching television anymore and cut off my satellite connection to expensive for all the junk programming
Very true --- I think by 2040 there won't be a single over-the-air station left --- it will all be digital streaming
Yeppers.
The tv industry is killing themselves with so many commercials. The commercial breaks come so often and last so long you forget what you was watching. The reason I am seeing this is I look at videos on the computer. They are beginning to kill themselves with commercials too. I have never been much of a reader, however i read a lot now. Also magazines are nothing but commercials and the industry can't figure out why they are going down the tubes. DUH.
@@danielheartsill4269 and in the internet, is the same worse ad cancer
I was glued to every second. I found nd shit like thus fascinating!!
Odd, those cable reels had 'Bethlehem Strand' painted on them....Bethlehem Steel has been out of business since 2003. Must have been reused. When going to college, I worked at the Nelson Company during the summer, where we made many of those big cable reels. I later worked for Bethlehem Steel before it went under.
This is such a wonderful video
i agree
amazing shame they cant have heattng elements inside the main structure what brilliant metal workers
My God that was a very sad day...I’ll never forget where I was, and doing when that tower came down..It truly changed our lives, and it took a long time to get back to some normalcy..
Very Interesting documentary! Curious though; all said and done, what was the bottom line total for the entire project?
Good question. Can't they put us in the ballpark.. ya know to see if I'm in the market for a new tower.
I’m always, taking the piss out of Americans, but this was a phenomenal undertaking 🙌🏻👏🏻 I cant express myself enough to all the people involved in this project....well done.
That just shows how ignorant you are.
Got my feet wet working for Pat and Don when they were in Cedar Hill TX. I helped build and stack a 2000 footer in Denton TX.I worked with some guys from the original Tower King crew who knew their shit.I look back and think WTF was I doing back then. Thank the Lord I was around Men who knew what they were doing because I didn't have a clue.I hope all those guy's are safe today.
Who'd you work for? Kevin Barber?
Excellent documentary & all labour & materials were made in America.
What was the total cost, from clearing the damaged antenna to turning the new one on ?
Awesome job you guys.
This was absolutely fascinating! Very well done documentary! This makes me so proud to be an American! American ingenuity at work!
I still watch this
Very detailed video... covered a lot of the production for the materials and the techniques to erect the tower but left out how much it all ended up costing
This was very interesting. Thanks for video
That was fun to watch! Thanks!!
Nice job - the people who participated in designing and constructing this new tower should be proud. I am left wondering though how much this project cost and how a seemingly small rural TV station could afford it?
Very cool. I has the opportunity watch the process of the erection of the 1,164' WDAF TV tower at 31st and Summit Streets in Kansas City Missouri in 1971 that replace the 724' tower erected in 1949.
... and in 2013, everybody switched to Netflix.
Very impressive! Stick one of these in the UK and, from space, it would look like a dart stuck in a board. As the original tower was brought down by ice, is there any de-icing gear fitted? Not sure how they would do it, but one possibility would be to use hot air rising through the main tubes, with "booster" heaters at regular intervals on the way up. After al, the tower does not have to be hot, just a little over freezing. That said, my background in Automotive Engineering, so what do I knojw about building a TV Tower. THis project just shows just what a number of different firms working co operatively can do if given the chance. Well done, it makes my 50 foo ham radio mast look like the tooth pick it is!
What tubes? The only tube on the tower is the transmission line(s). The tower structure itself is made of all solid steel. Typically, towers are designed to be able to withstand the worst conditions in their location. So this tower should have enough strength to withstand the worst ice storm ever known in Eau Claire.
there i am wow i cant believe i found this video holy crap 9.24 i miss building towers!
23:23 good thing you're at a digital instead of analog on the analog transmitters were high dollar babies
Curious how much did the whole project cost? $20,000,000.00 + or _?
Very well-done episode, EXCELLENT.
They need to construct some 60.000-foot cell phone towers.
it would be interesting to see how such a tower would do in the 300 mph jet stream
At 60,000 ft tower workers would need pressurized space suits. Even at that height, the transmit footprint would only be about 200 miles at best.
I operate an earth station using communication satellites. LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites orbit at a range from 200-2,000 miles above the earth. Even at that height the footprint of range is limited. Not to mention it would never stand just due to the sheer weight and wind load. A 60,000 ft tower is beyond impractical and completely impossible.
Great project, but television ain't worth watching anymore.
Imagine, all that great technology to bombard us with stupid commercials.
I haven't watched TV in over three years. Don't miss it.
RUclips has captured a good deal of the viewship..
I remember that winter night cold freezing rain windy.
It's 2020 as O watch this video. I know that I have been without broadcast TV or Radio for over 5 years. Of course, at that time, 2011, I doubt that concern for Netflix and/or Amazon Prime Video could NOT have been imagined. But there you go!
Long live and God bless american workers.
thank you Canada for the new FM transmitter
If they want to broadcast something worth watching, broadcast this video.
l would have liked to see how they attached the support wires as heavy as they were.
Wonder what that little tower cost?
So what did they do different to the new tower to keep it from succumbing to the same fate as the old tower?
Smeared the whole tower with grease so the ice wouldn't stick 😁
Among the changes / upgrade.... thicker steel *about 7 1/2 inch diameter. more bolts at junction point, 6 instead of 3.
Very cool story.
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
I know that country and it is a life blood of the region. Not everyone wants to watch some cable/sat channel during a disaster that Sat's and cables are not working.
probably no unions were involved to get it done in a year
This was not a free standing tower if it had guy wires.
Ted Smith guy wires are required for any tower like this.
QUIBBLER . !!
Not here to argue but just wasn't sure if it even said in this video that it was a free-standing tower
RUclips description says, "The largest free-standing structure east of the Mississippi..."
scott brandt,
you're right... it does say that in the descriptions below the video and so definitely agree that it's not a free-standing structure if it has anything attached that's helping to keep it standing
I didn't know anyone still used UHF.
Anyone who willingly trades a VHF signal for a UHF signal is crazy!!!
It was probably something they were going to have to change at some point, and it made sense to do it then.
There’s a tower in Bettendorf, Ia. that’s 1400’ tall. It’s galvanized, but not pained. I don’t think they paint towers with strobe lights.
FAA allows towers to remain unpainted if it is equipped with working type approved strobe lights. However, comma, the tower must remain in good condition - protected against corrosion, rust, etc. which is one of the purposes of painting a tower,
These wire rope guys are awesome in what and how they make guy lines and chokers...
And the best part it was made all here in the USA. People don’t think about these things.
That is a great thing but was the steel made in the USA? I'm not sure how it is in The States but our steel industry (along with every other manufacturing industry) in Canada is a shell of what it once was in favor of cheaply made Chinese junk.
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Very entertaining video. Did I see a pair of channel lock pliers at 22:51?
Before the tower fell I used to receive this signal! I had a older yagi antenna on my house, ever since the new antenna was up I haven’t gotten it back. And I really wish I did. And I know that they much have changed something I wonder if it’s because it switched to UHF and my antenna just wasn’t pointed right. I don’t know exactly
Great video
What a nice veiw seems like we should have 360 degree veiw cameras every 100ft going up it streaming the video like traffic cameras do but i suppose the data gathered from something like that even metorlogically wouldn't be valued enough still would be neat like having veiw from sears tower and other famous tall structures
With affordable satellite dishes and cable, why is a broadcast TV tower even necessary? Are people really watching TV with rabbit ears in 2020?
100 percent correct - ATSC has so much latency and problems. Even in 2011 lots of people were watching online. Even in 2001 reading news online tower was co leased and its also creepy how media companies work together .
Yes they are. Many people are pulling the plug on cable and going back to OTA TV. I switched back in 2011.
Now that’s pride !
Interesting to note, 1:05 the byline name of the person who wrote the newspaper article was the father of Senator Amy Klobuchar.
Very good indeed.👍
It might be cheaper if they went to a geosynchronous satellite instead of a big tower that will come down again...imho
I work amateur satellites and I could write a thesis on why that wouldn't be better.
It's mighty funny it went off the air in 2012 👀🤔🤫
I remember! 👍
What taller than the empire state building. Wow
Any Ham repeaters on the tower at the time of collapse?
So the tower just collapsed?
Surprised Phillystran wasn't utilized for guying.
You got to be kidding.
This is impressive and interesting to watch. Too bad Stainless closed the tower manufacturing facility in 2013 (and subsequently sold the rest of the business to FDH Velocitel.) Perhaps this was their last hurrah....?
Stainless is and has been open for business. I work there now
I once saw a hot dip galvanised turn to shit because the metal warped and bent slightly.
now to find a group of guys that are brave enough to go up and bolt it together
Brave is easy, the stamina and endurance to climb that far is the hard part.
I worked at a strand plant for a few years. It was hot and shitty.
Was there an insurance pay-out on the loss of the original tower or did the owners have to finance the complete replacement?
Anyone putting up a tower such as this has liability, indemnity and replacement insurance to be sure.
How does it go up in under a year?💲💲💲💲💲
10:29 well I mean it looks good on the blueprint here I'm looking right at it you know I don't know why you're you know 2 1/2 in out of on the bolt
5:01 #over a million dollars a minute yeah I'd say we have to figure something out real quick
Great story. These structures are not required to have paint if they are equipped with strobe lights. Less maintenance.
True, but not nearly as pretty. :-(
If they applied under the original permit from '69 (which they said in the program), then they'd have to abide by the obligations of that permit...which was to have each 30' section painted.
This is why you don’t build a tall tower trying to compete with others. You need to build a tower fit for all weather.
Wha?
@@uploadJ Towers such as this are purpose built. The reason for building this tower was to maximize/optimize the signal coverage area in keeping with the economics of the situation. The bragging rights are mere advertising hoopla. Valuable, to be sure, but not the reason for building.
re: "Towers such as this are purpose built. The reason for building this tower was to maximize/optimize the signal coverage"
Funny man. You're explaining this simple sh*t to a radio engineer. Look again at the crap sentence the original poster in this comment thread wrote. WHY do you think I wrote "Wha? Maybe you're better at reading, approving "crap writing" than the rest of us are willing to put up with?
MADE PROUDLY in the USA...yes WE can. Great job to ALL!
I read somewhere that it's not the height that needs respect but gravity....
Americans, doing what we do best, working to make it happen!
We just need to get rid of Commie Trump and we can be a truly great country again
build me a 60 foot cb tower.
Robert Rockwell ...fab one up, and get a JLG...Boom basket...
Just mount a fiber glass base station antenna to the top of that structure
0:40 - Cows. Cows are important. Networks forget about Cows these days. Sad.
200,000 cows. That's a lot of beef!
That was part of the environmental impact statement.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93956323
Cows orient themselves to the magnetic poles of the earth north-south. A strong transmitter such as this interferes with this ability and they had to enumerate the number potentially impacted. If you look at google earth shots of existing towers, you can notice that the cows are radially arrayed about the center where the tower is much like the Muslims genuflecting towards Mecca. Perhaps the electromagnetic waves stimulate some archaic bovine gland?
@TheDopplegangster That was a sharp pickup. Didn't even notice. Thanks. ( I guess that's considered Wisconsin humor?)
my question is if they were back on cable why did nt they just go to cable in the past and just not use the tower . i suppose because they still wanted the signal to get out farther on the air. but even that could of been done by satellite uplink which today is probably cheaper and safer. i gis they had the permitt to rebuild so they spent alot of money.
Many rural people do not have access to reliable internet, much less afford it.
Btw. Your time capsule page is '404'
Sadly the project was discontinued. Thank you for watching!
Why not use the Erickson sky crane ?
Cost, they cost $5,000 and hour, you only use that in hard to access locations.
Does anyone know what it cost? My guess: 30 million; probably way off.
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