Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jack Dully, who shares the following video of a crew replacing a TV station antenna on top of a 1,500 foot tower.
Fair warning: if you’re afraid of heights this might make you weak in the knees!
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I don’t know what they’re paying these guys but its not enough.
Wouldn’t it was better to use that heli and crew to put an HF antenna and rotor up there?
A fresh video on the same topic from Poland 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3o2F_koIs
Operator had to exchange antenna system, because we are preparing to migration from DVB-T to DVB-T2 and channel re-framing at the same time (to free some band to mobile services).
The one pilot two rotors heli is the cool thing here.
That pilot must be top notch.
There’s a 600ft American Tower owned structure just 1 mile from my back yard. That tower now sits empty, but did have the array from the ION TV Network local channels. On some maintenance Sunday nights, I could see LED flash lights moving up and down that tower and even monitor them on 151.625MHz, (One of the LMR ‘Dot’ FREQ’s.), talking from climbing to ground crews. What a waste to see that empty, but that’s American Tower for you, pricing their rates so that they are outrageous for most potential tower space could-be renters.
This vid puts into perspective the issues surrounding channel reassignments, upgrades, etc.
I’m not sure that’s a good video to watch early in the morning – parts of it are rather nauseating!