{"id":50399,"date":"2021-09-29T06:39:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=50399"},"modified":"2021-09-29T06:53:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:53:29","slug":"video-tower-crew-replaces-tv-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/video-tower-crew-replaces-tv-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Tower crew replaces TV antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TV-Tower-replacement-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50400\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TV-Tower-replacement-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TV-Tower-replacement-1.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TV-Tower-replacement-1-300x187.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TV-Tower-replacement-1-768x479.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TV-Tower-replacement-1-624x389.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jack Dully, who shares the following video of a crew replacing a TV station antenna on top of a 1,500 foot tower.<\/p>\n<p>Fair warning: if you&#8217;re afraid of heights this might make you weak in the knees!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pitEq8gjNj8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pitEq8gjNj8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;re afraid of heights this might make you weak in the knees! Click here to view on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7349,304],"tags":[1354,1355,3298],"class_list":["post-50399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv","category-videos","tag-climbing-radio-tower","tag-radio-towers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-d6T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54911,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/radio-waves-bell-labs-horn-antenna-at-risk-tuckerton-tower-the-warsaw-radio-mast-and-end-of-am-car-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":50399,"position":0},"title":"Radio Waves: Bell Labs Horn Antenna At Risk, Tuckerton Tower, The Warsaw Radio Mast, and End of AM Car Radio?","author":"Thomas","date":"December 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.\u00a0 A special thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, for these news tips! 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