[50mhz] For Sale - TV News Truck w/ Telescoping Mast

[Howard Bingham]

At 09:40 PM 8/21/2010, Tom E wrote:

>Yea, untrained idiots forcing a local tv station to use a more 
>expensive transmission method beacuse the truck operators are too 
>lazy to look up and live.
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In Houston IIRC the local ABC affiliate has 5 - 6 microwave 
transmissions sites in addition to microwave relay capacity on their 
helicopter, so why use gas guzzling vans to run around town all day, 
when a smaller crossover SUV can do the job at half the cost..

Cell phone video is improving in quality too, some on the ground 
reporters are covering breaking events with cell phones before vans 
can arrive on the scene.  The helicopters used only for major events, 
but with a city of the size of Houston, with city limits that run 50 
mils from one side of town to the other, the media use every means 
available, including remote roof top TV cameras on office buildings & 
cameras along the freeways that all the TV stations have access to 
(See: www.houstontranstar.org/  & look under Houston Traffic 
Conditions for Real Time Traffic Map & click Traffic cameras, these 
operate 24/7, the website only offers freeze frames that are updated 
every 15 minutes, while the TV stations get higher resolution real 
time video.).

Howard Bingham

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> > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:40:08 -0500
> > To: SixClub at mailman.qth.net; smirk at mailman.qth.net; 50mhz at mailman.qth.net
> > From: ke5apj at earthlink.net
> > Subject: Re: [50mhz] For Sale - TV News Truck w/ Telescoping Mast
> >
> > TV stations in Houston are switching to lower roof mounted satellite
> > disk's as some had problems with telescoping masts near POWER LINES
> > resulting in near catastrophes..!
> >
> > A member of one club I belong to, loans his to the club for Field Day
> > in addition to using as a relay station for public service events..
> > His is a 3/4 ton van, came with racks for TV equipment [minus the
> > equipment], but with complete telescoping mast that must go 30 ft. in
> > air, the van while well maintained, is a gas hog..
> >
> > Howard Bingham
> > KE5APJ
> >
> > ==
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