[NLRS] antenna work on Shoreview Tower?

[Chris Elmquist]

I can finally sleep at night now as I believe I've figured out what's
going on on the towers.

Per this discussion,

http://www.spectrumgateway.com/600-mhz-spectrum

We discover that KSTC TV "Channel 45" on RF channel 45 "got" to relocate
to RF channel 30 in "Phase 4".  The 600 MHz band is being reallocated to
cellular and so TV stations there have to vacate.  This suggests they
need a new antenna for 566-572 MHz instead of their old one covering
656-662 MHz.

I've been watching them take sections of feedline, which look like roughly
20' sections as large as sewer pipe being hauled up in the basket and
installed inside the tower.  I haven't yet seen an antenna go up although
I might have missed it when I was traveling a couple weeks ago.  Doesn't
look like anything new on the north side at 1000' but there might be.

Big project antenna project in any case!

73, Chris N0JCF

On Tuesday (06/18/2019 at 03:06PM -0500), Chris Elmquist wrote:
> 
> Are there any guys in the group that work for Telefarm, MN at the
> Shoreview towers by chance?
> 
> I work in a building just two blocks west of the two side-by-side towers
> and with intense curiosity, have been watching for several weeks as they
> have been running a basket on a pulley up the side of the west-most tower
> on County Rd F-- they've been at it off and on for at least three weeks.
> 
> Today, there is a huge antenna array in the basket and at least three
> workers climbing all around the tower (they look like ants from the
> ground) in the vacinity of the basket and antenna.
> 
> Finally makes sense that they're hoisting a new thing into place and
> it looks like it goes at about the 1000' point on the north side, where
> they were working in the basket yesterday.
> 
> Was hoping we might get some more clues about what's going on if we can.
> 
> 73, Chris N0JCF
> 
> -- 
> Chris Elmquist

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Chris Elmquist