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In 1963, VOA Radio took over, ending the lease with Crosley Corp. Due to changing technologies, transmissions shifted to satellites. The station was closed November 14, 1994, and the antenna towers brought down over the winter of 1997-1998. Through the Federal Lands to Parks Program, the site was divided into several uses.
Although most radio and TV stations are in fierce competition with each other in their broadcast markets, they will often locate their broadcasting antennas very near each other, and in some cases, will even share land or towers with each other, in the interests of space, land availability, and the cost of putting a transmission building on top ...
Two small towers may be less intrusive, visually, than one big one, especially if they look identical. Towers look less ugly if they and the antennas mounted on them appear symmetrical. Concrete towers can be built with aesthetic design considerations. They are sometimes built in prominent places and include observation decks or restaurants.
The following is a list of radio stations in the United States that are authorized to run 50 kW (50,000 watts) of power. This is the highest power authorized to any AM station in the United States. Power Legend: U=unlimited time, D=daytime power, N=nighttime power, CH= critical hours power.
World Radio Tower Santa Maria: Santa Maria, Texas: Guyed Mast 360.3 m Richland Towers Tower Atlanta: Atlanta, Georgia Guyed Mast 360 m Trinity Broadcasting Tower Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Guyed Mast 359.1 m Prairie Public Broadcasting Tower: Amenia, North Dakota: Guyed Mast 358.7 m Cox Radio Tower Security: Security, Texas: Guyed Mast ...
Repeater frequency sets are known as "repeater pairs", and in the ham radio community most follow ad hoc standards for the difference between the two frequencies, commonly called the offset. In the USA two-meter band, the standard offset is 600 kHz (0.6 MHz), but sometimes unusual offsets, referred to as oddball splits, are used. The actual ...
Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communications. [1]
The tower dominated the Columbus skyline, which did not see significant high-rise construction until the 1960s, [34] though there was at least one major attempt to build another high-rise in the city in 1953. [35] The Lincoln-LeVeque Tower was the only building in Columbus taller than 300 feet (91 m) until 1962. [9]